Input On New Deal Site

Discussion in 'Websites' started by technolochic, Mar 20, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi everyone! :)

    I've been working hard on a new site. Basically, it is a site that scours out the best deals for everyone to take advantage of on the web.

    It's not finished yet and it's still in the works before I fully launch it out.
    All opinions and comments are appreciated. I would also love some SEO tips as well.

    Thank you DP! You're great!

    http://www.dealcanine.com
     
    technolochic, Mar 20, 2010 IP
  2. mark_w

    mark_w Peon

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    Looks nice. The banner took about 1 minute to load on my connection. Consider the loading time of your homepage.

    Also, it's not so obvious what your site does straight away. I'd be very weary of entering my number in there straight away.
     
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  3. Jordan260

    Jordan260 Active Member

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    #3
    Nice Design choice. I have to agree with Mark that the homepage lacks information so if you could populate it with a little text explaining the site idea a little more im sure that'll turn out great.

    My connection is fairly fast and your banner loaded after about 10 seconds for me. I guess it depends on everyones connection but also what format the file is etc.

    I dont know much of SEO coding myself however as I can see your using wordpress I'd recommened the SEO Plugins from wordpress, I use them on my own site and they work a charm :)

    Keep the site going id love to see it progress till the finishing point and ill be sure to use it when I can also.

    Jordan

    P.S - Nice display pic ;) x
     
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  4. igotthenews123

    igotthenews123 Active Member

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    Love the graphics and the site seems like it has potential. Very nice. Now you can review mine HERE
     
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  5. technolochic

    technolochic Peon

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    @ mark_w
    The banner seems to sometimes load a little fast and a little slow at times. I think I need to configure the times a little bit.
    And the SMS feature I put on the footer so it is not too overbearing. Where it used to be, I'll use those placeholders to describe the point of my site.

    @ Jordan260

    Thank you!

    I will definitely continue to do more things to the website. It's not even finished yet! So there is plenty more to come.
    I will look into some SEO plug ins so hopefully that will help out a bit... keyword is hopefully!

    @ amigotthenews123

    Thank you very much. :)
    I will be reviewing your site now.
     
    technolochic, Mar 20, 2010 IP
  6. technolochic

    technolochic Peon

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    Anymore reviews and advice would be much appreciated, thank you! :)
     
    technolochic, Mar 21, 2010 IP
  7. technolochic

    technolochic Peon

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    Still looking for reviews please. Thanks! :)
     
    technolochic, Mar 22, 2010 IP
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    #8
    it's great!! what could we say??
     
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    #9
    i like it. took a while to load though, but cool site
     
    wbnetwork99, Mar 23, 2010 IP
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    matessim Active Member

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    Phew, glad its not a site about dog trading, anyway, how did you do the floating box with shadow? its A-MAZING!
     
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    Looks good. I'm confused by your decision to use photobucket to host your hero images. It's not like hosting is expensive these days!
     
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    #12
    looks cool but the design seems common
     
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    It looks like an opensource template? it looks nice, but its quite plain, but the top bit I like/
     
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    #14
    banner is little bigger. try to make it small. it look like takes all space of site.
     
    kinsac_2000, Mar 25, 2010 IP
  15. technolochic

    technolochic Peon

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    Hi guys!

    Thank you for all of your input. The site is still under construction, but I am working towards it to get ready for press releases.

    If you could, could you make a bulleted list on what else you recommend for the site to be fixed? Thank you! :D
     
    technolochic, Mar 25, 2010 IP
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    That's really different for a wordpress site - well done! Only criticisms are the long download time for the banner image and also the second banner stage (spring for the deal of the day) I think another font would be beneficial - something less, erm, squiggly is the word.
     
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    #17
    Nice site, really clean and easy on the eyes... just get up some content and you'll be on your way :)
     
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    Hi,

    it has error code:

    Webpage error details

    User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
    Timestamp: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:57:45 UTC


    Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
    Line: 110
    Char: 1
    Code: 0
    URI: http://dealcanine.com/wp-content/themes/display/js/custom.js?ver=2.9.2
     
    tomlarson007, Mar 26, 2010 IP
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    #19
    The first thing I said when I saw your page (which btw took a while to load) was '..aww, cute'. I think that's a good thing coming from someone who loves dogs. Design is clean and looks put together. It needs a lot of content, but it's definitely a very nice design and I also like how the main tabs have a small description underneath them. Good job.
     
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  20. technolochic

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    Hi guys!

    Thanks a bunch for more of your reviews. :)
    I will definitely take all of your advice to help my site prosper!
     
    technolochic, Mar 27, 2010 IP