What website would you model your business website after?
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
Right off the top of my head I would go with Amazon and then as a close second Bank of America. Pictures of the menu available at the drive-thru
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Right off the top of my head I would go with Amazon and then as a close second Bank of America. Pictures of the menu available at the drive-thru
Toasty0 wrote:
I would go with Amazon and then as a close second Bank of America.
Erm, I was thinking a website that sells software products. I suppose Amazon... So, what do you like about Amazon and BofA? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Toasty0 wrote:
I would go with Amazon and then as a close second Bank of America.
Erm, I was thinking a website that sells software products. I suppose Amazon... So, what do you like about Amazon and BofA? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
Amazon is rich while still simple. It's intuitive, logical, presents information(product as well as navigation) in a non-glitzy manner as possible while still balancing the need to avoid a stale user experience. BofA is truly simple and fast. A nice 3 color layout that leads the eye to core content. Does that answer your question? Pictures of the menu available at the drive-thru
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
The new Zone Labs[^] website is alright. Intuit[^] is good too, although some pages get somewhat cluttered ... I like sites that make it simple to find their products, and then the products they sell should be listed in simple form with a listing of basic features. One thing I feel is a must, if you market/sell a product with multiple levels (e.g., basic, adv, pro) is a comparison chart that shows EXACTLY what the differences are. Something else I think is a must on a site, the phone number should be clearly visible on the FRONT PAGE at the TOP. Why? because sometimes a website just pisses me off and I want to talk to a person; nothing's worse than trying to find a phone number burried on the "About" page (don't get me started on the word "About"). My thoughts on the matter ...
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
Marc Clifton wrote:
If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after?
None. :) I'd look at my competition... major: https://simdis.nrl.navy.mil/[^] http://www.multigen.com/[^] http://www.quantum3d.com/[^] and minor: http://www.tec.army.mil/TD/tvd/survey/survey_toc.html[^] and simply make the site better than my competition's. ;P speaking of which... we need to push our new flyer through approvals. ;) but the point is moot, I have a product, but we don't sell it, only the service: http://newtecllc.com/CapabilitiesENG.htm[^] pay no attention to the man in the beard in the back... that picture is old... but even that decision is moot... someone else does the websites... :rolleyes: _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 0:14 Sunday 23rd April, 2006
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Marc Clifton wrote:
If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after?
None. :) I'd look at my competition... major: https://simdis.nrl.navy.mil/[^] http://www.multigen.com/[^] http://www.quantum3d.com/[^] and minor: http://www.tec.army.mil/TD/tvd/survey/survey_toc.html[^] and simply make the site better than my competition's. ;P speaking of which... we need to push our new flyer through approvals. ;) but the point is moot, I have a product, but we don't sell it, only the service: http://newtecllc.com/CapabilitiesENG.htm[^] pay no attention to the man in the beard in the back... that picture is old... but even that decision is moot... someone else does the websites... :rolleyes: _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 0:14 Sunday 23rd April, 2006
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You're not on the "special" list? Pictures of the menu available at the drive-thru
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You're not on the "special" list? Pictures of the menu available at the drive-thru
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
WholeTomato[^] except for the fromtpage (no animations, and entrance points for new / returning / returning customer)
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
Marc Clifton wrote:
for a software product
I like the presentation found at http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/[^] Clear links to the child content. Although it would be better it not quite so much on the front page. At least I would take the right hand col and place it under the left one. "Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with things that move us toward progress and peace.” (Ronald Reagan)
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
Divelements has quite a good layout and is very consistent Ed
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
seems to be off limits.
that's okay... it is a lousy piece of software anyhow. Which, of course, is why it is the standard. :rolleyes: _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
Marc Clifton wrote:
If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after?
To be honest, I've never come across a decent site. Most are either too "corporate" or too 'Flash'. Have looked through this thread so far, only the http://www.divelements.com/net/[^] page really appeals to me. I like the Visual Studio home page, http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/[^] - but it has a lot of content to link to which is very difficult to have for most software products. http://www.dundas.com/index.aspx[^] is also fairly nice, for selling a graphic intensive product. http://www.theultimatetoolbox.com/[^] works well for me, apart from the cheesy graphics. http://www.frontrange.com/index.aspx[^] is also nice. http://www.fogcreek.com/FogBugz/[^] is probably the nearest to my ideal site. (Although I'd lose the left hand testimonial bit) A lot depends on what your target market is. I like to see lots of screenshots of the product in action without having to hunt through masses of pages. Corporate customers probably look for different things, otherwise we wouldn't have all that "corporate language" on most sites. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Bl
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
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If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after? Marc Pensieve Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 22:44 Saturday 22nd April, 2006
Some random thoughts: ----- So few people do any kind of market research before starting their product development. Geeks just like to code, and then hope that their product will sell. There is zero market research, and zero effort to get any traffic to the website. Go to http://www.wordtracker.com[^] and http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/[^] to find out what keywords people are actually searching for. Then, when you have an understanding of the market needs, see what skills you have that matches those needs. Love to do image processing? Great! Don't just blindly start coding a tool that flips all images vertically. Find out if anyone wants it first. Or, better still, find out what problems people are trying to solve, and which of those are related to your image processing skills, and do something in that area. ---- If you are a geek, please don't design your own website. I can guarantee you that it will be horrible. Just because you can code some HTML, it doesn't mean you can design websites. If you are launching your website as a serious business, then treat it as such and get a decent web designer to do the job. You can do all the backend coding yourself, but don't touch the front end design. ----- Web design != graphics design. The purpose of a website is to sell, not to show off cool graphics or color schemes. A whole book can be written on this topic, and I don't even know where to start. ----- Features and benefits mean different things to different people, and for different products. Programming controls, libraries, etc sell more if you list their features - "Office 2003 like classes," "Automatic layout management," etc. Products for end users, even if they are programmers in their day jobs, sell more if you list their benefits - "Be more productive and obtain faster results," "Communicate and collaborate more effectively within your software teams," etc. And remember, these same benefits/features have to be presented in different ways depending on whether a manager or a programmer is seeing the page. ----- It's not enough to have a "Products" link, button, drop down, menu, or whatever else. I am not on your website so I
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Marc Clifton wrote:
If you were to put together a website for a software product, what websites out there do you like, that you would model your own site after?
None. :) I'd look at my competition... major: https://simdis.nrl.navy.mil/[^] http://www.multigen.com/[^] http://www.quantum3d.com/[^] and minor: http://www.tec.army.mil/TD/tvd/survey/survey_toc.html[^] and simply make the site better than my competition's. ;P speaking of which... we need to push our new flyer through approvals. ;) but the point is moot, I have a product, but we don't sell it, only the service: http://newtecllc.com/CapabilitiesENG.htm[^] pay no attention to the man in the beard in the back... that picture is old... but even that decision is moot... someone else does the websites... :rolleyes: _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) -- modified at 0:14 Sunday 23rd April, 2006
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
simply make the site better than my competition's
Shouldn't be too hard. Multigen and quantum3d text were too small for me to read and the huge table on the tec.army.mil site stunk. My 2 cents worth :) Paul
