catering website

[LittleRibbie]

Well we have finished our new Catering BBQ web site. Would love to have your opinions..easy to navigate ? understand ? do things sound exciting?...things like that. I have noticed appetizer is wrong/spelling and there maybe a few other things. What do you all think...be honest...pretend you are the customer LOL If you see any spelling errors dont be afraid to point them out...my eyes are going buggy!!

!! thanks for looking

southernaccentscatering.com

 

[billiethekid40]

I really like the website.

- Really like how it reads like a restaurant menu, not too much detail or clutter.

A few turn offs for me:

-Really HATE websites with music, especially if they don't have a very visible way to mute it.

- Not sure I really like the home page "discussing buisness" instead of introducing your company. Perhaps a seperate page for terms and conditions of service would be better and use this space to tell us a bit about yourselves!

I didn't look close enough to catch spelling mistakes, but wanted to say the general impression was very nice in my opinion!

 

[REO]

It looks awesome!!!

While I liked the music, I don't care for music on sites. It made it hard to read with people singing at me!

I agree that the home page should be about YOU, how you got started, the care you put into your food & services!

I want it to INVITE me in, not hit me with business first thing.

I have not yet looked at the whole thing, but I will. It did make me hungry! The site looks very pro and I really love it!

 

[Marty]

Oh man, why the changes? I LOVED the old website. It had the most perfect pictures of the food that would make you want to just jump through your screen and eat. Honestly going to the site would make you so hungry! The pictures said a thousand words.

I don't like the business part of it with prices on the home page. Nope. That needs to go to the very end. First you have to tempt the people with the missing pictures and make them say no matter what this costs, I'm ordering from these people. Then give them the costs at the back page.

The home page needs to be about your company, what you do and your services etc.

The headers and the font don't seem to fit the "Southern Accent" theme. To me its more of a Cajun or even a western look on the headers. Those headers make me feel like I'm walking into a Saloon. I'd change out both that and the font to something more fitting to "Southern" BBQ style. A touch of Florida style.

That music would make me go crazy. No music.

Whip me! Whip me good and hard!

 

[LittleRibbie]

Yes, i forgot about the music...i didnt care for that and actually told my husband that when we took a poll on LB a few yrs. ago most people did not like the music on web sites...especially with dial up. Thanks Im going to bring that up again to him.

I also think that we should talk about our selves and maybe how we got started in business on the front page too but my husband doesnt ever want people to think we are hiding anything, is very low key and doesnt like talking like hes bragging and prefers to have all the business stuff right up front...sort of like no hidden costs. But i see nothing wrong w/putting all the "business red tape" on a separate link...we are not trying to hide it. Thanks so much...its good to hear potential customer comments!!

 

[LittleRibbie]

Marty, Hi

I liked the old one too but the problem was some of those photos were stock photos and although they looked good there were a few that we not ours and we didnt like that. We will be putting a section of photos of our food and events but you know how we are w/pictures. LOL

I agree... can the music... I cant even tell what the music is. Will show these suggestions to Skiff...stay tuned and thanks!!!

 

[REO]

I was coming back to say that it needs pics of the food. I would want to know what I was getting for my money if I was shopping.

If you don't want to mess up the nice look of your pages with photos, you can have a gallery page.

Or a link on each page going to a page of photos that go with each page.

IE: Click here to see photos the offerings on this page!

One for each page.

Just ideas.

Yes I understand that. I hated saying anything about me on my home page too. But IMO, if I go to a site and it starts off with We take credit cards! Here are our prices! Etc, it just turns me off. pffft

Tell Skiff that it's WOMEN that shop for catering and he needs to CATER to women and what attracts THEM to be your customers. He needs to get over it LOL

 

[kaykay]

I really like the design but I would redo the buttons as they are hard to read. You really never want to use yellow font on a website.

I would also take off the Yahoo hosting unless you are getting paid to put that on there.

Also you need to get more meta tags in and redo your meta description. Your current tags are

<meta name="description" content="Catering, Southern Accents Barbecue, BBQ">

<meta name="keywords" content="Catering, Southern Accents Barbecue, BBQ">

I never capitalize keywords because if you do google wont recognize them unless the person searching puts it in caps. Most people never use caps when they search. I would add some more like bbq beef, bbq pork, etc etc. I always tell people to make your location a keyword. so for example one of mine is thornville ohio, thornville ohio miniature horse breeder etc.

The meta name description should be a full paragraph. This is what shows when Google brings up your link. Since you do not have it filled in right here is what shows when you come up on Google:

Catering, Southern Accents Barbecue, BBQ

Hosting by Yahoo! Web Hosting

southernaccentscatering.com

Since you have no meta description, google indexed the first line of your website which is hosting by Yahoo web hosting. Not what you want people to see. Again get that hosted by Yahoo off there.

Thankfully Yahoo makes it real easy to change those. Just go to meta description and type a paragraph. Something like "Welcome to Southern Accents Catering. Our specialty is home style barbeque etc etc.

Remember you have to tailor the meta keywords and descriptions for each page.

Kay

 

[Marty]

I'd like to make a sacrifice and volunteer to taste test all your food for free. Ship away!