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MarkHarrison
Joined: 14 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 2:39 pm Post subject: Go on then - I'm up for it |
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Hi all (and especially Ros),
Your comments and suggestions on
www.yourpropertyexpert.com
please.
Please note that this is a UK-targetted site, so the spelling may strike you NA'ers are wrong 
Regards,
Mark |
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daddyg
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Mark,
Overall, I think it's very good, you've got loads of good content and the look of the site is easy on the eye. I have a couple of hopefully constructive criticisms:
i) The main center column text could probably do with some left and right margin's to seperate if from the left and right hand columns.
ii) The logo looks a little basic to me and personally I don't like the expert word on a different level. The red area to it's right could do with something in it, maybe some google ads or a banner or a gradient.
iii) Maybe offer a free ebook or mini course to build your ezine list. And I'd probably use bullets rather than paragraphs to highlight the ezine benefits. Maybe place the actual ezine form on the home page too rather than on a seperate page.
Anyway, nice job and good luck with it. |
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daddyg
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:37 pm Post subject: |
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One other thing I forgot to mention is maybe try adding some blockquotes or an image/graphic into the center column to break up the text a little bit. At the moment it looks a little too wordy to me.
You could use the float html tag and then wrap the words around it.
Hope that helps, |
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MarkHarrison
Joined: 14 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject: Thanks for the comments. |
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Thanks for the feedback. The logo is something I've never been 100% with (but having had a few hundred business cards printed up and 75% given out, I may not tweak until the next print run.)
Having read a bit more of Rosalind's stuff, and in conjunction with your points:
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The red area to it's right could do with something in it, maybe some google ads or a banner or a gradient. |
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| Quote: | | Maybe place the actual ezine form on the home page too rather than on a seperate page. |
... then perhaps the thing to do is put the "subscribe" form in that top right-hand corner? Does that strike you (all) as sensible?
On the "too much text on the home page", I agree - it does look a bit spartan. One thing that I've noticed is that a lot of other sites have "photo of the founder", and indeed I have my photo on my business card. Do you think that a "photo of the founder" is appropriate for web sites. (Rather, do you know whether anyone's studied whether it increases the perceived credibility of the message?) The alternative would be to put some shots of some of my rental properties up... but that strikes me as a bit unfair to my tenants - they probably don't want people to realise that they're renting!
On the "free book or mini-course", that is, I think, probably the way to go. I've got a sister site aimed at a slightly different vertical market under development, and I'm going to do the "sign up for the 7-part mini-course" on that. For that one, I'm also selling an ebook rather than physical (audio CD) product, and a one-day training course.
Thanks for taking the time to look over my site!
Regards,
Mark |
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Rosalind Gardner
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Joined: 02 Nov 2005
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Location: Beautiful BC, Canada
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Hey Mark,
Good work! I love the fact that you've got tons of content happening.
This is pretty picky, but I find the grey on red navigation at the top a little hard to read. Might be good to separate that a little from the main header.
Absolutely, add a picture of yourself. I think we should all have 'about us' pages with our pics. Does a world of good from a credibility standpoint.
I always recommend a newsletter signup on every page of your site. Treat each as a possible landing page, because they ARE!
You may want to consider having Vaughan or Ovi (at Killer Covers/Absolute Covers respectively) design a cover for your newsletter.
A cover graphic gives the appearance of something tangible. (Vaughan did the NetProfitsToday cover that you see at the bottom of this page).
You might want to consider giving the page a border with a slightly different coloured background, and perhaps lose the border on the Google Adsense... just ask Joel Comm about that one.
As for spelling... not all NA'ers drop their 'u's'.
Best of success with the site, Mark!
Cheers,
Ros |
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daddyg
Joined: 22 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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No problem and good luck with it.
Actually I've just taken a look at my last post and I was talking rubbish. Float isn't an html tag ofcourse but a CSS property. Sorry for the confusion, was writing quickly in my lunch break and wasn't thinking straight 
Cheers...DaddyG |
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MarkHarrison
Joined: 14 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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It's OK - I knew what you meant
Now done, even if I did cheat slightly and slip a style="float:right" into the HTML rather than create a proper class in the stylesheet.
You know how it is - at this time on a friday night (6pm local), you're happy to tweak the HTML a bit, but updating stylesheet feels like a "morning after the second coffee" task
Task for tomorrow - add the sign-up button into menu-top.php (which gets included by every other page to give, well, the top menu, but you probably guessed that.)
Regards,
Mark |
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