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Old 01-10-2007, 04:02 PM
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Question Need some feed back on my website

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I have made some updates to my website www.keeptrackconcierge.com and will like to get your feed back on:

A. Is the layout ok
B. Is the flow of the site working well
C. Can you navigate properly throughout the site

Please feel free to add any other comments you may have.

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Old 01-10-2007, 04:34 PM
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I think the layout and colors are OK, and I'll leave room for others to comment, but there are just a few things I will mention.

First, scrap the music. Although it is not bad, it is not needed and can work against you.

I would also draw emphasis to your loaction on the Home page. You are most likely targeting Europeans and/or Dutch, so I would draw more attention to that.

I would also unlink the pictures that do nothing more than just link to the picture itself. It's better if they are not links.
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Old 01-10-2007, 07:45 PM
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"LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT COMPANY" is really vague. The web site should tell us what you do.
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Old 01-11-2007, 06:19 AM
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I think the layout and colors are OK, and I'll leave room for others to comment, but there are just a few things I will mention.

First, scrap the music. Although it is not bad, it is not needed and can work against you.

I would also draw emphasis to your loaction on the Home page. You are most likely targeting Europeans and/or Dutch, so I would draw more attention to that.

I would also unlink the pictures that do nothing more than just link to the picture itself. It's better if they are not links.
Hoe gaat het Cbscreative

Thanks for taking the time to check out the site. I took your suggestions on board. With regards to making it clear to which group of people I am targeting I added on the front page a few lines.

The music, I find it difficult to loose it, so instead of getting ride of it I added a MUTE button so persons have a choice. The only one I am not sure about is getting rid of the links for the pictures. I checked and saw no link that I can take away, how can I do this?

Once again thanks
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Old 01-11-2007, 06:20 AM
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Hi Corey

Thanks for putting the site in the correct area.
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Old 01-11-2007, 06:21 AM
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"LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT COMPANY" is really vague. The web site should tell us what you do.
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Also thanks for checking out the site. I added some text to the Home page, hope it is no longer to vague.
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To remove the links, find the line in your html file:

<A href="pt123rf012260.jpg"><IMG border="0" src="pt123rf012260.jpg" width="144" height="108"></A>

Remove the <A href="pt123rf012260.jpg"> and the </A>, leaving only the image tag <IMG border="0" src="pt123rf012260.jpg" width="144" height="108">

Then make the same kind of changes to the other 2 image tags.

<A href="pd262706_s.jpg"><IMG border="0" src="pd262706_s.jpg" width="144" height="107"></A>

<A href="smr78060200002.jpg"><IMG border="0" src="smr78060200002.jpg" width="144" height="108"></A>
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Nicole,

I, too, like your layout. But you should get rid of the top margin, the aqua color, and some of the white space in your text areas. They force your page to scroll down and add nothing to the site.
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Thanks, Streetracer, you beat me to the answer and did a great job of describing what to do.

I would add only one thing. On your image tags, most of them have no alt= or it is empty, e.g. alt="". I would recommend putting this into all your image tags and fill in some kind of short description between the quote marks. In the old days, these were used mostly for browsers with images disabled for faster browsing, but the biggest reason for including them now is to help people who use screen readers to make sense out of your page.

To get rid of the music, scroll down to the bottom of your code and delete the following code:

<DIV style="position:absolute;left:816px;top:592px;widt h:37px;height:33px;z-index:13" align="left">
<OBJECT classid="clsid:CFCDAA03-8BE4-11cf-B84B-0020AFBBCCFA" width="37" height="33">
<PARAM name="src" value="(null)Christopher Cross - Sailing.mp3">
<PARAM name="autostart" value="true">
<PARAM name="controls" value="MuteCtrl">
<PARAM name="loop" value="true">
<PARAM name="console" value="audio">
<EMBED src="(null)Christopher Cross - Sailing.mp3" width="37" height="33" type="audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin" controls="MuteCtrl" console="audio" autostart="true" loop="true">
</OBJECT>

</DIV>

Removing this will eliminate the music.
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