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I Need some Feedback....
« on: August 30, 2011, 12:46:48 PM »
I have just finished one of three new website designs for Truck Market News. This is a free print magazine that can be found at truck stops all over the south. They contacted me wanting a new website and wanting me to be webmaster of this new site.


Take a look at what they have now and what I have put together and give me your feedback please.


http://www.truckmarketnews.com
http://devel.gboreloaded.com


First is theirs second is mine.... I need some feedback before I contact them...


Thanks
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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2011, 04:02:46 PM »
I guess it depends on how much they depend on all those ads on their current site. Both are contemporary and professional looking, but appear to be oriented to different objectives.

By the way, this site doesn't work with an iPad.
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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2011, 06:25:24 PM »
This is like one of them cooking shows. Who we going to chop?  ;D
Both are good, well done. (pun)
First impression.
The first gave me more information as to what the magazine would look like, what it offered and what it could do for me. ( mature web site no doubt built over time)
The second framed the news itself as being important but didnot really give me the value of the magazine to a company.
I will apply a MOO (my opinion only) here.   
 
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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2011, 06:38:57 PM »
It looks very good Matt. But then anything with Lisa Kelly's picture on the front page is going look pretty darn good no matter what......
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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2011, 06:45:41 PM »
First seemed flashy but didn't have as much info as second. I prefer the second it seemed simpler to use but both look good.

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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2011, 07:27:43 PM »
I looked at it fast like I would were I looking for a truck on the net. I didn't see any...


Then I thought well maybe it is for people wanting to sell their truck and need to find this company. First one had a fairly concealed Ph #. Second one never found a thing, So if my truck needed sold how exactly would I get in contact?


If this is supposed to be a news source for and about the truck sales industry, the second seemed to be a better choice.


In this part of the country we have The Truck Paper in every truck stop. I'm assumeing this is the same thing, but southern style. If that is indeed the case I still don't know who to contact were I selling a truck. I would think that would be front and center info. Secondly i should be pretty much able to read the ads without picking up the physical paper. Trust me there are LOTS of computer literate truck drivers out there, and they would just as soon look on the net as pick up the truck rag. I get tired of throwing away trash outta the truck. And the truck buyer guy would rather not hang out at the truck stop to get a paper.


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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2011, 01:40:30 AM »
Like EQ I see no contact info on the revised version.  If I'm a possible advertiser how do I do it?  After all that is the revenue generator here isn't it.  The new version is less cluttered but even more bland because of it.  It needs something to catch the eye and pull the driver in.  Gotta think like a driver.  What is going to catch a drivers attention more than fancy trucks and females.  You notice above, Lisa Kelly's face shot was mentioned in the original page. 
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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2011, 08:55:37 AM »
Thanks a bunch guys. I have not gotten the magazine files yet so that is why they are not on the second site yet but they go in the center between the news and the ads that will be on the right. The two ads on the second are just place holders and will be replaced with the current advertisers of course.
The on-line book will be a part of the second site as well but because it is set to the magazines domain I can not use it on the second one until I make the new site live. We will also be hosting this site on the new GBO server once it gets to Atlanta.


The book is really geared to those looking to buy but the plan is for the new site to have a classifieds ads section and a forums section. This will allow the truckers to buy and sell amongst themselves.


Conan : Theres an App for that.... It is the SMF or Simple Machines Forum App. It will fix it... so they say anyway.


 Thanks again
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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2011, 11:44:48 AM »
Several folks have reported that the GBO forums don't work with Ipad either.
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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2011, 12:55:31 PM »
That is correct. I have an Ipad and allthough I can read all of GBO, it will not allow me post on a forum. Interesting because I can post from my Smartphone. You would think if Ipad won't work a Smartphone won't either. Not the case.
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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2011, 03:27:41 PM »
Matt having it accesable by a mobile device would be a big plus. Many truckers rely on them for internet usage while on the road.
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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2011, 04:56:55 PM »
Theirs is too busy, no one wants to read all of that fine print. You broke up the right hand column which was too Ad-intensive on their version, you mixed in news with the Ad content to maintain interest. You kept their contact info very visible. I would make the Advertise, Subscribe tabs at the top more larger/more prominent if one of the goals is to generate more dollars with those to ways. Yours brings them more modern and seems like it should hold interest longer to make the site more productive.
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Re: I Need some Feedback....
« Reply #12 on: September 09, 2011, 04:24:06 AM »
I like the second one as well. If a fellow is on the road he would probably find the news to be the most important at the time. I think most truckers just want to get back home. So a good news and traffic condition page on the home screen that is updated would probably be helping them out. That could be a quick with smart phone going down the road. If they stop they would probably be more apt to search around the site for classifieds, forums and such.
BTW for GBO my iphone works and my ipad doesn't, both using safari.
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