Australian Olive Oil Company

**angelize** · 17 January 2012, 03:53 PM

That's a very nice site Abi, I like the slideshows you do on your sites. Beautiful photos.

**Cloud** · 17 January 2012, 10:14 PM

Beautiful site, really good colours and the photos are stunning, really well done. And you are so lucky to have your workplace at an olive grove.

**AllenSco** · 14 February 2012, 08:24 AM

Very nice site! Love the colors and layout. Gorgeous photos too! A+

**pauland** · 14 February 2012, 09:55 AM

I like the site generally, but I don't think that the colour pallette matches the product - light olive oil and a dark, heavy background.

If your client needs a web presence because of the Japanese market, why isn't the site also in Japanese?

Paul

**Abikadabra** · 14 February 2012, 11:45 AM

Thanks everyone for your comments. With regard to the dark background, that was at the request of my landlords. Below is the original website I made them, with the colours reflecting the olives, and the olive oil (I optimised the photos to reduce the size of the file to upload onto the forum, so pics are a bit pixelated). They wanted the site to be different from the one I made - larger, and dark so I made a new one which they are delighted with (although I think the first one was nicer - just needed a bit of tweaking with the layout). With regards to it being in Japanese, they did not have the $2,105 spare to pay for a Japanese translator to translate the website, and using an online translation tool does a very bad job, so the site is only in English. They have been selling in Japan for 4 years, but have not ever had a website.

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**pauland** · 14 February 2012, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Abikadabra

Thanks everyone for your comments. With regard to the dark background, that was at the request of my landlords. Below is the original website I made them, with the colours reflecting the olives, and the olive oil (I optimised the photos to reduce the size of the file to upload onto the forum, so pics are a bit pixelated). They wanted the site to be different from the one I made - larger, and dark so I made a new one which they are delighted with (although I think the first one was nicer - just needed a bit of tweaking with the layout). With regards to it being in Japanese, they did not have the $2,105 spare to pay for a Japanese translator to translate the website, and using an online translation tool does a very bad job, so the site is only in English. They have been selling in Japan for 4 years, but have not ever had a website.

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Thanks for the info. I'd probably have been heading to a more golden theme, to reflect the lightness of the oil and perhaps try and check out some japanese sites to get some cultural references. We'd have had a bit of an arm-wrestle about it!

Perhaps a Japanese student could have done the translation for a substantial discount!

I know from my own experience in Europe that taking the time to try and adapt to the local culture and language helps no end. I would think it's even more the case for Japan.

The customer is king, so great job!