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Originally Posted by pinkmetallic
That was the old branding back when swords and guitars were major features of the shoots. It was kind of a double entendre about the name and the themes (Swords, Electric Guitars, etc). I've removed that branding from the archive site now - it's all the standard branding now. I might bring it back someday if I return to more of the cosplay style of sets for those.
I have ZERO interest in updating the site design. It's a landing zone for the content and nothing more; there is nothing I find more unbelievably tedious than web page design. I've been doing it for over 30 years now and viewdata before that - each new trend is slower and more unnecessarily complex than the one before - and I simply hate it. I wasn't at all impressed with BLINK when Netscape introduced it when they first arrived to take on Mozilla and if you ask me it's just gotten worse since! :-)
I'm interested in shooting videos in new and interesting ways, not in bashing out some fancy-smanchy web page that's just slow to load and does endless pointless animations.
And yes, that's absolutely why I have next to zero interest in designing sites for direct to customer sales, that market thrives on that kind of stuff that bores me to tea
Cheers, Beaky
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I presumed that the content was going to be cosplay stuff with swords as this seems popular at the moment.
As for your site. You could do a wordpress site in ten minutes. Or at very least have a single page made that is attractive.
Why does the website matter?
To put simply it is the first thing your customers will see. And at the moment it looks like you do not care so they will not buy from you.
A few years ago, my friend had the same attitude to his shop. He looked bad, no effort, nothing spent on it, the result was few customers.
I went in and smashed it up with a hammer. I made him make it look nice.
The result was his shop made a LOT of money.
The truth is I look sat your site and it looks nasty, lazy, no effort. The message your telling us is you cannot be bothered and have no cash, and want to do things cheap. Your telling us you do not respect your customers enough to give us a nice site.
In the same way, if you went past a fish and chip shop and the floor was greasy and the signs a mess and the staff not interested in you, the chances are you will walk next door to the one that is clean and the staff look after you.
So you have to ask yourself, is the first thing people see of you is a great site to make them think they are dealing with a pro, or do you want them to think this chap has no idea what he is doing?
To be honest, I am a bit insulted that your saying you cannot be bothered. I cannot believe you are posting that you cannot be bothered to do something that would take you an hour or two.
This is your business. You should be making us think wow.