My Company's new Website!

[jtcorcoran]

After almost signing up for after work class at the Art Institute of Chicago to learn how to build a website and saw the costs, I laughed out loud. (plus I really wanted to give up one day a week after work for the next three years!) After learning about Wordpress and ultimately the Catalyst framework I was blown away. This is my company's 4th, yes 4th website. I was tired of paying people to put sites together that did not match my vision. And every time I wanted to make simple changes to the home page they wanted how much?????

Anyways, I know this is not the best nor the most visually appealing, but it matches what I want to do! I can make real time changes and the plug-in integration is still blowing my mind. It only took me a month to do, and now I can update and upgrade as I please. How awesome. And the mobile platform, forget about it! The QR codes on my business cards lead people right where I want to!

You guys rock, and I can not thank you enough. So here is my website for your perusal, inspiration, and critiques of course! Use it as you please (for good I hope), I know it won't go in the Smithsonian or anything, but I can dream...

http://corcoranheating.com/

Thanks and Best - John

[eric]

Hey John,

This looks great and I love that it's even fully responsive!

Two things to note:

1. It looks like you have a broken image on your "About Us" page.

2. I'm not sure if this was your intention or not (if so then disregard this), but when in mobile view, with the navbar set to be a drop-down menu, you have only a few pages listed and not your entire navbar set of pages. I was thinking that maybe you did this on purpose to keep those viewing on mobile phones to only a few key pages, but if not then you just haven't assigned your Custom Menu to your Navbar 1 Drop-Down Menu "Theme Locations" under Appearance > Menus.

Eric

[jtcorcoran]

Thanks Eric,

Dig your stuff!

1) I did not notice the broken image on my computer, so I will do some investigating

2) I did do it on purpose. I love the customization of it. People has worse ADD than me, so I did my best to keep it short, sweet, and to the point. I'm just glade people can get to it on their phones in the first place! It seems like if people can't get directly to what they want of the point, then you are old news...

Haha

[jasonhobbsllc]

Great stuff John! and I am seeing the broken image link on your About Us page as well. Very nice though!

[jtcorcoran]

Thank you very much, I found the broken link finally, right under my nose...

[eyetography]

really great design love the simplicity !!!!

Nice use of short-codes & like the slider its awesome ..............

[wudman]

Great to see your site using mobile responsive aspects of Catalyst. Given you are an HVAC guy, you rocked a mobile responsive web. I especially liked the use of tabbed information panels and drop downs that let visitors "opt-in" to the information they want. Letting visitors drill down to where they want to be shows you value their time. Awesome job on an informative, to the point site.

If I was to make a suggestion I'd consider going with the "Tablet" option on the responsive menu so that your menu changes sooner to the drop down mode.

From a marketing perspective, I'd consider including bringing your "Emergency Response" information right up front so you number is front and center regardless the device. That will save someone in an emergency a click to find your number. On my smaller "netbook" computer there is this zone where your phone number drops off your header, but the secondary "mobile" header isn't deployed. Of course you can modify how and what logo responds between desktop and mobile devices.

Also, if you were inclined to collect some data, you might integrate something like MadMimi and encourage visitors to sign up for your HVAC maintenance and energy saving tips or news update alerts. Up north you have had some rain, but have not been spared this Midwest heatwave. I can see where an HVAC business could offer "seasonal maintenance" alerts that could double as branding opportunities. MadMimi starts out free and as you move up in subscriptions, remains dirt cheap cost should be exceeded by reward since it is still cheap.

Otherwise a commendable effort for a self-managed, responsive website!

[jtcorcoran]

Thank you very much

[wudman]

Looking sweet after those tweaks!
Wud