atcomsystems.ca/forum Forums Computers & Programming Web Development New Website.

Looks better Derrick.

The matching color base is more appealing to the eye and more like all the other Facebook button you see on every other webpage. 👍🏻

Now if I could just get the owner of the business to not convince himself that he needs a ton of verbage on the site. He doesn't seem to understand that 65 percent of website viewing is on a phone or tablet not a pc and regardless of what device is being used, people don't care to read a lot don't want a written sermon, they just want to see and easily navigate the site. Some folks can't get away from the portrait aspect page with a lot of links, buttons and tabs. Please. This new site is composed of ten pages, eight are chained together (and I can easily change the order) by the act of scrolling, not any kind of menu button or tab. The point is that websites are becomming more like a commercial, the viewer doesn't get to choose what happens or what they see only if they want to see it, so if you want to keep em for the whole minute it better get their attention in the first ten seconds. Websites, even with some links, are becoming more and more of a commercial or billboard on the info highway. This is my rant for today.

Have your customer access the old site using their cellphone.

If that doesn't convince them take them out for coffee at your local busy coffeeshop and show them all the prople who are working with smart phones and are not bringing in their towers and monitors.

My three favorite website that use Squarespace are:

Thomas Heaton
Brendan van Son
Greg Snell

Simple clean and you don't have to scroll for five minutes to finish the page.

I just had a thought that might help the first page. What if you grouped the images into a slide show (or two) that way the foot print is only the side of one image?

Is it possible to LOCK the "Home-Contact-FAQ-Review" so it doesn't disappear while scrolling? Ctrl+Home is too hard for most people to remember.

There is a floating "top" button down in the right corner. It appears on every page. The owner approved of the site today and wants me to build another one as well. We shortened the site, removed the whole about us page, and changed the order of others, too many scrolls with that long business paragraph. Oh by the way, I read some internet advertising statistics yesterday, and one of the things said was 'you have three seconds to grab their attention or they move on to some other site"

I like the review page much better. Nice and Clean...just like pure water.

Have you ever seen the movie Amadeus? A cluttered page can be like:

MOZART: "So then you like it? You really like it, Your Majesty?"

EMPEROR: "Of course I do. It's very good. Of course now and then - just now and then - it gets a touch elaborate."

MOZART: "What do you mean, Sire?"

EMPEROR: "Well, I mean occasionally it seems to have, how shall one say? [he stops in difficulty; turning to Orsini-Rosenberg] How shall one say, Director?"

ORSINI-ROSENBERG: "Too many notes, Your Majesty?"

EMPEROR: "Exactly. Very well put. Too many notes."


Good luck with your next endevour. You know where to get Constructive Criticism.

Thanks Dean, great analogy.