I've had a makeover!
Ah.. yes, I am LV, will have a look in firefox later, just off for my chilli and rioja
Don't waste energy on things you can't change.
Costa de la Luz apartment rental
www.ownersdirect.co.uk/spain/S5386.htm
Costa de la Luz apartment rental
www.ownersdirect.co.uk/spain/S5386.htm
LV achieves such a high level of bookings, I get the impression if she stood at the top of her road and shouted 'gites', the punters would still come rolling in. However, a much improved site - Richard's hallmark cool and crisp and easy to whizz around. The organisation of the gites section is vastly better.
My only niggles are photographic: I'd prefer all the pictures in the gite section to be specifically of the gites (inside and out) and not to have pix of the pool or gardens (which are better used elsewhere on the site). The first of the 'three in a row' pictures in the 'Local Attractions' section lacks density and two of the town pix in the bottom row have blank skies which makes them merge into the light background (it's easy to put a thin dark border around pix on a light background to get around this problem).
Congratulations to Richard and LV for a good job.
Jim
My only niggles are photographic: I'd prefer all the pictures in the gite section to be specifically of the gites (inside and out) and not to have pix of the pool or gardens (which are better used elsewhere on the site). The first of the 'three in a row' pictures in the 'Local Attractions' section lacks density and two of the town pix in the bottom row have blank skies which makes them merge into the light background (it's easy to put a thin dark border around pix on a light background to get around this problem).
Congratulations to Richard and LV for a good job.
Jim
It's not fair but it's a rule of the road that, if your site is mediocre, you can get away with murder. If it's excellent, any small niggles will stand out in stark relief. As always, the devil is in the details.the reason I added some garden shots was that I ran out of interior shots to fill up the second line of photos
Jim
Thanks to everyone who commented - the site has now gone live after changing a couple of the photos as suggested by Jimbo. I'm just updating the French version which is a piece of cake as Richard has organised all the previously messy site files so meticulously (I promise to keep them in order, Richard)
I'd just like to publicly thank e Richard for the fantastic job he has done on the site, I'm really proud of it
I'd just like to publicly thank e Richard for the fantastic job he has done on the site, I'm really proud of it
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Hi,
The re-vamped site looks great! Clear, nice pix, easy to use. Well done to you both.
I particularly like the feature with the "snapshots" overlaid on each other - very nice! And an interesting way of displaying several photos of the same room without prompting groans of "not the kitchen table again".
And I like the layout of the guestbook page too.
One tiny point, and that may just be because you haven't finished everything completely: you have "picture title" showing as the alt tag / title for many of your photos, rather than a real caption. (that's probably not the technical term but I hope you know what I mean - when you place the cursor on the photo it just says "picture title" rather than "our fab pool" or whatever.)
Well done - and may it bring you lots of bookings!
The re-vamped site looks great! Clear, nice pix, easy to use. Well done to you both.
I particularly like the feature with the "snapshots" overlaid on each other - very nice! And an interesting way of displaying several photos of the same room without prompting groans of "not the kitchen table again".
And I like the layout of the guestbook page too.
One tiny point, and that may just be because you haven't finished everything completely: you have "picture title" showing as the alt tag / title for many of your photos, rather than a real caption. (that's probably not the technical term but I hope you know what I mean - when you place the cursor on the photo it just says "picture title" rather than "our fab pool" or whatever.)
Well done - and may it bring you lots of bookings!
Lounging on the lily pad...
Look great in both safari and firefox now LV. Just noticed one thing, on the 'click for availability' the 'S' at the end of Les Hirondelles is showing in black type.
Don't waste energy on things you can't change.
Costa de la Luz apartment rental
www.ownersdirect.co.uk/spain/S5386.htm
Costa de la Luz apartment rental
www.ownersdirect.co.uk/spain/S5386.htm
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Hi LV
Party's post made me look a bit more at the rates page. I am not used to booking short breaks in France. In fact I've never been, but would love to, especially your place.
I just found it a bit confusing to work out what I would have to pay, I could see the weekly rate, but then I looked at the nightly rate, then I found this wasn't available at certain times (May - Sept) but maybe it was? then I had to add the bedding hire if it was.
Sorry if I'm being very picky, I probably am, as someone said, it's easy to pick holes in a really good site.
I just got a bit confused and it took me some time to work it out. Of course that could be due to the bottle of Cyprus brandy my mum brought round for me yesterday that I cracked open half an hour ago. Just ignore my ramblings!!!
Ruth
Party's post made me look a bit more at the rates page. I am not used to booking short breaks in France. In fact I've never been, but would love to, especially your place.
I just found it a bit confusing to work out what I would have to pay, I could see the weekly rate, but then I looked at the nightly rate, then I found this wasn't available at certain times (May - Sept) but maybe it was? then I had to add the bedding hire if it was.
Sorry if I'm being very picky, I probably am, as someone said, it's easy to pick holes in a really good site.
I just got a bit confused and it took me some time to work it out. Of course that could be due to the bottle of Cyprus brandy my mum brought round for me yesterday that I cracked open half an hour ago. Just ignore my ramblings!!!
Ruth