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by BlueSkyBlueSea
Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:23 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Your comments on my website please
Replies: 8
Views: 2455

Well, I quite like this website. It shows me what I want and with a bit of polishing it should really help drive business. There are a couple of things however that haven't been mentioned. On the gallery page you have an image slider which is made from flash. There really is no good reason to use fl...
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Mon Jul 23, 2012 10:07 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: New to this and new website
Replies: 11
Views: 3077

Hi, Just a small observation as I quite like the site overall. Your image slider appears on every page so I think it would work better if it displayed the images in a random order. If I click through to new pages quite quickly I always seem to see the same image. By making it random someone could se...
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Mon Jul 23, 2012 9:57 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Please review my site
Replies: 6
Views: 1953

I would agree with the above especially in regrads to losing the frames. In addition I would move your telephone number, email address and possibly the social share links to your header. You could make your Tregrill Farm Cottages text a little smaller and at the same time change this from an image t...
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:26 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: How do you decide on a web address for your site?
Replies: 12
Views: 3924

I know you have picked your domain now but this maybe useful to others. Domain names do hold a bit of weight when it comes to searches - if the keywords someone types into Google are in your domain you should rank well in the results. So what I do is think of what people would put into a search engi...
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:14 pm
Forum: Bookings
Topic: Strange 2012 so far!
Replies: 138
Views: 42111

Allegedly the jet stream is finally going to move north again soon so perhaps those with cottages in northern France and the UK will see a rush of last minute bookings with the better weather. At least that is what I am hoping for!
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:48 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Comments & ideas for later in the year
Replies: 3
Views: 1506

Hi, Have a quick Google on "above the fold". Currently your home page has a lot of information on it but I have to scroll down to find it. Another major issue is page load time. This is down to the quantity and size of your images. For example, your top image is 473k which is huge for a si...
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:15 am
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Pets Not Welcome Websites
Replies: 10
Views: 1835

Glad you got there in the end. Think I'll chalk that one up to the vagaries of the internet. When I tried it did take about 10 seconds to connect so perhaps they need to upgrade their servers. Talking of vagaries of the internet one of your sites, Travel In Papers is coming up with a bad_httpd_conf ...
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:58 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Pets Not Welcome Websites
Replies: 10
Views: 1835

I just tried to 'book' this cottage in Portland, but couldn't: http://www.portlandholidaylet.co.uk/portland-holiday-cottage/chapel-cottage.php Hi Garri, I just tried the booking button and it went through to the booking page on Cottages4You okay for me. At what stage did you have issues? If it is a...
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Tue Apr 19, 2011 5:03 pm
Forum: OTAs: Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking, Tripadvisor, etc.
Topic: Pets Not Welcome Websites
Replies: 10
Views: 1835

I run a small cottage listing website (it's very area specific so unless you have a cottage in Portland you can't come on! :) ) but when I was doing my research I found it would be useful to people browsing the website to be able to choose whether they wanted pet friendly, avoid pets or just do a se...
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:07 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: New Website...May I have reviews?
Replies: 73
Views: 13780

Ok, lets put CSS on hold for a day or two and start driving traffic. Lets do this through quality links. One of the best ways of finding quality links is see who your competition are on. You do this by: Entering one of your keywords in Google and see who comes up. Copy their URL and visit http://sit...
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:14 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: New Website...May I have reviews?
Replies: 73
Views: 13780

David,

Glad you are finding this usefull. My next suggestions will be around CSS - the so useful styling language that goes alongside HTML. Are you up to speed enough for me to give you some ideas? It will help your page and help you with future layouts if you can get your head around it.
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Sun Apr 17, 2011 2:35 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: New Website...May I have reviews?
Replies: 73
Views: 13780

Can I put that down to early morning and a laptop that has seen better days? As blunders go though one of my bigger typos.

And thanks for highlighting it! :oops:
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Sun Apr 17, 2011 8:02 am
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: New Website...May I have reviews?
Replies: 73
Views: 13780

Morning, As others have said a big improvement but also lots that you could still improve upon. I won't cover all in this post as I don't want to swamp you with ideas and changes but lets start with some of the more important areas. You say you are having trouble with a hidden hits cunter. My advice...
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:44 am
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: New Website...May I have reviews?
Replies: 73
Views: 13780

Are we out of the sandbox now? Are you ready for some feedback? All constructive, naturally :lol: .
by BlueSkyBlueSea
Sat Apr 16, 2011 7:31 am
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Link exchange
Replies: 2
Views: 1166

Hello, If you go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ and enter your web address in the Explore URL box it will show you all your website pages and also, if you press the inlinks button, all the websites linking to yours. This should show who you used so you can get back in contact with them and...