My first real website in Joomla

Please be very critical. I did this as a favor to a friend so I made nothing but I learned many things about building websites and Joomla.

http://aest.firenewsonline.com/aest

If the link is broken, let me know. I will be moving the site soon.

Thanks!

 

Good desing, joomla rulz.. Seo joomla is very bad

 

it's a good site though very simple... the most important thing is providing the important information visitors need. i think the intention of putting up this sight has been achieved... good work...

 

Good work! use light colors

 

your design is great and attractive

 

I love the site too bad I am not mastering Jumola yet CSS and XHTML myself. I dumped Front Page last year and went to handcoding with notepad. You do use some coding I haven't used like object classid, param & span.

There is a great deal of debate over using the old table tags, although I haven't found a good reason for not using them. I did some research on tables one day, the main reason, being that we should use CSS to create tables and dump the old table tags. I saw some comments that using the old table tags would slow down a page when it loads, but haven't found that to be the case.

 

If that's really your first effort, I have to say it's a great page. Very simple design but has good colour use to catch the eye.

The only thing I don't like is the way the text is inconsistent throughout the site. Be consistent. It looks more professional over the entire theme.

Well done for a terrific first try though!

 

Looks good to me.

 

Hi there,

Technically, header, footer, navigation, this site is reasonably sound.

From a design perspective a lot more could be done here to make the site attractive & draw the user's eye to the key content or actions you want them to complete. I'm not sure what you main goals are but if it is to sell services & products the site does not communicate the safety & security of an ecommerce portal like Amazon.com for example. Ways to achieve this include 'Secured by VeriSign' badges, testimonials from happy customers, a more professional main header image.

 

Looks very nice to me.

 

The text was the first thing I noticed after the header, which I liked.

Your sentences are way too long.

Try making your paragraphs smaller.

 

site looks very user friendly

 

Thanks. I really dislike the editor in joomla. There are not enough options in my opinion. I don't know html well enough to do it that way.

I will take your advice and get a new header, badges and testimonials. Thank you!

The sentances were written by the owner, but I will talk to him and see if we can consolidate some.


Thanks all! I appreciate the honest reviews with details.

 

Logo bad but the website so-so.

in my opinion: try another theme. (There are many more beautiful joomla themes)

 

IMHO, Logo is not at all good

 

I agree. It was sent via acrobat and it's a copy and paste job. It's just there until I can get a designer to create one.

 

Hey There,

when i want to view you site i receive this message:

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

Same as the guy above me. Error when I went to the site.

 

looks like a sub domain?

 

It's back up now as

aestfire.com

Code (markup):

I had stated that I was moving it to its final domain. I was working on it with a subdomain on my host.