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Hi,
Be as harsh as you must, but what do you think of http://www.inhomecasinos.com?
Load speed etc..
Thanks,
dalster44
It did take a long time to load the page. I would suggest minimizing the amount of banners you have listed on your homepage and your internal pages. Carefully placed text links can be a very effective means of driving new customers.
You have some text that is overlapping your header image, at least from my Mozilla browser.
Also, there is a lot of open space to the right of your banners. You may consider reworking the arrangement of the site to fill more space.
Good luck.
Ok. It did take a little while to load up, not that bad though, someone on dial up may leave before it finishes though. First glance. Looks like SO many other casino sites out there. Nothing really makes it stand out. You took a lot of time and effort to load up your site with content and banners, that you skipped some details here and there that someone like me notices. (I am an anal SOB – LOL – so bear with me)
1) Some of the text (links etc..) are SO small that I can barely see them (near the bottom).
2) Once I follow a link from the left, it brings me to a page that looks NOTHING like the original homepage. I wasnt really sure if I had been redirected somewhere, I had to check the URL to be sure I wasn’t. You have so many different “themes” (colors, layouts etc..) its kind of annoying.
3) When I am taken to SOME of the new pages, ALL of the text is centered. Some of the banners are centered, some aren’t. Some banners are aligned inline text some are aligned left, looks like you just forgot to center some of them.
4) The top title image for your pages arent alignened with your content below it. It seems aligned to the left, where the main body of content is aligned in the middle. Just looks odd.
5) Techy thing…alot of your pages dont have a DocType declared. Your index page does, but many of your linked pages do not.
6) I wasnt sure (I’d have to go back and browse some more), but the navigation didn’t seem consistent to me. Instead of the same links being in the same spot on every single page, I found myself really having to figure out where to click. Eventually I just went and started using the back button. Alot of people won’t bother, and just leave if they cant figure out where to go. So you need to be aware of ease of navigation.The short and sweet of it, there is no continuity amongst all of your pages.
Ok. The criticsms being over, some praise. ALOT of content. I like the amount of content you have. Search engines will like that. You obviously have a lot of experience in online casinos and it shows. You have accumulated tons of info. If you can just straighten up the looks of the site and make the navigation smoother between all of the pages, it will be even better.
Hope some of this helps and you have a good start (alot of sites look nice, but have no content, so you’re definitely on the plus side in that respect)
Great Feedback!
JBaldwin, way to go, thats the kind of criticism I’m looking for, good and honest!
My whole site will actually look like the index, I had just re-done the index the other night.
Yes, Maybe I will eliminate the banners (most) maybe go with a 120×60 down the right instead, I was just trying to give it a little flash.
I’ll also take a look at the links text size, maybe 1 size bigger would get the job done!
Thank You for looking,
dalster44
Banners aren’t a bad thing, as long as they arent over done. A few well placed banners are more powerful than loading every empty spot of your page with one. Think of it this way, when YOU browse to a site and see banners, banners banners..what do you generally think to yourself?
Someone else in this forum said in another post..(not verbatim) EVERYONE has seen a banner before, they are nothing new.
Now on my site, I do have a few banners down the left side, but every one of those is just for my forum freerolls and thats it.
