Is our home page too commercial looking?
June 28th, 2010
Hi,
I always find it a challenge to balance the aesthetic of the site, while still keeping it usable. On top of that, I don’t want to overload visitors with my sales pitch (for my video courses) … yet I still want to sell videos.
New Video Courses
This blog post itself is an example of that; I want to mention our new web design video training packages, but I also want to give you guys some useful information. So first, the useful information:
The Web ‘likes’ the soft sell.
That means that your product information should be interwoven with something useful or interesting. Pretty simple.
So back to our new home page with the rotating top banner .. pretty nifty stuff and easily done with JQuery … something we teach come to think of it!
So my question to you is, do you think our home page is becoming too commercial?
Thanks,
Stefan Mischook
www.killersites.com
To be honest the last thing I find this site is commercial. Somehow you’ve put the banners and commercial aspects in places that does not interfear much with the content.
If you compare this site with others offering similar products, I say here content comes first and the sales pitch comes second which is the opposite to other site.
Or it can be the fact that I don’t utlize the videos here and thus do not notice or get affected by the commercial aspects as much. Like say during the viewing hit the end and where a payment to get access is required.
Thanks for the feedback.
Stefan
I don’t think your website is too commercial. Surprising is that it requires the visitor to your homepage to scroll down.
In any case, I understand the material the way you present it, that’s great and that helps me to fulfill my long held wish to obtain some programming skills.
I don’t think it is at all. Clean, readable and to the point. I don’t like to have to sift through a bunch of sales pitch mumbo jumbo to find out what you offer, how much it is ( very fair I might add) and how to sign up. I do think the video links on the home page could be laid out a little better. More distinction separating each category, but then again, I am no expert which is why I am here.
Look forward to learning more. Thanks
Hi Mark,
I appreciate the kind words .. and we are always trying to improve with our top three design principles being:
1. Be simple.
2. Be practical.
3. Be concise.
If you can, please point out what video links are bugging you?
Thanks,
Stefan
KISS.
Keep It Simple Stupid
It’s an oldie but a goodie. We’re a web development company based in Windsor, Ontario Canada. We run into a couple scenarios. We run into a client who WANTS corporate and we run into clients who want EDGY. So it’s a bit of a catch 22. Every client has different wants, you need to be sure to listen to them very carefully… often times they don’t even know what they want and then once you are done they don’t like what you’ve done… then you’ve got a problem because they want to change look and feel and you have to change the whole thing. Be sure to set a cut off point and establish that point with the client and that any changes beyond that point are chargeable. Don’t do that and you’ll be sorry.
Just my 0.02.
I think your site is very clean and practical and all round easy to use.
Your site is very clean and very instructional. Fair price and no hidden commercial catch. Congratulations on your efforts.
Thanks.
Stefan