Dealer website (domestic)

[subversion]

greetings friends

which dealer here, in your opinion, has the best website?

if you think there are some lacking elements in their websites in general, do provide constructive feedbacks- thanks in advance.

 

[Brin]

My guess most of the distributors websites are not done by professionals...
ok.. heres my opinion..Ill visit luthermusic classified ads almost everyday, although now the traffic is not as high as before, as now user must login to post ads..Now i rather post ads in soft as it is much more active,and citymusic when they have new promo catalogue, but I should say the overall winner goes to ebenex .. congrats!!

Swee Lee Music Company - Home
Appearance - 5/10
Navigation - 7/10
Informative - 7/10
Up-to-date - 6/10
Useful features - Online store


Welcome To Luthermusic
Appearance - 6/10
Navigation - 7/10
Informative - 6/10
Up-to-date - 7/10
Useful features - Classified Ads (thats what makes ppl visit this website)

Welcome to City Music!
Appearance - 6/10
Navigation - 8/10
Informative - 7/10
Up-to-date - 7/10
Useful features - Promo catalogue

Davis Guitar
Appearance - 7/10
Navigation - 6/10 (products page navigation is incompatible in Firefox)
Informative - 6/10
Up-to-date - 5/10
Useful features - Products page

Yamaha
Appearance - 7/10
Navigation - 6/10
Informative - 7/10
Up-to-date - 7/10
Useful features - Online store not up yet


Maestro Guitars: Singapore Handcrafted Acoustic & Classical Guitars
Appearance - 5/10
Navigation - 5/10
Informative - 4/10
Up-to-date - 5/10
Useful features - Care and feeding guide , And this is lame >> Maestro Family page!!


Ebenex Music Webstore | Homepage | Effects, Guitar, Other, Pedaltrain, Maxon
Appearance - 7/10
Navigation - 7/10
Informative - 7/10
Up-to-date - 7/10
Useful features - Buying guide, Demo page


Guitar77 official site (Singapore)
Appearance - 4/10 (messy)
Navigation - 5/10
Informative - 6/10
Up-to-date - 6/10
Useful features - I visit the site just to see the whats new page..tats it..
Improvements: Why host the product pics in photo bucket and linking the whole page to it??, not very professional. (so that easy to update?) cmon!! Hee hee.. And the navigation buttons just using text links need to change..

TyMusicCenter
Appearance - 7/10
Navigation - 7/10
Informative - 6/10
Up-to-date - 5/10
Useful features - Demo Clips

 

[ebenex]

Thanks guys!

 

[jeepers]

For drummers, local websites aren't helpful.

Swee Lee has very little items on their online store for drummers.

Yamaha has no online store and provides almost no info for their drums, except for their new DTX.

Ranking has no website (That I know of).

Accent has a website, but I don't think it's updated regularly and there are no prices as stated on the website.

Ezimusic has a pretty good website, but no showroom (I think).

From the list, City Music and Ebenex have the best websites IMHO; Organised and informative.

 

[jeepers]

Shit. Laggy internet. Please delete.

 

[betsybug]

From the list, City Music and Ebenex have the best websites IMHO; Organised and informative.

Yes, I agree with this.

City Music - don't have complete product-item catalogue with prices, but info is up-to-date and pages are well laid out.

Ebenex - very good product guide with prices and pictures of items. It's a useful site for effects.

 

[betsybug]

Sub, you missed out mrmisse - the web site is not bad. Good product info with prices and pictures.

 

[AzNjT]

a Majority of the listed sites have VERY few items and most of the time not updated at all.

for it being an online Catalogue it sure does not seem to be updated with the Current makes and models that are instore most of the time if not, AT ALL.

someone should just hire someone to do just that and it would save ALOT of hassle of making calls and trips down.

 

[subversion]

Sub, you missed out mrmisse - the web site is not bad. Good product info with prices and pictures.

there's a limit of 10 to list, i would want to include 'Others' in there as an indicator that there are indeed other good dealer websites besides the store-front based ones we know In this light, reddotmusic is another worthy contender...

 

[wasp]

What about Standard Value? Online store and forum.

 

[marilyn]

ebenex is the best. detailed, informative with good pictures too.extensive catalogue. keep it up ebenex.

 

[THOA]

Ebenex's website is very informative. Unfortunately, on my pc at least, there's often severe problems when loading. Sometimes, pages don't load at all. Perhaps a bug in the hosting?

Davis's website is eyecandy, but lacks info.

Standard Value gets my vote. Simple, easy, to navigate, updated on a regular basis (the blog is a huge help), informative over all.

 

[ebenex]

Hi guys,

thanks for the feedback!

 

[Janvin]

i think davis works too mch on cool effects and not user friendliness.

 

[guitarsan]

^ Yep, Davis's site tries to look cool with all that metalhead flash stuff. But hardly any product info and not useful at all. Fail.

 

[_mike_]

sad.. where is standard value??

Thanks to thoa and wasp for mentioning SV.

 

[Godspeed64]

Ebenex gets my vote.
Appearance wise its not very attractive, but it is consistently updated, and includes a buying guide. Prices are there as well, so it makes things easier..
Their Blackwood counterpart is a little harder to navigate..

Next up is Mr.Misse.. Attractive webbie.. Coolest of all (next up is Davis).. But it is rarely updated anymore..

Red Dot is also attractive.. But a little hard to navigate, and sometimes hard to find pics (gotta really look through for the gig bags part).. Reminds me of gain10 as well! At least update Goose pedals leh.. Haha

Standard Value is also a good webbie.. Pretty similar to soundwaves and TY Music.. But soundwaves don't have their entire catalog, and TY doesn't include pricing.. It's rather tedious to constantly email for pricing.. Swee Lee is similar too, but hardly updated..