Railwaymodeler's Computer Site

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Ihave my own site, www.computersystemrebuild.com that I use for my computer sales work here in the Chicago area.

I was wanting to know what you all thought of the design. I know that as of the last update, the link button for the shopping cart got accidentally changed. (It should show 'Shopping', NOT shop.html).

This is probably because being a niche computer field, the site has to be low budget, and I use a freeware shopping cart utility from download.com, and it does not seem to import into frontpage as it should (or as it is advertised as it should). Usually this also means I have to fix the images every time I update the shopping cart, so updates are only done once every couple weeks (for my own sanity reasons)

What I would like to do someday, is barcode all the machines, and have some interface between them and the site, so that if I scan the barcode (I already have the hardware for this) it will bring up the info on that machine, and I can either add or remove it from the site automatically. A friend and I are toying with the idea right now. Too lofty, maybe, but it sure would be efficent.

Anyway, let me know if you like the layout and general design too.
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Actually I can't help feel there is some connection between the design of this site and one of the Transport Tycoon homepages I visited at some point... I can't seem to find the link so that I can say which one...
Other than that it looks good, but also I stumbled across some sale-pitches in there. The way you describe this:

In this system you have a powerful 600 megahertz Celeron processor...

I stumbled across those words a couple of times and couldn't help thinking ... how powerful does a computer have to be to be called powerful...?
I mean I'm running a 1500+ machine and some of the newer games I can't run properly...
Other than that the design looks fine. Not mindblowing but functional.

It could be spiced up a bit more, but also the theme of the site is not hardcore-hi-tech and such. It is, reliable, functional, and prizefriendly... You come of showing that I think.

Hope this isn't to harsh. Hope you see it as functional feedback.
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Post by Maz »

Design is clear and good. Colors are neutral and non disturbing :)

I personally would have used a bit stronger (bolder perhaps) font to make some chapters to pop out, but generally I liked the design.

For adverticing purposes I would probably add Doctype to the source as well as Description/Abstract metatags.

Thumbs up mate :)
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@Chroelle,

I actually take a lot of what you say as a compliement. Bear in mind that it is not just a sales site, but a sales aide and tool for local sales that will be completed in person, and in a poorer area like around here, many people still have Pentium I systems, and would like something, anything, better. I honestly can't recommend a P4 for those with limited budgets, due to the fact that I have to repair a LOT, and I mean a LOT of P4s with fried boards, CPUs, or PSUs (eMachines are very bad for the PSUs I find, Dell makes bad boards, with bad capacitors on them.) P3s and equivelent Celerons, on the other hand, are very stable, and with Windows 2000 on them, will last a long, long time.

I opted for a simple, clean design for my site, I didn't want it to look too high tech or anything. I felt the blocks theme looked great.

Thanks for the (So far) functional review, that's what I was hoping for. I want it to reflect my product line, not fancy and all show, but steady and functional.
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