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Permalink Reply by Chris Tomlinson on April 11, 2009 at 9:27pm

Oh, without question the cost is going to be the number issue - no doubt in my mind.

And I think that's where a template style system would work best. I've been in the 'biz' for about 5 years and my typical sites range right in the same area as your company's. But those are built from scratch and I can't see too many volly's out there being able to afford a custom site like you or I might provide.

Very nice site BTW and congrats on some of those big clients! Very cool!

~Chris

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Permalink Reply by lutan1 on April 11, 2009 at 10:20pm

Thanks Chris ;-)

BTW, The Buscofire website is very well done- I like it!

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Permalink Reply by Scamehorn on April 13, 2009 at 1:14pm

Thank you, for the input. I'll be sure to pass that on to her. So far the Dept seems to like it. I just wanted some outside opinion on it as well. Thanks again

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Permalink Reply by Smoke Eater on April 13, 2009 at 4:52pm

Sounds good to me

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Permalink Reply by Mick Shelley on April 14, 2009 at 8:30am

Hey Chris, Are you the "WEB CRITIC" Not every fire department has a "Techie Geek" as yourself, nor the money to have a professional web designer build them a site. You can at least give them a little credit for trying. I was
touhgt that if I don't have something nice to say, DON'T say anything at all. Sorry Chris, I just don't like critic's
I would like to just show praise for at least trying. Give it time, the world wide web is still new to many.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tomlinson on April 14, 2009 at 9:11am

Mike,

I guess in a way I am a web critic and as I said in my opening statement, I'm not trying to be rude with my comments.

I also questioned whether or not it was because of money or just not enough 'geeks' in the fire service.

I do give people credit for trying, even though I didn't actually say that, but Internet users are growing (in U.S. anyway) and becoming more educated and picky about what site they'll visit and what site they won't. And that's my point. Sites that are "under construction" or hard to follow are going to lose visitors.

In today's market sites that are poorly done or are not complete is like sending out a brochure that isn't completely printed.

My whole intention of this post is to research some of the possible reasons behind the poorly done sites and then provide a solution. All of us are damn proud of our apparatus, how we appear and the job that we do, so why not do the same with our websites?

~Chris

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tomlinson on April 14, 2009 at 9:16am

Bobby,

Being the design geek and picky person I am, I may not prefer the visual effects of the Evans Valley site, but it's UP-TO-DATE and that's obvious by the fire call information on the home page. I would take that any day over "Be back soon" or "Under construction". Give them HUGE credit for that!

Was it just me or did the navigation bar keep disappearing on the Shady Cove department site? I'm assuming that's how the template was built that they used? Not their fault, it was done poorly by the designer of the template I imagine.

~Chris

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Permalink Reply by Deanna on April 14, 2009 at 10:06am

I'll Pass this info on, thanks

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Permalink Reply by Leslie Bertram on April 15, 2009 at 10:19pm

Hey Chris it's Leslie I got my own profile now.

I am very excited. I just taught myself how to do the HTML table for the runs page. Really it was easy. Well got to get back to working on it so I can get it posted. Thank you so much for the help!!!

Leslie

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tomlinson on April 16, 2009 at 8:07am

Hey very cool! Congrats on figuring it out!

Now your next move will be styling the tables with CSS. Talk about some interesting ways to make your tables just pop! ;o )

~Chris

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