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Customer Website Reviews - Your Testing Ground Are you ready to show your website to the world? Are your hyperlinks working?, Do you have any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors? How does it look? How can it be improved? Have your website reviewed and critiqued by other VodaHost Community Forum Members. DO NOT BE SHY!!! We want to see it , we are here to help each other. This is your testing ground.

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Old 05-05-2008, 08:35 PM
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Default My site I hope it is ready!

Take a Look?


What do you think need a extra set of eyes!
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Old 05-05-2008, 09:25 PM
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Confidential... Awesome is a word that comes to mind..!
one thing, I would add some small photos of you guys doing your work on the home page, a good image will grab your potential customer and will let them see exactly what the site is about without having to read all the text first.
just a thought
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Old 05-05-2008, 09:35 PM
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I like your portfolio page, Nice effect with the photo's. I did notice however that you had 2 lines of scrolling text on yor pages. My eyes didn't know which one to look at first. I would probably go with one per page so it had gets the visitors full attention.

Looks great though - nice one!

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Old 05-05-2008, 09:40 PM
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Real nice site just 2 things to tweak at 1 on your privacy policies you have two about us menu bars each go to a seperate page also the same on your gallery page, also where ever it says licensed and insures make it a drop small in tex the word guaranteed is sticking out of the box. well good luck with it.
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Old 05-05-2008, 10:01 PM
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Default Re: My site I hope it is ready!

Confidential Touch,

Whilst this should be linked to your previous review... I'd still like to mention that in comparison to your previous look, this is 100% better and you are on the right track.

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Old 05-05-2008, 10:05 PM
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Default Re: My site I hope it is ready!

I wrote the above review and tried to return to your home page.
Where's the link???LOL
Stick it above the 'about us' button...

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Old 05-06-2008, 01:44 AM
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Thank you everyone for your feed back. I as well notice the Menu bars are changing every time different from the more pages you click back and forward from. I am currently beta testing Blue Voda 10 and this seems to be one of the recent bugs/glitches I have come across. I am currently trouble shooting it now. But once again you all are magnificent!

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Old 05-06-2008, 10:56 AM
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Thank you everyone for your feed back. I as well notice the Menu bars are changing every time different from the more pages you click back and forward from. I am currently beta testing Blue Voda 10 and this seems to be one of the recent bugs/glitches I have come across. I am currently trouble shooting it now. But once again you all are magnificent!

Confidential Touch
Hi Confidential Touch,

I may have been a little vague it my last post... Add a 'Home' (return to home page link) Button to your existing nav bar, as visitors will often return to your home page while surfing your site and more importantly they could have landed on one of your other pages and would like to visit your home page.

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Old 05-06-2008, 12:20 PM
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Wow that is much better with your own designed pages...very noice. :)

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Old 05-06-2008, 01:18 PM
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Site looks good, did not know that about the bulbs.. Am going to change my bulbs as soon asap!

Cheers M
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Old 05-06-2008, 06:05 PM
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how do i make my own web site...?
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Old 05-06-2008, 06:19 PM
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how do i make my own web site...?
download the bluevoda website builder, watch the tutorials, repeat the tutorials, sign up for a vodahost account, publish and enjoy its about that easy !
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Old 05-06-2008, 06:24 PM
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Hi, ditto with to many scrolling things. Your off to a good start & the site has a nice feel. But! only my opinion, some of the pages feel the wrong way around. When you land on the site it feels like the about us page.
I would of thought a big splash of the discount coupons & to call us with some promotion on the front page of your offers in short detail & off to another page for some more in-depth detail if needed.
Would be nice to promote some goodies like some of the better quality ct clamp meters with remote monitoring of power consumption so customers can cut back on there usage of power, or offer a free one with 500 plus dollars worth of work.
Also need a home button on all your pages.

Good luck.
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Old 05-06-2008, 06:30 PM
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What do you think need a extra set of eyes!
Hi,
On your Portfolio page, you have two About Us buttons, lol. Have you tried the advice given in your other thread about your duplicating glass buttons?
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Old 05-06-2008, 08:27 PM
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I took your advice Tom this is more than just a issue it is a serious Beta Blue Voda 10 Bug. I am starting to think it has to do with the blend effect.
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Old 05-09-2008, 04:29 AM
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I worked out the Button Bugs and now the site is fully working. I appreciate everyones info. I am currently speaking with the owner on the About Us. Everything in that page is going into my Specials/Daily Tab I just needed to fill in some blanks.
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Old 05-09-2008, 07:09 AM
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I worked out the Button Bugs and now the site is fully working. I appreciate everyones info. I am currently speaking with the owner on the About Us. Everything in that page is going into my Specials/Daily Tab I just needed to fill in some blanks.
Hi,
What was the bug?
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Old 05-13-2008, 07:14 AM
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Tom,
The problem I was having with the glass buttons was them blending into each other with the same name. Such as Home would blend with contact us. At the end of it all I finnally said forget copy and paste I am doing this page by page button by button and "presto". Problem solved. Thank you for all your great advice I do appreciate it.


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