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Re: new site
Gidday,
Can I suggest some changes? Don't take it personal, it's just my opinion here.
Unfortunately I think your homepage is too cluttered. You have a few messages here that clash and it just confuses the whole page.
I'd suggest - keep the menu and the fossil picture and lose the rest.
- change the black writing on the fossil picture to white as it is a little bit hard to read against the background
- get rid of the animated email (in fact hide your email address completely otherwise you are running the risk of screeds of spam)
Now take the Bonsai Tree and message about your Mum and give it a page of it's own - it deserves it. Set up a "lightbox" (look in left-hand menu of BlueVoda) pictures and place a few different photos of bonsais with descriptions. If you click on the current picture, it takes you to a slightly larger picture on a page with no navigation buttons.
Then have a serious think about the adverts which are large, and totally dominate the page and dilute your message. You need to move them to a separate links page or reduce them in size or both. I'd get rid of the Aussie one for a start and replace it with a Kiwi one (nah just kidding). The Mission advert could be reduced to just one of the small photos of one of the kids. You could then add a description that gets displayed upon mouseover, plus you could have the whole advert on a separate links page.
Whatever you decide however, I think it is advisable that your link to these pages opens a new tab - currently you are redirecting your audience away from your website altogether.
Only my opinion but I personally think that it will make your website tons more effective.
Good luck
Gidday,
Can I suggest some changes? Don't take it personal, it's just my opinion here.
Unfortunately I think your homepage is too cluttered. You have a few messages here that clash and it just confuses the whole page.
I'd suggest - keep the menu and the fossil picture and lose the rest.
- change the black writing on the fossil picture to white as it is a little bit hard to read against the background
- get rid of the animated email (in fact hide your email address completely otherwise you are running the risk of screeds of spam)
Now take the Bonsai Tree and message about your Mum and give it a page of it's own - it deserves it. Set up a "lightbox" (look in left-hand menu of BlueVoda) pictures and place a few different photos of bonsais with descriptions. If you click on the current picture, it takes you to a slightly larger picture on a page with no navigation buttons.
Then have a serious think about the adverts which are large, and totally dominate the page and dilute your message. You need to move them to a separate links page or reduce them in size or both. I'd get rid of the Aussie one for a start and replace it with a Kiwi one (nah just kidding). The Mission advert could be reduced to just one of the small photos of one of the kids. You could then add a description that gets displayed upon mouseover, plus you could have the whole advert on a separate links page.
Whatever you decide however, I think it is advisable that your link to these pages opens a new tab - currently you are redirecting your audience away from your website altogether.
Only my opinion but I personally think that it will make your website tons more effective.
Good luck
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