Please Review Realtor Website

Discussion in 'Websites' started by rbucich, Mar 15, 2005.

  1. #1
    I'd like some feedback on my website www.bucich.net
    I'm self taught in HTML so I don't have the fundamental programming background most of you have. I'm sure it's a bit clumsy.

    What I would like to accomplish is to make it load faster if necessary and have a cleaner look. Keep in mind I don't want to make dramatic changes since I am at the top of Google right now for just about every relevant keyword :D. But that's the point really, since I am at the top and receiving a fair amount of traffic, I feel more compelled to make it look sharp.

    I think the navigation could be spiffed up some but all I know is graphics.
    I'm relatively clueless on javascript although I have some, and I'm a newbie with CSS.

    Thanks for your thoughts!
     
    rbucich, Mar 15, 2005 IP
  2. jared

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    #2
    Overall I would say the website looks pretty good. I didn't have any problems with load times etc.

    For someone with self taught HTML thats is excellent. Many business websites don't even look half as good.

    The one think I would suggest is try darking up the link text color. That light olive green tends to get lost against the white background.

    Cheers
     
    jared, Mar 15, 2005 IP
  3. J.D.

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    It's better not to use images in simple menus - it takes some time to download them, requires JS for highlighting and requires more maintenance to produce regular, highlighted and, sometimes, clicked on images.

    The layout looks a bit busy to me - too much text, too little structure. First few seconds I wasn't sure where to look first.

    J.D.
     
    J.D., Mar 15, 2005 IP
  4. rbucich

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    Thanks for the feedback. I agree on the busy part. I intentionally tried to load it up with keywords for SEO...and it worked. Still a work in progress however.

    I use Dreamweaver for editing. But I have found that if I adjust the fonts too much on a single page while trying to play with the look and feel, that contradicting/overlapping code gets left behind. So I have had to get pretty good at editing my code by hand to clean it up.

    Thanks again!
     
    rbucich, Mar 16, 2005 IP
  5. fbernard

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    I agree it does look good for a newbie. However, for a realtor site, it's very busy, too much text.

    As for being a newb, so am I, and my site is living proof.
     
    fbernard, Mar 16, 2005 IP
  6. MELLA

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    Nice website, good job. But yes it has abit Too much text. Maybe you could add some pictures for those :eek: who have short attention span.

    other than that - great.
     
    MELLA, Mar 17, 2005 IP
  7. rbucich

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    See there's the catch...it's all that text which is placing me at the top of the search engines. I am making changes to make it more organized and neat however.

    And a little plug for my alma matre...beat Texas Tech!
     
    rbucich, Mar 17, 2005 IP
  8. hearme

    hearme Active Member

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    i have tried like 3 - 4 times but its not loading.
     
    hearme, Oct 7, 2010 IP
  9. rbmclnt

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    nice jobs. it's refresh me
     
    rbmclnt, Oct 9, 2010 IP
  10. Taufan Adityarahman J.U

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    unique site,
    may simply be just placing the pictures and minus any part that is not too important for better
     
    Taufan Adityarahman J.U, Oct 10, 2010 IP
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    The photos are too big. The bottom two are bigger then my pc 17' screen. Having to scrol up and down to see parts of a picture can get annoying.
     
    enotgat, Oct 10, 2010 IP
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    #12
    you are not look like newbie in web :)
     
    ashfaq, Oct 10, 2010 IP
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    nice job. it's refreshing me
     
    hu5nain, Mar 14, 2012 IP