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Old December 29th, 2009, 12:19 PM
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3 Websites - Please Vote For Best
Please choose website that gives best first impression?


A. Lakewood Auto Shop

B AutoShopCO.com

C. Santa Rosa Smog
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Old December 29th, 2009, 02:37 PM
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Santa Rosa

It looks the cleanest / most professional of the three.

The Lakewood (first one) site looks home-made, and kind of janky at that.

The Arvada site didn't give me an impression one way or the other.
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Old December 31st, 2009, 09:34 PM
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Santa Rosa

It looks the cleanest / most professional of the three.

The Lakewood (first one) site looks home-made, and kind of janky at that.

The Arvada site didn't give me an impression one way or the other.


Thank you. My cilent did the first one. I did the Arvada site years ago, and the SR site recently. T
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Old January 1st, 2010, 09:59 AM
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I agree with DrGroove here .. The Lakewood site looks like it was made 8 years ago by a 12 year old. He'd be 20 now ... go hit him!

The text on the Arvada site is a nightmare ... padding and paragraphs please!

Unless the "girl" is the bosses daughter/wife ... I'd ditch the cheesey photo on the front page of Santa Rosa .... put up a picture of a dirty mechanic or fancy car ... it makes more sense.
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I agree with DrGroove here .. The Lakewood site looks like it was made 8 years ago by a 12 year old. He'd be 20 now ... go hit him!

The text on the Arvada site is a nightmare ... padding and paragraphs please!

Unless the "girl" is the bosses daughter/wife ... I'd ditch the cheesey photo on the front page of Santa Rosa .... put up a picture of a dirty mechanic or fancy car ... it makes more sense.


A dirty female mechanic on top of a race car would work too
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Old January 4th, 2010, 07:29 AM
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i would say that even the new santarosasmog.com one has way too much text on the front page. I think it should have way less and be more focused on moving the visitor to phoning or visitng the garage.
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i would say that even the new santarosasmog.com one has way too much text on the front page. I think it should have way less and be more focused on moving the visitor to phoning or visitng the garage.
I agree. There's no obvious direction here. Where's your conversion rate coming from? That's where we should be motioned to.
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Santa Rosa, by a country mile.

Lakewood is horrible. Far too garish and texty.

Autoshop is OK, but not as professional as Santa Rosa.
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Unless the "girl" is the bosses daughter/wife ... I'd ditch the cheesey photo on the front page of Santa Rosa .... put up a picture of a dirty mechanic or fancy car ... it makes more sense.


I'm not sure about that. It works for me. I know what I'd rather look at if its a sexy girl or an ugly mechanic
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Old January 14th, 2010, 08:06 AM
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I agree with l8rm8e. The photo looks cheesy and impersonal. Maybe a nice girl outside the business premises??
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Santa Rosa definitely.
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I would have to go with Santa Rosa, I like that one, the others just look like poor website design.
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Old January 18th, 2010, 05:11 AM
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Santa Rose is the best the others look a little messy and cluttered.
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Santa Rosa is the consensus! And definitely best for me. I actually think it looks great as is. Dont change it.
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