[GoLUG] What do you think of this website?

[Ron / BCLUG]

Steve Litt wrote on 2025-01-31 02:14:

> what do you think of this (not mine) website?
> 
> https://firztly.com/

I too struggle to spell "sophisticated algorhythms" [sic].


Again, "thru [sic] their algorhythm [sic]"

Atrocious English, damn. Such sloppiness, they don't seem like serious 
people.


The email address is FirztlyCEO at gmail.com - amateurs, use your own domain!



I'm not a fan of the landing page art work. That's highly subjective 
though. The images laid over each other, including the logo, ain't great.

The font on "That Actually Sell" isn't my cup of tea.


The site's functional, there's a shopping cart and a slider.


Oh, I can add "Made in Cuba.com" (spaces?!? I guess it's for legibility) 
MORE THAN ONCE using the - and + symbols! No, that's not right for domains!


And the shopping cart isn't actually active - I can increment 
madeincuba.com 3 times so I can buy 3 copies of the domain name, but I 
cannot add it to a shopping cart.


That's half-baked at best.


My guess: they've taken a template and just threw their content on it 
without regard to ... anything.

I kinda take back that "site's functional" now.

Ha ha: check out the User Guide:

https://firztly.com/user-guide

 > You can find an item on the website using search tool, sort the items 
 > by date, name, weight, price, model, manufacturer, brand and category.

"I'd like a domain name by Channel that weighs no more than 1200g please."


Directly taken from the OSCommerce website:

 > https://demo.oscommerce.com/furniture/user-guide



The search function works nicely.

Am I missing "Add to cart"?  The demo site linked above does have a 
working shopping cart.


Their contact info is a block of text with awkward line breaks.

It has un-formatted phone numbers: they really should have put 
delimiters between 1-###-###-#### and made them clickable links of type 
telephone (I think there's an HTML5 thing to enable tap-to-dial on mobile).

The only email contact info is TEXT IN AN IMAGE - it cannot even be 
selected to paste in an email, never mind clicked on to open a 
pre-addressed email with subject pre-filled.


If you're asking *hundreds of thousands* of dollars, these details matter.

My opinion of this operation just keeps dropping. They're clowns, IMHO.



All in all, it's well-enough laid out, the domain names aren't bad but 
expensive (again, subjective) and I hope they lose a lot of money (who 
doesn't dislike domain squatting?).



My 2¢, which if anyone from that site is reading this will cost you 
$15,000 USD payable on reading this message.