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by pizza-salsa
Fri Mar 08, 2013 1:12 pm
Forum: Personal websites
Topic: Naming my Website
Replies: 12
Views: 2835

Stag`s Rock
both words would suggest to me a place for stag parties with lots of rock music...

if your target market is more "family" or couples, I agree with above posters and add cottage, or villa or retreat to the name of the holiday home
by pizza-salsa
Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:08 pm
Forum: Just starting out
Topic: What do you call your holiday home?
Replies: 13
Views: 2760

our holiday home is divided into 2 apartments so we wanted to give each one a nice name, rather than calling them "ground floor flat" and "first floor flat" or apt A and apt B. So we've called the ground floor Apartment Bella and the first floor Apartment Vista and putting them t...
by pizza-salsa
Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:06 am
Forum: Social media
Topic: Post your Facebook pages to be 'Liked'
Replies: 151
Views: 103905

by pizza-salsa
Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:39 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Youtube
Replies: 13
Views: 2853

nightowl that video is really really excellent! so quirky, so modern, so inviting! what an excellent idea!.
I agree it's a bit too long, but that's the only very small negative comment.
by pizza-salsa
Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:25 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Review My Website
Replies: 18
Views: 5326

very nice website, easy to navigate. If I click on the pictures at the bottom (front page), I am not taken to a separate section, but just given a larger picture, maybe remove the ability to click on them? About Us page, second paragraph We bought this lovely Cottage because of its superb position a...
by pizza-salsa
Thu Jan 31, 2013 9:08 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Blogs and suchlike!
Replies: 27
Views: 6141

Paddy, having clicked on you main website, there are spelling and grammar mistakes on the front page Welcome, Alpe della Luna near the Renaisance town of Sansepolcro (should read Renaissance) Paragraph under the Fondo All'albero pictures: lines 4,5,6, should read "its" and not "it's&q...
by pizza-salsa
Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:55 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Blogs and suchlike!
Replies: 27
Views: 6141

hi Paddy. I have looked at your Blog again and is sooooo much better!!! There is a much better balance now between text and photos, and the pictures break up each post and make it more interesting and easier to read. You are right to just write up text when you get ideas and just use it for future p...
by pizza-salsa
Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:42 am
Forum: The Workshop
Topic: The importance of perspective in photography
Replies: 9
Views: 2070

They say pictures speak louder than words.
But sometimes all is not what you see....
I will take a picture like that of our pool to make it look bigger!!
by pizza-salsa
Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:55 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Blogs and suchlike!
Replies: 27
Views: 6141

hello Paddy totally agree with FC's comments above. We did the same and started the blog 2 years ago, this summer our first couple of bookings/guests come from the Blog!! And agree that it all takes time and dedication, to find the time to write, make it interesting, interact with the blogging commu...
by pizza-salsa
Mon Jan 28, 2013 2:29 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Some site feedback please
Replies: 13
Views: 2781

Best of luck!
by pizza-salsa
Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:45 am
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Blogs and suchlike!
Replies: 27
Views: 6141

Paddy I have listed my blog in various ex-pats blogs listings, like http://www.expatsblog.com/ http://www.expat-blog.com/ http://www.expatica.com/ I also promote it in WordPress, amongst other bloggers (ie reading and exchanging comments in the blogging community, I have about 180 followers so far) ...
by pizza-salsa
Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:23 am
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Blogs and suchlike!
Replies: 27
Views: 6141

QUOTE FROM NEMO It brought a new level to the holiday that meant I enjoyed that stay more than any other, as I was already immersed into the place & the area before arriving. Having a slight personal connection also meant I cared more that they should be a success; hence on being asked for feedb...
by pizza-salsa
Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:53 pm
Forum: Just starting out
Topic: Sofa bed or not?
Replies: 26
Views: 14520

we have put in a sofa bed in our 2-bedroom apartment so it can sleep 6. Sofabed is extremely comfortable, easy to make up and turn back into a sofa in the morning. I have slept in it myself many times. We are putting it a sofabed also in the 1 bed-apartment so it can sleep 4. As said by others, it g...
by pizza-salsa
Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:47 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Looking for website critique
Replies: 16
Views: 4023

hello Carl your villa looks great, and so does the website. Gallery, the pictures of the house are jumbled up with pictures of the locality etc. If possible I would like to look at all the pictures of the house together, then all the pictures of the neighbourhood, beach etc. Section Summer House com...
by pizza-salsa
Sun Jan 27, 2013 5:15 pm
Forum: Website reviews
Topic: Some site feedback please
Replies: 13
Views: 2781

hello Anne great properties, like the website, you have a variety of accommodation looks like you've made the most of the space. Some comments front page, it refers to Sandiego di Compostella should it not be Santiago de Compostela? B&B - is there a TV in each room? BBQ, you mention the weekly B...