I'll even go one better and review the freaking site (joke on the freaking part ).

Well, aside from the mentioned sound, I find the site a little hard to follow. Not impossible at all if you take the time, but not immediately attention grabbing or pleasurable on my eyes.

The improvements I would suggest are:
the links on the top (home, contact us, etc..,) seem like they should be bigger to me. Also maybe some color differentiation or boxes. It's a little dry and boring. Anyway, some attention to that area would help, I think.

Also, the pics themselves (of the computers) should act as hyper-links.

There is something about the layout too that could be better. How, I couldn't really say unless I was moving things around myself and seeing how it worked. Maybe it's the text fonts.

But I really like the banner on top. I don't think it's too big and I like the animation and 3-d look.

ORIGINAL: papa2004



Lighten up a bit

did you miss my last two posts?
Already done!

Very nice looking websites, both of them. I get a headache from your forum avatar though. Very good presentation of your products and they seem to be very professionaly speced. If you start looking for things to do with your site to bring in more business, I'm sure the arguement will never stop.

To be frank Andy,

W3C isn't the big kid on the block you are making it out to be.

The "market" over ran the ivory tower a long time ago.

best regards,
mike


edit to add: just for grins check this out:

validate this forum page


I guess you'll be migrating to Reaper? ;-0

Hey, if you really want to have fun debating with those who try to validate validation show them this test:

Take the page source produced by the link I provided above. (or any page you want to validate) In other words, take the page source of the actual page produced by that W3.org server side validator application.

Take that page source and copy and paste it into the direct input tab at: http://validator.w3.org/

For "whatever" reason, the server will not process the actual link to the page in a recursive routine, so you have to use the Page Source - select all - copy - paste protocol I'm describing.


The page created BY w3.org has 160 ERRORS.

It might be a good idea to climb down from the ivory tower. :-)

Having said all that... I'm all for universal accessibility... I just don't see any reason to act like the white knight when this is a ubiquitous problem and these concerns should be prioritized for pressing needs like screen reader access to public library collections for the vision impaired rather than harassing a vendor who probably isn't selling too many video edit suites to access impaired citizens.

all the best,
mike

guys,
sandman has coalesed so please rather than bash him lets bash my sites please.

Andy,
the first 12 "errors" are not errors

the supposed missing close tags are there....

i didnt go past that many, only thing it found i agree with (in the first 12) is the use of "/>"
(left from a former employee who used to help with website stuff.)

i didnt ask for code help i asked for ideas about navigation and looks. however i would love someone to clean up my code...
i get tired of working, like to result only to find Opera or Mozilla didnt like the code..

i give to this forum all the time, i was asking for some help in return.

Sandman

thank you i agree any pic should be a link. i didnt do it in the past due to the blue/purple boarder HLs create however i found how to stop it.

and i have been playing with the color of the nav menu.
see this page for opinions

http://www.adkvideoediting.com/v4hd.cfm
notice the color change on mouse over. (green 2nd layer nav)

Scott!!!


i think your websites were pretty good, when it comes to navigation. Pictures are a pluss and can you click them so a bigger version pops up, then even better

I don't know if anyone has said it before because I didn't really feel like reading all the arguing here. However, the banner thingy on top with the sound to it, I absolutely hated that. I've never liked websites that makes a lot of music/noice unless it's a band website they can get away with it. In my opinnion anyway. Other than that, the sites were great. All I have to say

... and your company there looks pretty cool.


Marius

ORIGINAL: jcschild

thanks andy! isee now..

marius sound and flash now gone! thanks

Hi Scott!

I haven't read the whole thread but; the "FLASH Intro" at the Video-site is the best part?
Are going to take it away? That's crazy, and the man that made it have surely said the same already?


If the problem is just all about the “sound playing” have default “SOUND OFF “and add a button to get SOUND!


Just my two cents anyway...


Anyway have a nice weekend Scott. Do as you like!
The main thing is still navigation and that should always been clean and fast as it is already now.
Navigation = Great that you have icons on all products, it gets faster to navigate when you can see pictures of it; instead of text!

Regards
Freddie

ORIGINAL: thebiglongy
it is only you who seems dead set of filling the thread full of meaningless posts?

Ok you kinda redeemed yourself in previous couple of posts but tbh, it doesn't make up for the fact that you were viewed by many on here as a complete penis.

ummm, your post was pretty meaningless too....
as far as being a penis.....ehh sure, why not. but at least I gave up my crusade and joined the party. what more do you want? or do you have penis on the brain? can't help you there.....

