Portable Boat Lift

[Safety First]

Please take a look at my website and let me know what you think about my product, the Portable Boat Lift, or the website.
Your questions and comments are greatly appreciated.
www.portableboatlift.com

[nukisen]

I do like the lift. Maybe you must take care to not let the stands fall to side.

About the webpage it is a little tough to open. Maybe you should decrease the resolution of the pages so they don´t opens this heavy.

If you want it to be able to look at you maybe are able to put up the full resolution pics by linking from the photoes instead.

The size of the you are able to shrink if you want then. It is also possible to have the size as they are and still got them well looking.

[Safety First]

Thanks for your feedback. The stands have large outriggers although they might not appear so in the photos. They are extremely stable. We've never had a problem with stability or any other problem for that matter. I take that back, one recurring complaint from all customers has been that once their friends see it they want to borrow it!
What kind of internet service do you have?
I have a few friends that have told me the site is slow as well.
If you'd like I can send you smaller, less resolution pictures and information.
Good luck with the job hunt, your CV is impressive.
Remember, we're all in the same boat.
Thanks again for your feedback.

[jim lee]

Loose the sound track. Music on www sites screams "tacky". Also it annoys many of the people you are trying to get interested in your product.

Your site loaded in less than a second for me. If people are having trouble with slow loads and they are using a pc, have them try Firefox for their browser. We had the same problem with with people using internet exploder on or site, firefox fixed it. (So did using a mac)

Good luck!

-jim lee

[Safety First]

Thanks Jim, I've been wrestling with the music/no music issue. It was recommended to me by another and I thought I would try it. I think it's a little too much too. I have IE but I get your site and 95% of sites up PDQ, within seconds at the most. I have read a little about Fire Fox and have been curious about what a Mac is all about for a while. It is not my fort and it’s hard for me to pick up on something new. I hunt and peck my way through the keyboard as well as all the technology out there. I am not a pro at Web Site Building, as you can see, but I could not wait any longer for the 5 or so builders I have hired over the past few years to fix, change, add, take away stuff I wanted, when I wanted, so I thought I'd give it a try myself. I hope it doesn’t hurt me.
Your site is very clean, very nice; I'll be going back and looking though it more thoroughly.
Thanks again

[nukisen]

Hi again Safety!
As my boat isn´t bigger then I am able to lift it by hand, I am not interested of the lift and don´t need to have your pictures for now.
Also I took a new look at the page this morning and found it opened quicker.
I did look at the pictures resolution and found them not very big. The sound I didn´t recognized as I always are using Sound off. Maybe this cause somtimes trouble for your page to load as the page also have to load even the sound, if this conection does trouble it is inconvenient how fast pc or wich browser you use. As it seems to load different speed.
Also I think it easier to sell the boatlifter then make people change their browser.

[jim lee]

Originally Posted by nukisen

I think it easier to sell the boatlifter then make people change their browser.

You know, he's absolutely correct here. I sometimes get the dog and the tail mixed up.

My site's completely built using the freebe www builder that came with my mac. Once you set it up to point to your ISP of choice, its just just drag and drop then click to publish.

You'll get it.

-jim lee

[Safety First]

Jim,
I changed the web site a little and would like to hear your thoughts about the layout and content.
Thanks

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

[nukisen]

Well done The page opens like a bliz.
Also this layout looks more profesional then it did before.

[Safety First]

Thanks for your reply Nukisen. I get by with a little help from my friends, oh I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends, from my friennnnnnds!
I appreciate the help and the comments.

Remember, we're all in the same damn boat!

[nukisen]

And let god save us as this mensioned boat was built by ourselves. Hahahaha

[Marco1]

Your product seems well thought. Your website requires to read pages of text.
No one does that.
Internet is instant, if I can not understand how your product works in 10 seconds, I am out of there.
So you need to have photos that give the idea at a glance 'in your face' as one opens the page. You can rattle along with explanations at your heart's content after as an option. First the pictures and they must be clear.

Remember what is clear for you that build the thing is not clear for me.
Some of the pictures of boats on your hoist if seen for the first time don't add much to the question mark. I had to look through a few pictures until I hit that little cruiser photographed sideways with the trailer coming out under it and then it hit me. Ah, that is how it works! A potential customer would have clicked off long ago.

I would have never gone that far unless you had asked for an opinion. If I open a website with TEXT, unless I am researching something I can not be bothered reading it. Too much camel dung around, and I believe I am not the only one.
Hope this helps.

Kind Regards
Marc

[Safety First]

Marco, thanks for taking the time and for giving me your thoughts. It's been hard for me to try to convey that the product exists let alone how to make the first impression last. I have actually stood in front of the Portable Boat Lift, demonstrating it, with a boat on it lifted up off the trailer and after five minutes of questions and answers I was still asked how deep of water it can go in. Even while right in front of people at a boat show they would stare at it with a kind of deer in the headlights look.

I like your ideas and I am going to try to make a change to the Home Page so Pictures that convey how it works come up first at the top and if someone wants to know more they can scroll down and read.

Thanks again

[nukisen]

Safety First!
If you are trying to sell your product why not make it an online-shop.
There is opensorce web-shops for free to set up.

Easier to get structure on a page like that.