WEBSITE - your input in final completion.

[BOAS_N_PYTHONS]

EVERYONE:

My web designer is back on his feet after dealing with an illness for the last few months and is ready to continue his work on my website. We have lots of ideas and many standard options that are normal on alot of herp related websites. Being this will be my site and herp related I am asking for information, ideas, goods/bads you seen on other herp sites, graphic issues, sound, videos, galleries and so on from the community.

We - Analisa and myself believe being in touch with the community and deciding on the input you all give we can finalize a website that meets everyone' s needs best we can. We are at the moment focusing on only boids - boas and pythons, maybe in years to come we might consider other snakes and reptiles.

We want the site to be informative, business, entertaining, user friendly, graphically appealing, and respectful / tasteful.

Question - Can you please list likes / dislikes on websites you have viewed and would like to see in a new herp website?

Question - Please list websites (both Canadian or American) with url' s, that you find meet your needs?

All ideas are welcome and will help me and my web designer :D

Thank you all for your help in advance.

Tony

[spidergecko]

I think this thread covered most of the things people don't like:

http://ssnakess.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64139

I prefer very clean, uncluttered sites.

[SnowSnake]

Don't use bright colors!! keep everything organised and accessable.

P.S. 800th post!! yay

[HeatherRose]

I can't wait to see your website Tony :D

What I like about breeders' websites are lots and lots of pictures, information about breeding projects, a little blurb about the breeder themselves, easy navigation and a good available page that shows the prices for animals (even for a little while after they've been sold.)

What I don't like are hard to navigate pages, lack of pictures, hard to read information (There's a big breeder with an AMAZING web site, but while they provide tons of info about their projects their paragraphs have 34085747 little '.....' thingies in them... I can't find the proper name for those, sorry... but it's still a great site, just hard to read.

What guarantees I probably won't be back due to seizures:

Stuff falling on the page (cute little snowflakes, rain, hearts, shooting stars, etc.), those things that attatch to your cursor (like a trail of glitter or whatever) and long intros with crazy music...

Just my opinions, as someone who knows crap about computers but likes to look at websites :)

[greenman1867]

Heather is right, you can't have too many good pics (that means snake pics :D ) Clean Simple, and easy to navigate is very important. BUT for me, the most important is an up to date site with working links and current info.


Shawn

[Slipknot]

Stuff I like: Everything clean and organized, cool graphics, lots of pictures of whatever you're talking about, and very descriptive descriptions.

Stuff I don't like: Clutter, anything really plain, vague descriptions, and anything with a lot of noise.

The following sites I think are very well put together:

http://proexotics.com/

http://scaleszoo.com/

http://newenglandreptile.com/

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"Don't let this happen to you" sites:

http://www.lylepublishing.com/RCareFrame1Source1.htm
(bright colors, hard to read and everything is smooshed together)

[SerpentLust]

Personally my favourite website from a breeder would be Henry Piorun's site. His wife did an amazing job.

http://www.a1pythons.com

Jenn

[CORN_SNAKE91]

My brother is a website designer and anytime he does a site, it is simple, but effective.

I don't like websites that cram in everything they can fit on the page, and websites that have "too much going on" (if u know what i mean).

I like sites that have good navigation.

[SerpentLust]

While surfing the web and glancing at various breeders sites, I found a no-no

http://www3.sympatico.ca/michael.vince/

[CORN_SNAKE91]

good find serpent lust, that is a DEFINITE no no

[Asian Jon]

Why a no no? It looks great :D. It makes you dizzy.

[CORN_SNAKE91]

LOL

[dave68]

I also agree with Jenn, Henry's site is great, especially the flashing updated thing, it lets you know immediately if theres anything new to check out. One of my biggest peeves with sites is when you click on say, Available Boas and you go to a blank page saying Coming soon.....cant stand that....anyways good luck with yours Tony. Allison

[Manitoban Herps]

I am perrty much the same as heather. Except I think a pic of my on your site will help you sell better ;)

[concept3]

make it clear where you are from ie: CANADA on the front page, I see way to many sites that its almost impossible to figure out where they are from/

[nerodia]

keep it simple, I'm on dial-up. No Flash, quicktime etc. and keep the "file" size of pictures small.

[JAdkins2451]

http://www.jefffavelle.com/

The reason I like Jeffs is that its updated..I hate going to websites that are out of date. It is also easy to navigate.

[greenman1867]

Here is my Favorite "looking" site

http://www.strictlyballs.ca/main.html

LOL What I don;t like is there is nothing available with "Sold to Shawn aka Greenma1867" beside the pics :D

Actually I just love the look of the site.

[crazy4reptiles]

here is my favorite looking site....

http://www.8ballpythons.com (http://)




but there are tons of sites that are really good also

Markus Jayne
Henry Piorun
Jeff Favelle
Tim Cranwill

all good sites....

[Asian Jon]

Mykee's site is one of the greatest looking herp sites I have seen. Markus Jayne has a killer site too :)

[BOAS_N_PYTHONS]

EVERYONE:

Thank you for your help, I am always willing to hear more ideas.

Below is something I worked on by trying my best so far at Photoshop, please be kind "pros" at this software as this is my 1st attempt at understanding this software.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/BOAS_N_PYTHONS/12%20-%20MISCELLANEOUS/LOGO002.jpg

Thanks for viewing.

Tony

[SerpentLust]

Tony I actually REALLy like it. You would think alot of pics like that would look junky but the way you did the banner is just gorgeous. Nice clean squares in a pattern. Superb.

Jenn

[Scales Zoo]

That's a nice banner tony, very well done.

I'm looking to make banners - more on that to follow.

I noticed someone mentioned the scales zoo site, well the template was done by Henry's wife too, I just had to fill in the blanks. Henry got the first and biggest puppies from Sarges litter for that favor.

I have made a couple of quick plain jane informative sites.

www.wellpanels.com

www.reptileshowandsale.com

www.cactuspatchpromotions.com (temp HISS page)

The banner programs I have, don't work very well, so for now I just have the names in text. The HiSS banner was made by invictus, as was the miceandthings banner on the reptileshowandsale.compage. The reptile show and sale and HISS page are both just skeletons at the moment, and not finished. I started on them on Monday - just doing the basic layout for approval. I have to make a white and blue wepbage, or something, all of these look very similar! Simple and basic for most things is best in my opinion.

For any comments or criticisms about the webpages, please don't use the webpages email, email me at thesnakepeople@sasktel.net

Sorry to jump in on your post Tony, I know you'd never do it to anyone else.....

Ryan

[BOAS_N_PYTHONS]

JENN:

Thanks, the actually doing it took about an hour but took me 3 hours to understand it all to get it visual :D

Tony

[Bartman]

Nice man, I didnt quite get what you wanted when you asked lol, but that looks cool!

Your getting better already :D

[Jeff_Favelle]

Coooool banner!

[BOAS_N_PYTHONS]

ADAM:

Thank you, the explaining of the CTRL + T and the understand of the toolbar in photoshop helped alot. I am creative with drawing on paper but always wanted to put some ideas into computer graphic art. So this is my first step into that direction.

JEFF:

Thank you as well :D

Tony

[BOAS_N_PYTHONS]

EVERYONE:

Just worked a new design, might be the header of the website or part of the idea.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v520/BOAS_N_PYTHONS/12%20-%20MISCELLANEOUS/LOGO031.jpg

Tony