nativesoftexas.com retail and wholesale nursery

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nativesoftexas.comretail and wholesale nursery
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purpose

• Provide information about
• Location 11 miles outside of Kerrville, TX
• Specialization Native Texas Plants, particularly
  Madrones
• History and founder Betty Streetman Winningham
• Plants sold picture pages and descriptions
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homepage

• Nice color scheme

• Unbalanced from
• left to right

• Photo should be in
• place of map

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homepage, cont.

• Relevant and irrelevant information

• A lot of scrolling required

3 full screens
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navigation links

• Includes links for Home    Catalog    Plants
  for Shade Part Shade 
• Plants for Sun  Understory Trees 
  Demonstration Garden 
•   Download Our Brochure (pdf)    Contact Us 
    Email    In Memorium

• Bottom of Page

• Combine some links, add others
• ex. About page for maps, history and other
  random facts that could be taken from homepage
  and compiled on a separate page

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Catalog

• Categories
• Flowers and Groundcovers I Vines I Others I
  Shrubs I
• Grasses I Trees

• Suggestions
• Add Plants for Shade and Part Shade, Plants for
  Sun, and Understory Trees to these categories.
• Have photographs for all species.

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Catalog listings

• Text
• Good descriptions of species and care needed
• Common and scientific names

• Images
• Nice jpeg photos
• Non-clickable
• (can not enlarge)

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demonstration garden
 

• Photos
• before and after is
• confusing and seemingly
• irrelevant
• Not impressive for purpose
• of showing off plant
• selection

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other info

• Nice contact page
• address
• phone s
• e-mail that links to
• Outlook Express
• map
• fax
• Hours of operation

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other info

• Printable PDF brochure with list of all available
  plants

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other info

• In Memmorium page about the founder of Natives of
  Texas
• Nice picture and respectful article about living
  out dreams and battling cancer.

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Conclusion

• Problems
• Layout
• Cluttered homepage
• Unimpressive demonstration
• garden photos
• Accessibility to other pages
• Viewing photos in large view
• Not all plants have pictures

• Positive aspects
• Quality jpeg images for most species
• Good contact information page
• Relaxed country feeling

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nativesoftexas.com

• Questions???
• Comments???