Selling like hot cakes..

[Admiral Huddy]

I've been selling Novatech PCs like hot cakes..

I've just had my 5th order in 2 two weeks. For an additional £50, the unit is ordered and delivered to me. I then install all the updates, virus and spyware protection. Once done, the PC is delivered to their home and set-up. There an additional £25 for Data Migration and basic training too.

Some guy the other day, had the works including a couple of hours training :)

[Desmo]

Do you get any markup on the actual PC?

[Marmoset]

Do you build/configure PCs for a living? I used to do it and loved the work but my boss was a complete **** so I left. ;D

[Garp]

Do you build/configure PCs for a living? I used to do it and loved the work but my boss was a complete **** so I left. ;D

Its too much of a hassle / risk to be building boxes yourself on that kind of a basis as then you're the ones stuck with the hardware support hassles. Its far easier to act as a reseller and just co-ordinate RMA stuff with the other company.

[Marmoset]

Its too much of a hassle / risk to be building boxes yourself on that kind of a basis as then you're the ones stuck with the hardware support hassles. Its far easier to act as a reseller and just co-ordinate RMA stuff with the other company.
Agreed. I was part of a support team in a university so it wasn't my own business. I did consider going it alone but the margins were too lean and there was just too much competition from the big companies.

[SidewinderINC]

I live just down the road from novatech, and my mum has an ancient novatech PC :p

They're really good guys down there and I haven't been able to fault their techies either, they don't fob you off with crap.

[Admiral Huddy]

Do you get any markup on the actual PC?

no as it's illegal to do so I believe.. I make the money on the service charge for installing them.. but £50-£100 a pop with little effort, it's not too bad..

Do you build/configure PCs for a living? I used to do it and loved the work but my boss was a complete **** so I left. ;D

Only part time.. Although I can build them, I can't compete withthe likes of the likes of Novatech and Tescos :D

Here's my website www.admiralcomputers.co.uk (http://www.admiralcomputers.co.uk)

[Mark]

Novatech are bargaintastic. I was looking through their catalogue the other day and to say I was surprised by some of the prices would be an understatement. :)

I was put on to them via work who use them for most non-Dell/OEM stuff.

[SidewinderINC]

They're either quite expensive or stupidly cheap. I got the Corsair modular power supplies £10 cheaper than anywhere else selling it at the time when I got it.

[Tak]

they don't fob you off with crap.

You've had a better time that us then

[LeperousDust]

Just so you know Huddy your website doesn't work with Opera.
Navigation pane clips the main text...

[Admiral Huddy]

cheers.. bloody third party browsers :p

[LeperousDust]

I could say bloody none compliance with W3C web standards ;)

[MarcLister]

I could say bloody none compliance with W3C web standards ;)It's alright man, I'll back you up. :D

[Admiral Huddy]

I have no idea what you are talking about but I'm sure you are right.. :D


If anyone has a fix, I would appreciate it.

[MarcLister]

Oooh mon! /Geordie accent.

Just realised you've got your CSS rules in the actual HTML. Naughty boy! ;D

I'm by no means brilliant at this kind of stuff but I am doing a Uni final year project on this kind of stuff so if I get some free time over the weekend I'll download your main page and see what I can do with it? :)

[Admiral Huddy]

what 'ave I dun that makes me nawte (in an Essex accent) ?

lol

:D

[MarcLister]

Apart from http://www.boat-drinks.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6470? :D

You have your CSS rules in the actual HTML file. The CSS should really be in an external file. Then all your HTML files link to the CSS file. This means that if you feel like changing your colour scheme or similar you just make the necessary change(s) to your CSS file and hey presto all your HTML files change. Currently you'd have to change each ruddy page, one at a time!

Also your pages have no doctypes so the browser has no idea what to expect when it loads your website pages up.

Why should you have a doctype? http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/Doctype I'll let W3.org explain. :D

And if you validate your page using the W3C validator you'll find it doesn't. :p

There are 19 errors according to the W3C validator. This means that although the code works, it isn't as correct as it should be. One ideal of perfectly validated HTML is that the page will then render correctly in more browsers. So Opera, Firefox, IE etc will render the same page more identically then they do now.

[Admiral Huddy]

blimmy.. I just pulled all this down from the web ??

I'm not a web developer so all this is from little or no knowledge.


You have your CSS rules in the actual HTML file. The CSS should really be in an external file. Then all your HTML files link to the CSS file. This means that if you feel like changing your colour scheme or similar you just make the necessary change(s) to your CSS file and hey presto all your HTML files change. Currently you'd have to change each ruddy page, one at a time!



Where have I done this so I can correct?

Actually, I've just seen it.. I've only done this on the form page which I'm just playing around with tbh.

[MarcLister]

Where did you get it from? It might be worth getting a book on CSS design. I got one from www.sitepoint.com. This one (http://www.sitepoint.com/books/cssant2/) in fact, has everything I need for my project.

All I know is that tables are kind of boo booed for web design. Tables used for webpages aren't being used for their intended purpose.

I did have a go at fixing the problems causing validation errors but I broke it somehow, not being used to tables. ;D

If you want I could try and re-do the site/page for you without tables. I'm quite busy with Uni but I can do a bit here and there and see what I get for you?