Monkeyleg
Member.
A few weeks back, I asked THR members to critique a website I was working on for a friend's gun shop. This all really started last August, when I said I'd do a website for him for free, since he'd done some favors for me. I also wanted to get a few sites under my belt so I could start marketing website development in additon to the photography and digital manipulation that I do now for a living.
At any rate, from time to time he's requested additional pages for this or that product, photos and information on the products, etc. The site now has 17 pages. Each page has two versions: one that contains some Flash components and is "weightier;" and one that is purely html and loads faster. Additionally, each page has three "sniffer" pages that direct users to the either the Flash or non-Flash page depending upon their modem speed, whether they have the Flash plug-in, and whether they've been to the site before. So, the site actually has 65 pages.
On top of that, there are 160 "sub-pages" with photos and descriptions of the guns, knives, accessories and so on.
I've also done search engine optimization for the site. Do a Google search on "Ed Brown pistols," and this site comes up #1. Kimber, Wilson Combat and a number of other product lines that my friend carries also now bring his site up on the first page of most search engines.
All together, I probably have between 200 and 300 hours put into this effort, perhaps even more.
Whew! I'm getting too wordy here!
Anyway, every so often my friend says "we have to think about a way of reimbursing you for all this."
I'd like to reply, "how about a Kimber Eclipse Target?" But I keep remembering that it was me who approached him with the offer to do a site for free.
Am I wrong? Your opinions, please.
At any rate, from time to time he's requested additional pages for this or that product, photos and information on the products, etc. The site now has 17 pages. Each page has two versions: one that contains some Flash components and is "weightier;" and one that is purely html and loads faster. Additionally, each page has three "sniffer" pages that direct users to the either the Flash or non-Flash page depending upon their modem speed, whether they have the Flash plug-in, and whether they've been to the site before. So, the site actually has 65 pages.
On top of that, there are 160 "sub-pages" with photos and descriptions of the guns, knives, accessories and so on.
I've also done search engine optimization for the site. Do a Google search on "Ed Brown pistols," and this site comes up #1. Kimber, Wilson Combat and a number of other product lines that my friend carries also now bring his site up on the first page of most search engines.
All together, I probably have between 200 and 300 hours put into this effort, perhaps even more.
Whew! I'm getting too wordy here!
Anyway, every so often my friend says "we have to think about a way of reimbursing you for all this."
I'd like to reply, "how about a Kimber Eclipse Target?" But I keep remembering that it was me who approached him with the offer to do a site for free.
Am I wrong? Your opinions, please.