New Cabin Site

saustin · #1 03-14-2007, 05:10 AM

What do you think?! Any comments or suggestions appreciated!
http://www.trailsend-cabins.com/

Karen Mac · #2 03-14-2007, 05:16 AM

Its looking pretty good! On your cabin page your one bedroom and two bedroom sits right down ontop of the text in my browser, you might allow for just a smidgeon more space there..

Geeze.. I cant smoke, I cant bring my dog and cats! LOLOL.. Im teasing, i realize these make for wear and tear on property, but.. alot of people will want to bring animals.. I think on this kind of get away!

Karen

saustin · #3 03-14-2007, 05:34 AM

I tried to move the text down. Did it work? In my browser it is ok, so it's hard for me to know how much to move it down?? Anyone else having that problem too??

Thanks for the comment!!

TrickyRick · #4 03-14-2007, 05:39 AM

Saustin,

I like your site, like the color scheme, goes well with your theme "TrailsEnd". I like the directions page but I would suggest that you open up a new browser when your visitors click on "click here for map". By doing this, you don't loose your visitor. With so many things going on in the MapQuest window, your visitor might drift off to something else rather than hitting the Back Key to bring them back to your site.

I believe the way you do this is when you insert your Hyperlink, from the HyperLink window, find the field labeled "Title" click on the down arrow and select "_blank". That should do it.

Oh, and I agree with Karen on the pet issue, smoking I can do with out but I don't know if I could go anywhere like that without my pup.

Site is looking good, keep up the great work!

TrickyRick · #5 03-14-2007, 05:58 AM

Saustin,

My bad on one thing, find the field labeled "Title" should read, find the field labeled "Target".

Ooops!

saustin · #6 03-14-2007, 06:00 AM

Wonderful! Thank you :)

And sorry guys...mother-in-law says no pets.

TrickyRick · #7 03-14-2007, 06:05 AM

LOL, there are some places that say "No Mother-n-laws".

saustin · #8 03-14-2007, 06:08 AM

HA! I wish!

Love your quote by the way....

Vasili · #9 03-14-2007, 06:10 AM

Mother-in-Law, huh?
Well.......I guess it could be worse! LOL

Might want to start thinking about properly Titling your pages, and after using the KeyWord Digger (in BV), start to also SEO-prepare your site best you can....although most of your hard-rank will come from unique visits due to your promotion and placement in relevant directories and other strategic envoirnments, Content and site relevancy is still going to be important for a smaller site like this!

Well designed, and clarified logistics express the clean site as meant to be.
Good Work!

AmaDee · #10 03-14-2007, 06:50 AM

I like your site. Simple, yet clean. Not a lot of people can do that. Good job.

Vasili · #11 03-15-2007, 04:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by AmaDee

I like your site. Simple, yet clean. Not a lot of people can do that. Good job.

Concisely designed Simplicity can be "bare minimum" and still be incredibly effective, like this!
This "SE non-compliant" minimalist site is not constructed with SEO metrics in mind: all "traffic" is purposefully the result of traditional marketing, complimentary promotion, and direct referral! (Helps to minimize the workload that comes in, assuring 100% fulfillment)

Dream Lady · #12 03-19-2007, 12:09 AM

Wonderful website. I think you have done very well. You will want to listen to vasili about the search engine optimization. You might want to search for a pdf file that Brethers has put together that has some great info.

Also, I noticed that the only page that is centered is your home page. You may want to center the rest of them.

Congratulations on a great job!
Cindy

choco777 · #13 03-19-2007, 01:17 AM

Maybe might want to use same header for all pages and center. One photo on attractions page second row last pix the photo is flawed and takes away from a Great looking site. Really like the color scheme.

saustin · #14 03-19-2007, 06:18 PM

I thought all my pages were centered....not sure to fix that???

And I must have been in the middle of updating my site when you noticed that the headers weren't all the same....they are now :)

How do I maximize my search engine searches for my site to come up?? I've tried to name the pages in a certain way, but is there more to it?

Oh, and not sure what you mean by the one photo being flawed??

aconstas1 · #15 03-19-2007, 06:34 PM

There's quite a bit to it. Your keywords play a part in some of the search engines. Your page descriptions play a part. You want to have rich original text on your sites, and key words that match that text. You want to have a sitemap. You want to submit your sitemap to google. Probably one of the most impartant things is your incoming links. You want to join forums about travel and camping or cabins and bed and brekfast places. there you can post on those forums. You want to make sure that you're URL is in the signature of your posts. You also want to try to get other web sites that are related to yours to post a link to your site on their site. Those kind of links do a lot of good.

Let me make a suggestion. Your contact email would look more professional and legitimate if you used your webmail from vodahost. If you want to, you can redirect all of your emails to that address to your hotmail account. Businesses using hotmail, aol, msn, or yahoo accounts are often looked upon as unprofessional. I use my aol, so i just have everything redirected to my aol email. Good luck.

saustin · #16 03-19-2007, 06:40 PM

Thank you for the suggestions. I will definitely look into them!

I have a question though....how come the font I originally used shows up differently on different computers? Is there a way to keep it the same on all?

aconstas1 · #17 03-19-2007, 06:44 PM

Its because different computers use different browsers.

There's not much you can do. Internet explorer is different from mozilla and netscape and all the other browsers out there. they all see things the same, but choose to display them differently. They do it to differentiate between them so that they can get customers to choose one browser over another. You can just try to make the most browser friendly page you can and the rest is really just up to them.