Need help

[TheFaQQer]

malvolvio...if i wasn't willing to take advice or suggestions, i wouldn't have posted anything in the first place ok

OK - here's the heavily edited best bits of advice from the thread to recap:

I presume you have been through the list of agencies listed with their email information in the 'Agency Directory' listing on this site?

Go to http://www.jobserve.com/RecruiterDirectory.aspx - there's 378 to get you started.

Not without a damn good USP it won't....Good luck anyway...

Your search button looks horrible in safari.

You're also not publishing your registered address.

It's a legal requirement to have your address on a company website.

You need to work on your Joomla skin, the Contact Us link jumps under the Home link when you click on contract in Firefox...

Secondly hire a graphic designer, it looks booooorring,.

I hope you succeed but you really need to do some risk analysis and CBAs first before you waste too much time and money.

Any fool can build a website, even me. Getting crticial mass in a crowded market with a clear amd totally dominant market leader is the hard part.

davley2: Every new product or service that has ever been created that has been a success has offered a major benefit to its potential users that has not been offered by anyone else. Name me one that has not done this.
Your website offers nothing new apart from the fact that it is "dedicated to contractors". This is a feature not a benefit. As a contractor I can get this benefit by selecting the "contract" option in the "contract/permanent" pop-up menu on jobserve.com

Go and see BusinessLink and ask them to tell you how to produce a Business Case.

The Contact Us link is b0rked and needs fixing and you also need to get a graphic designer to give your site the once over. You will never be taken seriously if you do not have a site that looks like it has been cobbled together in one weekend, you need to project a professional image.

Currently the graphics are boring and generally quite crappy. You may not like the criticism but that doesn't mean it is not true or without value.

HTH

[realityhack]

http://www.smart-sites.co.uk/ are responsible for the design. The markup is sloppy, the design is second-rate, but then again, so is the designer's portfolio.

Davely2 - if you're not a troll as the general thread would indicate - you really need to work on this. The site lacks any sticky content for contractors, and it does need re-skinning - I'd definitely re-brand too - the design mark and colour scheme just don't work - whoever put this together lacks basic knowledge in graphic design, colour awareness and web design techniques.

I hope you didn't pay much for this job.

[davley2]

thx

Thx. i have taken all comments on board and realise there is a lot of work to do. i believe it can work, but alot needs to be addressed