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Old 04-22-2006, 09:27 AM
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Smile e-cards4u.com is open for business :o)

With special thanks to the usual suspects, you know who you are, for their unfailing help and support, I am pleased to anounce the latest addition to my mini-webpire!

http://www.e-cards4u.com

As always I solicit your views and comments whether good or bad and thank you, in advance, for taking the time to look.

I hope to add an affiliate link to an instant e-card site but am still awaiting approval. So watch this space.

Thanks again :o)
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Old 04-22-2006, 09:54 AM
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As usual, you've done lousy work, Amanda. But, I'm a nice guy so I'll say it looks good. LOL

You know I'm kidding - you've done a great job as you always do.
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Old 04-22-2006, 10:01 AM
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As usual, you've done lousy work, Amanda. But, I'm a nice guy so I'll say it looks good. LOL

You know I'm kidding - you've done a great job as you always do.
LMAO and ROFL. You dog you! Lol. Thanks Race ;o)
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Old 04-22-2006, 10:01 AM
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My best wishes for your -n site! Great job as always!
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Old 04-22-2006, 10:04 AM
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My best wishes for your -n site! Great job as always!
Thanks Naval you are very gracious! Lol.
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Old 04-22-2006, 01:05 PM
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Hi Amanda,

How do you do it? Your keyboard must be glowing white hot! Excellent as always.

Cheers

Nick
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Old 04-22-2006, 02:12 PM
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The site looks great, Amanda. Only problem was no images in the sample segment - just a lovely gold background and the "click on any image..." message.

My problem or yours?

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Old 04-22-2006, 02:30 PM
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Old 04-22-2006, 03:14 PM
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I agree, ND. The site works great on the other - same software-computers here. I did get the images to come up on the home page by getting rid of all the security, but not on the samples page.

At least it's raining here so tracking it down won't be as bothersome.

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Old 04-22-2006, 03:43 PM
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Hi Amanda,

How do you do it? Your keyboard must be glowing white hot! Excellent as always.

Cheers

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Lol. On two hours sleeps a night, coffee, no kids, coffee, coffee and oh and coffee helps a lot! Lol.

Thanks Nick :o)
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Old 04-22-2006, 03:47 PM
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The site looks great, Amanda. Only problem was no images in the sample segment - just a lovely gold background and the "click on any image..." message.

My problem or yours?

DDS
Thanks Dave, sorry you're having problems viewing the images. They are only jpgs in a gallery - nothing fancy. Curiouser and curioser... Lol.
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Old 04-22-2006, 04:11 PM
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Good Afternoon, Amanda. It is curious as none of your other sites ever caused this type of confusion here. No place holders, no indication that an image should exist - zilch. The "backgold" shows as a simple jpeg.

You did a great job and should be an active site. Works with your other sites for people who cannot be around to keep important dates in good order.

(you still look a bit sleepy)

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Old 04-22-2006, 06:52 PM
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Amanda: I really like your new site. I just thought as I was viewing it, in that I really like the idea of the nav bar on the right side. Since most people put it over on the left side (including me), it is much more convienent on the right (at least for those who are right handed). I think I will experiment with my two business sites on this, as I really liked that! Thanks again for sharing so much of yourself with others!
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Old 04-22-2006, 07:06 PM
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Amanda: I really like your new site. I just thought as I was viewing it, in that I really like the idea of the nav bar on the right side. Since most people put it over on the left side (including me), it is much more convienent on the right (at least for those who are right handed). I think I will experiment with my two business sites on this, as I really liked that! Thanks again for sharing so much of yourself with others!
Well spotted! It's a trick I picked up from one of Naval's and Racefan's threads ages ago. I've tried looking and can't find it but basically they were discussing how research had shown that the majority of people favour the RH side and RH side adverts always work better than LH ones. I think Race suggested an experiement of having one on each side with slight differences so the theory could be tested.

I skipped the experiment and went for it. It feels really comfortable for me too. My first sites were all LH but only because that style was the 'norm' and what most people did. I changed the rules, Lol.

Thanks for noticing and for your kind comments.
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Old 04-23-2006, 02:17 AM
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Amanda: I just got on your new site and submitted a card request. It let me submit, but when I went to pay now, I received an error:
ERROR: Userid not found: 64188734

So I selected your contact link to email you and your email bounced back to me saying:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

sales@e-cards4u.com
SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<sales@e-cards4u.com>:
host e-cards4u.com [70.86.138.226]: 550-"The recipient cannot be verified. Please check all recipients of this
550 message to verify they are valid."

Is there something I am doing wrong, or could it be your site? Thanks

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Old 04-23-2006, 02:24 AM
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Thanks Cindy - I'll check it all out now. I'll post back.
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Old 04-23-2006, 02:32 AM
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Amanda, this is absolutely wonderful. I love the color you've chosen. The gold is rich and gives just the right feel.

My only suggestion would be that your first paragraph on the home page will mean nothing to your visitors and customers and you might want to consider moving the 2nd paragraph to the first position, as it tells people what you do. Then you could talk about how this evolved from your other site (and link to them as well - great SEO opportunity - and if you do this is the time to have them open in a new window!).

Just a couple suggestions - I think this site is awesome and can see it doing wonders for you.
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