Website Features,ideas, And Input

CreativeHomeImp · 02-01-2009, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by tinner666

It has the 'shady' technique of disabling the back botton. Myself and other I know just close the tab of browser on those sites.

does anyone else have this problem with my site? I have never heard of anyone having this issue with it and I can't replicate it for the life of me.

curapa · 02-01-2009, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Winchester

it's not all that bad. Looks "home made" but gets the job done, and doesn't look like a jumbled mess of info and random photos. The only real issue I have is the black text in the banner at the top is very hard to read.

I know, I have tried every color of text and every one is hard to read over that banner. I am going to have to come up with something else there.

I still have alot of pictures to resize and alot of text to add in various places.

Winchester · 02-01-2009, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by curapa

I know, I have tried every color of text and every one is hard to read over that banner. I am going to have to come up with something else there.

I still have alot of pictures to resize and alot of text to add in various places.

If you use photoshop try doing a blending mode on the text, and either a "stroke" or "outer glow" aroudn the text to make it stand out.

Winchester · 02-01-2009, 10:40 PM

Someone like Lawndart could come in here and put me to shame, but here is what I meant.

BattleRidge · 02-01-2009, 10:50 PM

Not having the link clickable keeps out the spam. I do agree with some of the text needing to be changed, Im no longer a partnership either so theres plenty of stuff to be removed, and I have about 5 new projects to load on. Thanks for the feedback though.

curapa · 02-01-2009, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Winchester

Someone like Lawndart could come in here and put me to shame, but here is what I meant.

Thanks, both of those look way better than what I have. I will change my banner soon.

I built the site using a template and currently the banner and text over it are two seperate entities, I have just been too lazy to merge them together with an image editing program. The template design I am using now limits the way I can add text over my banner.

Duane1982 · 02-01-2009, 10:51 PM

mine is setup off of wordpress and by doing a few blogs it's greatly helped people seeing my site. It's far from done and suggestions would be helpful

curapa · 02-01-2009, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Duane1982

mine is setup off of wordpress and by doing a few blogs it's greatly helped people seeing my site. It's far from done and suggestions would be helpful

I like your site, it's easy to read and naviagate. The major downfall I see is the lack of pictures.

CreativeHomeImp · 02-01-2009, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by BattleRidge

Not having the link clickable keeps out the spam.

hmm very true I didn't think of that

mickeyco · 02-01-2009, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by CreativeHomeImp

So I was think it would be cool to have a little critique of our websites. If we could look at each others sites and give input as to what we like/don't like and input for each other like info and features we could add. So if you wanna participate post up! My site is in my sig below.

The first thing I notice is the page is a little slow loading. Your images are all png type and a large file size, here is the image from your homepage, it's 223KB, below it is your image converted to a jpg, it's 37KB, almost 200KB less, All four of the house images add up to 351 KB, they would be 57KB in jpg format, almost 300KB, the page will load a lot faster with jpgs, plus some browsers have problems with png files. I would only use them when you need the transparency they offer. If all your gallery images are the same I would convert them to jpg's as well.

PNG Image:

JPG image:

curapa · 02-01-2009, 11:03 PM

Creativehomeimp, I like the overall feel of your site. Your site is esy on the eyes and easy to read but the pages took longer to load than I would like.

MickeyCo. beat me to it

dubz · 02-01-2009, 11:28 PM

I just made this the other night. It obv needs work. I haven't been good about taking pictures so i have to go back and take some. I have to wait until the snow melts though. I have some on film that I need to have scanned and fixed up and a couple jobs but I want to put them all up at once rather than just have a few.

I'm on the board though! Something I've been meaning to do for a long time.

http://brianwilsonconstruction.net

curapa · 02-01-2009, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by dubz

I just made this the other night. It obv needs work. I haven't been good about taking pictures so i have to go back and take some. I have to wait until the snow melts though. I have some on film that I need to have scanned and fixed up and a couple jobs but I want to put them all up at once rather than just have a few.

I'm on the board though! Something I've been meaning to do for a long time.

http://brianwilsonconstruction.net

Super slow! Your site is still loading as I write this.
I will not state the obvious as I am sure you know you need to add alot of info but it will not do any good if you do not fix the load time.

CreativeHomeImp · 02-02-2009, 12:36 AM

yeah I am gonna try and convert all the png's to jpeg thats been on my to do list lol.

tinner666 · 02-02-2009, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by dubz

I just made this the other night. It obv needs work. I haven't been good about taking pictures so i have to go back and take some. I have to wait until the snow melts though. I have some on film that I need to have scanned and fixed up and a couple jobs but I want to put them all up at once rather than just have a few.

I'm on the board though! Something I've been meaning to do for a long time.

http://brianwilsonconstruction.net

I tried working on one of these for a friend the other night. Along with slow load, it can't be optimized.
Main thing is, you're on the board!

Your name is now out there. I've transfer the domain to somewhere with real hosting after you get something like CoffeeCup and rebuild the site with some SEO capabilities. You won't be offline long enough to know the difference during the transfer.
You won't be able to transfer the actual site, but that's a plus.

dubz · 02-02-2009, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by tinner666

I tried working on one of these for a friend the other night. Along with slow load, it can't be optimized.
Main thing is, you're on the board!

Your name is now out there. I've transfer the domain to somewhere with real hosting after you get something like CoffeeCup and rebuild the site with some SEO capabilities. You won't be offline long enough to know the difference during the transfer.
You won't be able to transfer the actual site, but that's a plus.

Thanks. The slow to load thing isn't like that all the time. I just clicked it now, and it was up in less than a second. The other night it wasn't lagging either.

I've read your posts mentioning SEO a lot and have to research what that is. Of course money is tight now, so I'm going to try and do my own web stuff at least for now.

CreativeHomeImp · 02-02-2009, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by dubz

Thanks. The slow to load thing isn't like that all the time. I just clicked it now, and it was up in less than a second. The other night it wasn't lagging either.

I've read your posts mentioning SEO a lot and have to research what that is. Of course money is tight now, so I'm going to try and do my own web stuff at least for now.

maybe its who is hosting your site? What company is hosting it?

dubz · 02-02-2009, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by CreativeHomeImp

maybe its who is hosting your site? What company is hosting it?

Microsoft Office Live Small Business

It was free. You get what you pay for, you know?

CreativeHomeImp · 02-02-2009, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by dubz

Microsoft Office Live Small Business

It was free. You get what you pay for, you know?

defiantly

tinner666 · 02-02-2009, 02:50 PM

My friend said it was free for 3 months, then $10.00 per month. A transfer is $7.49 and hosting is $3.99 per month. CoffeeCup is $49. Add that up over a year, and if you're planning on staying around, multiply it.

When money was tigth, my site had GD ad on top and still pulled in many clients and the PR2-3. It fluctuates.

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