And Scott, I like the green, but when you go to the sub links, it turns white and gets jumbled with the text on the page a bit. Do you see what i mean? And I would still like the boxes themselves to be either bigger or somehow more differentiated. And since it is all about your computers, I would put the computers part on top of the text. As it is, I had to scroll to see the computers on the bottom. And you are all about the computers right? So that should be what the site is about too. Just IMHO, of course.

ORIGINAL: sandman5000

Actually Scott, in all honesty, I think your site is really boring and dry. Not being a penis or anything. The content is there so it's really a matter of jazzing it up. I realize this is your competition, but have a look at this site:

http://www.audeum.com/

Notice the colors, the fonts, the navigation and the layout. All very dynamic and exciting. I would say, for me, your site looks like I'm going to be ordering parts for something industrial or like your machines are for factory use. While the audeum site looks more like something musicians would be more involved with. More rock and roll. No offense intended. Just giving the feedback....

I'm really not doing this to be contrarian...but...I don't agree. Flashy sites make me think it's more about the marketing than the product. Newegg vs Alienware for example. I agree with most of the other suggestions in this thread about simplifying and more pictures and pictures having links...but I always lean toward the practical vice the flashy. Obviously others will disagree. Just my .02.

ORIGINAL: jcschild

ORIGINAL: sandman5000

Actually Scott, in all honesty, I think your site is really boring and dry. Not being a penis or anything. The content is there so it's really a matter of jazzing it up. I realize this is your competition, but have a look at this site:

http://www.audeum.com/

Notice the colors, the fonts, the navigation and the layout. All very dynamic and exciting. I would say, for me, your site looks like I'm going to be ordering parts for something industrial or like your machines are for factory use. While the audeum site looks more like something musicians would be more involved with. More rock and roll. No offense intended. Just giving the feedback....

looks more like a gaming website the header part (should have seen his older one ugly) much better now.

we have had the black background and the "bubble blocks" (eased edges in tables)
and all i heard was "looks like a gmaing site not a professional site.

go to ANY large company, Dell, Sweetwater, HP, Intel etc etc no one has a black background

i like the color change on the nav menu

see our gaming site for that www.adkgaming.com

again thanks for the comments

I like the gaming site nav/header a lot better! To me the audeum site looks way more professional. And the Alien ware vrs newegg is a good example. the newegg one is so boring! practical, but boring. It's funny but I seem to be on the opposite side of the way people around here think. maybe I should switch to cubase on a mac!

oh well, just my opinions anyway. hope you get it all sorted out scott.

ORIGINAL: jcschild

not a professional site.

go to ANY large company, Dell, Sweetwater, HP, Intel etc etc no one has a black background

So let say if Dell, Sweetwater, HP and Intel get a moderna layout and start using black background, then it's suddenly okay & professional to use it????


?

Like Picasso and Van Gogh ask anyone what kind of paintings they should make?

I think its another way around! Real Artists & Professionals are not afraid making new things....
Amateurs making "look a like" & replika


Professional? No black background? This IS Professional!!!!!!!!!! U can't get it more Professional! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
http://v5.2advanced.com/index.php


I like it as it is already Scott, but wouldn't mind if you jazz it up a little bit!




Regards
Freddie

LOL i love 2advanced stuff they have always been who i drooled after. got about 30-50K?
its about what it takes to hire them.

and after that the fact remains while i would think it cool (still a gamer at heart) and a few others would as well, its still not professional.

Boxxtech (15 mil a yr) had a killer flash animation on thier site. its now gone.


alienware is like the only professional site left with flash that i know. and who are they going after? gamers...

trust me i would love an overkill flash site, and i am leaving the video sites flash alone.
but any marketing/website person i have every taked to has said what Mike said.... too flashy and takes up real estate.

LOL can you image if i had posted this on gear slutz?
or KVR?
1 KFD coming your way.

ORIGINAL: jcschild
yet we get the "i didnt know you sold that" (apple, Mixers, UADs, Mics, Studio Monitors etc) from our existing clients.

If this is the most important issue, I would suggest that the right hand column on the front page was headed "Studio Gear" with a few key items or subsections shown (with images) like the left column does for the computers. This should show that "Pro Audio Computers" and "Studio Gear" are on an even footing. Then you could put the "Apple Value Added Reseller" below the other computer items (to continue the computer theme) and have the "Why choose ADK" box below the "Studio Gear" section.

This would make the whole page a bit longer. I don't know if that is an issue or not. Making the top banner less tall would save some space.

UnderTow