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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 05-14-2008, 07:08 PM
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I'm busy with my first website built with the new BlueVoda 10. Please could I have your comments and crits. www.homefinishes.co.za

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Old 05-14-2008, 07:16 PM
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LOL This might help... www.homefinishes.co.za
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Old 05-14-2008, 07:34 PM
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Hi Andrew, Usual great looking site. Like the style & colour’s.
The only thing I am not convinced on just yet is the way parts of the side menus work. Feels like you should be able to click on the button to get to a url & not just the text. It also feels that you can click on the header to a menu it feels like a link & when you do, the menu disappears. Not sure how 1st time users will get on with it. Naval did a revamp on this menu to work a little differently & was a lot better.
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Old 05-14-2008, 07:46 PM
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Hi,
Some of your links is not working.
Do you find sanitary ware in kitchens and bathrooms.
Nice original site.
I see you are from the Eastern Cape where I grew up.
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Old 05-14-2008, 07:50 PM
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Hi Andrew, Usual great looking site. Like the style & colour’s.
The only thing I am not convinced on just yet is the way parts of the side menus work. Feels like you should be able to click on the button to get to a url & not just the text. It also feels that you can click on the header to a menu it feels like a link & when you do, the menu disappears. Not sure how 1st time users will get on with it. Naval did a revamp on this menu to work a little differently & was a lot better.
Hi Chris,

Yes, I've been watching the BV10 bug report and holding thumbs that the menu changes suggested by Naval and yourself find there way into BV10E.

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Old 05-14-2008, 07:58 PM
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Hi Andrew. Great looking site, but then everything I've seen of yours is top notch. I am nowhere near your standard but my only observation are the delivery, credit application, Return Policy & Warranty links, where when clicked they open as a pdf. I often find there is a time lag while waiting for the pages to open. It might be just me, but as a visitor expecting a just a regular web page, I find these pdf pages quite irritating.

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Hi,
Some of your links is not working.
Do you find sanitary ware in kitchens and bathrooms.
Nice original site.
I see you are from the Eastern Cape where I grew up.
Hi Leo,
I asked the same question as I studied 'Construction Management' a long time ago and was asked to change 'kitchen fittings' to 'kitchen sanitaryware'. I'm waiting on a some content which i'll pick up from a little town you might remember called Humansdorp.

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Old 05-14-2008, 08:12 PM
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Hi Andrew. Great looking site, but then everything I've seen of yours is top notch. I am nowhere near your standard but my only observation are the delivery, credit application, Return Policy & Warranty links, where when clicked they open as a pdf. I often find there is a time lag while waiting for the pages to open. It might be just me, but as a visitor expecting a just a regular web page, I find these pdf pages quite irritating.

Kind regards

Darren
Thanks Darren,

The 'credit application' needs to remain as a .pdf file as the customers need to print, sign & send or drop, but I will have a look at the others.

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Old 05-14-2008, 09:54 PM
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Hi Andrew,
Great looking site as usual. Nice looking colours. I agree with Chris on the Title headings, etc.

Suppliers page: Any reason why the links are different colours? Some blue and some purple. It give me the impression that I have already visited the purple ones.

In Store Promotions links not all working.

Gas Savers page:
retrofitting" or upgrading the insulation levels for homeowners. "
The inverted commas look out of palce. I think the correct use of the period and inverted comma at the end is like this:
retrofitting "or upgrading the insulation levels for homeowners".
Just the next line: learn more about how Builders can
- Capital L.

LOL, it's always a pleasure and inspiration to look at your sites.
Cheers for "eers".
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Old 05-14-2008, 10:15 PM
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Hi Tommie,

The pages in mention are lacking content as the first store to open is slightly behind schedule and the guy's are chasing to open. If they're close enough, I'm hoping to photograph the shop and collect content tommorrow.

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PlayItByBeer LOL
Good website all round.
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Old 05-15-2008, 08:06 PM
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Website has a clean Joomla look to it???
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Old 05-15-2008, 10:49 PM
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Website has a clean Joomla look to it???
Hi Bevserv,
I'm not sure whether that is a complement, dig or question? But thank you and it's a 100% BlueVoda site...No Joomla at all on this one.

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Old 05-16-2008, 05:19 AM
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How's things, mate?

An other great site! The red with the dark grey/black goes really well!
Congrats!
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How's things, mate?

An other great site! The red with the dark grey/black goes really well!
Congrats!
Hi NZBR,

Long time no hear?
Thanks for the comments.

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Hooray...I'm a 'Lieutenant Colonel' and looking forward to each new website with BlueVoda.

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