Is my new website a tad too wacky?
Posted: Sun May 03, 2015 9:21 am
Dear All,
After dithering for England on the matter, I have eventually got an old (boy)friend to do this website for me. He's very old inasmuch as we were together at 17, and split at 20-almost 30 years ago.
http://www.oxfordvacationrental.com
Obviously I'm very grown up now and I hope I didn't regress too much with silly pictures and awful puns. In all seriousness it has to work but I don't want anything *vanilla* and I do say that my properties are quirky (they are but in a nice way). So have I inserted a bit too much of my wacky side?
So far, I've asked a repeat US visitor who has said he likes it, and 2 friends- one of whom loves the blower picture and pun and one of whom hates it. Oh- but I have managed to check and blower doesn't mean anything awful in US. Funky does, and I took that out of one of my slidey picture captions!
Anyway, would you good people be kind enough to tell me what you think. Ahead of your comments, my own observations and aspirations are:
1-a slidey photo thing on tourist info with pictures of Oxford and number of minutes walk from one property or another.
2-I've also registered the url's oxford holiday.com and .co.uk and will use the former, when it's migrated from where it is to winhost who my XBF used.
3-Is there any techy stuff I should convey to XBF. He asked me to send it to all my friends and if adjustments needed I should ask on what devices and browsers. I can already see on my iPhone that that the contact and about page need re-sizing.
4-I'm thinking about a discount page for last minute bookings, but still dithering and may just offer on HL, eBay etc.
Thanks so much in advance
Bridget
After dithering for England on the matter, I have eventually got an old (boy)friend to do this website for me. He's very old inasmuch as we were together at 17, and split at 20-almost 30 years ago.
http://www.oxfordvacationrental.com
Obviously I'm very grown up now and I hope I didn't regress too much with silly pictures and awful puns. In all seriousness it has to work but I don't want anything *vanilla* and I do say that my properties are quirky (they are but in a nice way). So have I inserted a bit too much of my wacky side?
So far, I've asked a repeat US visitor who has said he likes it, and 2 friends- one of whom loves the blower picture and pun and one of whom hates it. Oh- but I have managed to check and blower doesn't mean anything awful in US. Funky does, and I took that out of one of my slidey picture captions!
Anyway, would you good people be kind enough to tell me what you think. Ahead of your comments, my own observations and aspirations are:
1-a slidey photo thing on tourist info with pictures of Oxford and number of minutes walk from one property or another.
2-I've also registered the url's oxford holiday.com and .co.uk and will use the former, when it's migrated from where it is to winhost who my XBF used.
3-Is there any techy stuff I should convey to XBF. He asked me to send it to all my friends and if adjustments needed I should ask on what devices and browsers. I can already see on my iPhone that that the contact and about page need re-sizing.
4-I'm thinking about a discount page for last minute bookings, but still dithering and may just offer on HL, eBay etc.
Thanks so much in advance
Bridget