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I just wanted to poll the room on what you think makes a good reptile website. Let me know things you like and dislike about some web pages.
Thanks, Eli

Eli,

Coming from someone with an IT background, I can give you the book answer, but that doesn't answer your question.

I guess my primary goal is ease of use. I don't want to have to click all over the place to find what I am looking for and I want things to be reasonably intuitive. To give you an example: AC's site is setup _very_ well, Sandfire is as well. The difference? If you are on Sandfire's site, navigating from the right hand "Resources" menu, and you click back, you do _not_ go back to the resource you were just on. To me, that is annoying. Would it stop me from using that page? Probably not, but I'm a bit anal about web page navigation (remember, IT background...).

Just some initial thoughts.
Tom

easy to navigate
well thought out and not cluttered
high quality pictures that show exactly what i'm looking for or examples of what i'm buying
and as previously mentioned, when you click back you should return to the page you were just on, NOT the sites homepage.

for an example here on kingsnake. when you're searching the forums and reading a post that is 1/3 the way down the page, it is nice to return to where you were reading that return to the top of the page and have to find the post you were just looking for. it makes it a lot easier to read posts in sequence.

Depends on what you mean...are you trying to sell animals..Or only inform the public etc etc.

In either case or any case for that matter, I would suggest a lot of good quality images of the animals and anything else you mentioned like cages too.

For an example of what I mean...go to wildeyesreptiles.com
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