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Hen81
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Username: Hen81
Post Number: 152
Registered: 09-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 - 02:01 pm: | 
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I basically blew up my website and rebuilt it. I came to the realization that it had hit the wall and the old layout could not do what I needed with all of the various types of book formats I had out now. It's funny to realize that what I had just could not be modified any longer and the best thing was to start from stratch.
I'm sure that I wiil make some changes to the new site, but it seems to be less busy and more simply laid out. I'm trying to get to more of a portal than a site.
Please visit and give me some feedback.
www.DTPollard.com |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 1614
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 - 04:37 pm: |
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Hey man I cruised the site a bit. I can relate to having to rebuild a site. There are some many things that have to come together to make a site happens -- it is a wonder so many people do it.
I see you are not finished so I can't really comment too much because a lot is missing; but I'll give you a few comments:
I would change the menu bar at bit.
- Consolidate the books into a single link on the menu. If you write any more books you'll be adding addiitonal items to the menu which will get cumbersome.
- On the menu bar I would rename "DTPollard - Candlelight" to simply "Home"
- Drop the candlelight logo from the pages or at least link it with descriptive alt text. It took me a minute to figure out what that meant (I had to look at the other pages on the site)
-Change "News" to "Press Releases" and be sure I assume you'll be adding links to the releases
- change "Read Responsibly - Energy Impact" to "Articles" again you may want to link to more articles and you won;t be adding additional menu items to do this.
- Your favorite links page is missing a couple of links ;-)
- Lose the hit counter on all the pages (that is so 90's)
- take photo and bio off homepage and add to to the "About the author" page
- rework the homepage a bit. think about what you want visitors to "get" right away and develop content for the page around that idea. |
Hen81
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Username: Hen81
Post Number: 153
Registered: 09-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 - 03:21 pm: |
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Troy, thanks for the feedback. I have incorporated some of your suggestions and the site does appear sleeker.
I added a few links also.
www.DTPollard.com |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 7607
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 - 10:41 am: |
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This is the thing with a website.
Hot websites change daily,several times a day in fact.
You gotta keep up the novelty. Keep it going. |
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