Should we have 2 websites for the 2 locations of our business?
Written By elysa on Aug. 24, 2007.
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I am redesigning the website for the company that I work for. We have 2 locations - New York and Texas. My question is ... would it be better to design two similar sites that are specific to what we do in each city or have 1 website that mentions NY and TX. We are a large printing company so most of the services are the same for both locations.

peroty
Written Aug. 24, 2007 / Report /
Keep 1 web site, just have two different sections. It'll be easier for your customers to remember and easier to manage. :)
Abi
Written Aug. 24, 2007 / Report /
One website with information for each office. This is just one way to do it: http://guttmacher.org/about/contact.html
Ozone42
Written Aug. 24, 2007 / Report /
Why would you make things more complicated for your customers?
Certainly have information for both office where it's relevant, but aside from that it sounds silly. One website.
kwdOnline
Written Aug. 24, 2007 / Report /
One website. Your home page should be relevant to both locations, with more specific detail on pages about each location.
Oli
Written Aug. 24, 2007 / Report /
Only consider crowbar separation if you're offering different things in each place.
For things like contact info, show both on the same page, clearly labelled.
For office-unique lists or more detail, consider something like a tabbed page or a branch-point where the user selects which office they want to see.
But I would never keep them on two different sites...
vickysecret
Written Aug. 25, 2007 / Report /
I would have one website serving as a portal. Say, from the splash page you could either choose to go to ny.html or tx.html or something of that nature, so that each page could cater to the customers from each respective state.