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My Websites are Hideous. Please Help.

needin4mation@gmail.com

2006-08-28, 6:40 pm

I don't know if it's because their mine, kind of like hearing your own
voice recorded, or what, but my websites are just plain hideous. Yeah,
people can use them and they do buy stuff, but only because of adwords
and clickthrus to affiliate merchants.

I know something like Craigslist is "deceptively simple," but my stuff,
for the genre that I am selling in, and in order to get people to come
back instead of relying on cookies at the merchant, just looks ugly.

I have programming skills and basic photoshop ability. I'm just
looking for a little help so as not be so plain. Sigh. Maybe adwords
is the best I can do. I have no real inventory. Why would they ever
come to me in the first place? Okay, enough feeling sorry for myself.
Any words of wisdom? Take a graphic arts course? Thanks.

Els

2006-08-28, 6:40 pm

needin4mation@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:

> I don't know if it's because their mine, kind of like hearing your own
> voice recorded, or what, but my websites are just plain hideous. Yeah,
> people can use them and they do buy stuff, but only because of adwords
> and clickthrus to affiliate merchants.
>
> I know something like Craigslist is "deceptively simple," but my stuff,
> for the genre that I am selling in, and in order to get people to come
> back instead of relying on cookies at the merchant, just looks ugly.
>
> I have programming skills and basic photoshop ability. I'm just
> looking for a little help so as not be so plain. Sigh. Maybe adwords
> is the best I can do. I have no real inventory. Why would they ever
> come to me in the first place? Okay, enough feeling sorry for myself.
> Any words of wisdom? Take a graphic arts course? Thanks.

Hire a designer?
Give a URL to get other people's opinions?

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Karl Groves

2006-08-28, 6:40 pm

needin4mation@XXXXXXXXXX wrote in news:1156779049.372340.286770
@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> I don't know if it's because their mine, kind of like hearing your own
> voice recorded, or what, but my websites are just plain hideous. Yeah,
> people can use them and they do buy stuff, but only because of adwords
> and clickthrus to affiliate merchants.
>
> I know something like Craigslist is "deceptively simple," but my stuff,
> for the genre that I am selling in, and in order to get people to come
> back instead of relying on cookies at the merchant, just looks ugly.
>
> I have programming skills and basic photoshop ability. I'm just
> looking for a little help so as not be so plain. Sigh. Maybe adwords
> is the best I can do. I have no real inventory. Why would they ever
> come to me in the first place? Okay, enough feeling sorry for myself.
> Any words of wisdom? Take a graphic arts course? Thanks.
>

Spend the money on a competent graphic designer. That's what I do. I can't
design anything attractive to save my life, but I can put it together once
someone else does the creative part!

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Karl Groves
www.karlcore.com

Swampy Bogtrotter

2006-08-28, 6:40 pm

needin4mation@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:
> I don't know if it's because their mine, kind of like hearing your own
> voice recorded, or what, but my websites are just plain hideous.
> Yeah, people can use them and they do buy stuff, but only because of
> adwords and clickthrus to affiliate merchants.
>
> I know something like Craigslist is "deceptively simple," but my
> stuff, for the genre that I am selling in, and in order to get people
> to come back instead of relying on cookies at the merchant, just
> looks ugly.
>
> I have programming skills and basic photoshop ability. I'm just
> looking for a little help so as not be so plain. Sigh. Maybe adwords
> is the best I can do. I have no real inventory. Why would they ever
> come to me in the first place? Okay, enough feeling sorry for myself.
> Any words of wisdom? Take a graphic arts course? Thanks.

I have no idea.....I can't find your website, and so can't suggest any
corrective course of action.....

Matt-the-Hoople

2006-08-28, 6:40 pm

Quoth in alt.www.webmaster

> I don't know if it's because their mine, kind of like hearing your own
> voice recorded, or what, but my websites are just plain hideous.

hmmm - URL?

without that, they will look just fine to most of us. ;-)

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