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14-11-2010 7:27pm#1Hi, I am in the process of completing my first ever website. I am completely self taught so im sure there is problems!
I am hoping ye would be able to give feedback on www.holidayvillafuerteventura.com This site will hopefully help me to rent out the villa to people travelling to Fuerteventura. This will be used alongside advertising I currently use on big villa rental websites. So the idea of this site is that I could refer people to it for more information if they find me on one of the Villa sites and also hopefully get some new customers directly.
Dont hold back im sure there is plenty of problems!
Also im sure we could organise a bit of a reduction for anybody on here who wanted a trip to the Canaries as a thank you for taking a look, just mention boards.ie on the reservations form
(Mods I assume it isnt against the charter to offer that, I can remove if you want) 0
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Light grey text on white has bad readability. Contrast is your friend. Not a fan of your colour choices.
No postal contact information - vital for trust.
No map.
No how to get there (airlines, car rental etc.)
Some of the photos are bad quality.
You need to use your content better wrt SEO. Proper use of headings, strong, etc.
Links broken/pages not found: Dining room.html
Don't use spaces in filenames.
Why have review and email testomonials separate? Why is the german one not translated?
Homepage replace 'Welcome' with something that has SEO value.
DON'T USE POPUPs - grrrr. (or disable scrolling)
The booking form placement puts the cart before the horse for 2 reasons: having it on the homepage is too early in the process, the user hasn't yet read enough to start making a purchase decision but more importantly, the user should be able to check the available dates before attempting to book. Trying to make a booking only to find it unavailable annoys users. Don't bury the prices link, put it on more pages or change the text and page function to something like 'pricing and availability'.
Use a spellchecker.
Forms could be laid out better and have better styling.
Some of the current page text link styling is off - made smaller in some places and bigger in others.
No background colour specified.
You have a 404 page, but make it more useful by sticking something like a sitemap there.
Some of the pages have little text content. They also tell users to use the menu of the lhs. This should be obvious so as not to have to tell users.
No links to external things to do like golf clubs and other resources/activities etc.
gl/hth
Thanks alot for the feedback, some of the issues I was aware of (e.g. quality of pics - heading out there to ensure I have plenty, my main problem is I have a shortage of pics to put up) im also working on adding new content such as the maps, airlines, car rental, links etc.
I assume you are on about the calendar popup when you are talking about the scrolling popup I think I will integrate it into a page. I thought I had fixed my terrible spelling ill look into that! I was thinking the grey/silver might have been a bit light. Ill darken it up. Maybe its just me but I like the Silver and Gold links.
Once again tricky thanks for the comments I will be working on them
Any help anybody can give me on SEO would be great. I have made an attempt e.g. alt tags, title tags, bolded and italicised font. I am a complete beginner at it though so any help from anybody would be appreciated.
Trojan can I take it you just think the site is terrible in general?Trojan wrote:Fair play tricky D, you're a patient man! 0 -
Not just the calendar, but the feedback form too. Keeping it simple, avoid popups altogether unless you have a very, very good reason to use them - you don't.I assume you are on about the calendar popup when you are talking about the scrolling popup I think I will integrate it into a page.
Testomonial was the only one I noticed, but I didn't read much of the text because....I thought I had fixed my terrible spelling ill look into that!
... I have slight difficulty reading grey on grey text partly due to very mild colourblindness. (I can easily enough but usually don't) It's also hard for older users or those with vision issues to read. That accounts for a lot more of the market than you realise. Wrt link colours, design for your users, not you.I was thinking the grey/silver might have been a bit light. Ill darken it up. Maybe its just me but I like the Silver and Gold links.Any help anybody can give me on SEO would be great. I have made an attempt e.g. alt tags, title tags, bolded and italicised font. I am a complete beginner at it though so any help from anybody would be appreciated.
strong not b, and use headings logically: h1 once for your main headings, h2 for any subs (you could have more of them), etc... Focus more on keywords with particular attention to locality. Three very important ones are in your domain name which is great.Trojan can I take it you just think the site is terrible in general?
He might be commenting on the regularity of my reviews.
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Trojan can I take it you just think the site is terrible in general?
Hey cooperguy, no, don't take it as completely negative! There are a lot of issues with the site, but really it's not bad at all for a first site, particularly if you're self taught.
My comment to tricky D is because I often come in here to the Reviews forum and see sites that need a lot of work. I usually think "Where to start, there's a lot to comment on", and I don't have the time to write it up: most of my posts in this forum are about 1-2 issues per site, not exhaustive lists like from some of the other contributors. Then tricky D comes along with a massive post giving great feedback on all the stuff I was thinking about! Kudos due.
cooperguy, it's good to see you take the feedback in such a positive manner.
On SEO, tricky D mentioned use of headings, here's some more info on that.0 -
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