Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?
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I've cropped out the massive middle portion of the site to include the bottom bar which is definitely a page or two out of scroll.
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Hint:
And no, it's not anywhere on the unique content of the "information" page.
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@xaade Is it on the "visit" page? That's where I'd expect to find it, if it's not on the home page. But yeah, that's the most important info on the entire site, at least to a first-time visitor, and it should probably be just a little more prominent.
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@xaade Your challenge was a tip that it wasn't anywhere that makes sense, so the bottom small text was the first thing I looked.
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@HardwareGeek It is, but that's two clicks away.
The point is that websites these days seem so focused on advertising and branding that the user has to work to find the information they loaded your site to begin with.
This is stupid.
It should be on the first page, at least the bottom half without having to scroll.
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How many people who only want to find out the address and hours would go to their website instead of Google Maps? I'm sure the answer isn't zero, but I doubt it's a very high percentage.
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@xaade said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
The point is that websites these days seem so
focused on advertisingshitty and half-assed and branding that the user has to work to find the information they loaded your site to begin with.It's cheap to find an amateur to write a bad website for you. Maybe it will get better after old people that doesn't know better retire from running businesses.
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@Dragnslcr said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
How many people who only want to find out the address and hours would go to their website instead of Google Maps?
I always go to the official website first. Most of the time, I want to know the opening hours as well, and those on Google Maps are frequently wrong.
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@candlejack1 said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
It's cheap to find an amateur to write a bad website for you.
You can also hire an expensive professional to write a bad website for you.
I've worked at both ends, and Sturgeon's Law always applies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon's_law
Filed under: And I guess OneBox doesn't work anymore
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Every business website should open with "This is our address, these are our opening hours, this is our phone number" in big centered text.
The 5% of visitors who want anything more than that can scroll down and get the rest of the website.
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@anonymous234 We have a winner here!
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@anonymous234 said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
Every business website
Just those that sell products or services to the public. Lots of businesses don't.
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@candlejack1 said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
It's cheap to find an amateur to write a bad website for you. Maybe it will get better after old people that doesn't know better retire from running businesses.
Not a chance. Because at that point, the old people who know how to make a good website will have died, and all you'll have left is the sort of retards that think shite like Pissforce and knobBB are the very epitome of good design.
At which point, you're probably better off hiring an amateur.
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@xaade Hipster web designers in this area have taken to putting the local colloquial name for streets instead of the real proper name. They have also stopped putting zip codes in the address on websites.
It's all fucking retarded. What if you are from another city looking for a business? You won't know that the information their own website just gave you is wrong, because the street name they list doesn't exist.
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@Polygeekery said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
Hipster web designers in this area have taken to putting the local colloquial name for streets instead of the real proper name. They have also stopped putting zip codes in the address on websites.
That's really great for tourists, visitors or people who just moved to the area. Big hipsters, you're really helping the business succeed with that website.
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@Polygeekery the real hipster thing would be to put geographic coordinates and nothing else
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@candlejack1 At least you can find those using Google Maps (and most GPS devices), so that would actually be kinda okay.
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@asdf said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
that would actually be kinda okay.
Inconvenient, but better than the alternative.
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@candlejack1 said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
@Polygeekery the real hipster thing would be to put
geographicgalactic coordinates and nothing elseFixed - hey we want the widest audience possible!
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@TheCPUWizard said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
we want the widest audience possible!
Given the original post was about a company based in Texas, I think we can assume the audience are already as wide as possible
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Not the best place to put it, but i've thought it one of the most common, if I don't see the info anywhere in the content, 90% of the time i can find it in footer
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the two most important things I want
Most popular videos, and category (along with gender selection)?
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@tufty said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
@candlejack1 said in Can you find the two most important things I want to know when visiting a website for a physical business location?:
It's cheap to find an amateur to write a bad website for you. Maybe it will get better after old people that doesn't know better retire from running businesses.
Not a chance. Because at that point, the old people who know how to make a good website will have died, and all you'll have left is the sort of retards that think shite like Pissforce and knobBB are the very epitome of good design.
At which point, you're probably better off hiring an amateur.
^^This, plus the fact that the "new" people running the businesses learned how from the old people, so nothing really will change.