Website Review and Suggestions

**goheadtry** · 12-17-2012, 04:27 PM

I redid a site for my friend.
It's a site for
Los Angeles Swimming pool Builder
I decided to go at it with the wordpress approach...
Please let me know what you guys think.

**vultren** · 12-20-2012, 07:17 PM

Reduce width of text container to at least a 10px padding so we can have space between the box and words!

**goheadtry** · 12-21-2012, 01:15 PM

I totally agree with you?
I redid the site on
calpoolandspa.com California pool builder
it's the same site, different branding colors I have that css fix there I'm setting up a couple hundred of them to build leads, but I noticed that when I did this one was this more what your talking about?

**ODT** · 06:25 PM

goheadtry: vultren talks about the text on http://universalpoolandspa.com/. It looks bad because there's no blank space on the left (and on the right) of the text (no margin or padding).

The responsible CSS style is (file style.css):

Code:

.singular.page .hentry {
	padding: 3.5em 0 0;
}

You can change it to something like:

Code:

.singular.page .hentry {
    padding: 3.5em 20px; /* just an example! */
}

Hope that helps!

**goheadtry** · 01-10-2013, 06:00 PM

Thanks guys could you take another look made some more changes, added a few goodies, just trying to rank well now.

**ODT** · 01-15-2013, 01:03 PM

And in the footer, you've got link Webdesign by Shark Tank Agency to http://sharktankagency.com/, which does not exist.

**goheadtry** · 01-15-2013, 04:22 PM

It does, I'm trying to establish about 12 backlinks, before I get launch the site,

**ODT** · 01:44 AM

That http://sharktankagency.com/ gives me error when I try to load it in the browser. The problem is that the domain does not resolve to IP. I've tried that with Google DNS 8.8.8.8 and with Level3 DNS 209.244.0.3 and both say similar:

google-public-dns-a.google.com can't find sharktankagency.com: Server failed

resolver1.level3.net can't find sharktankagency.com: Server failed

which is quite unusual, but the result is that it does not work for me and it probably does not work for many other people. It is not that there is no website associated with the address at the moment, the problem is in DNS. The failures are given even for name server queries.

**chrishirst** · 01-22-2013, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by goheadtry

It does, I'm trying to establish about 12 backlinks, before I get launch the site,

Why?????

Search engines will not add URIs to their index that don't actually reslve.

**vectorialpx** · 01-25-2013, 02:22 AM

So, is this about http://universalpoolandspa.com/ OR http://calpoolandspa.com/ ?
The last looks better.

1. First, it's a bit rusty. The design should get some improvements, like that menu with top-bottom white border. You may take it out and make the menu be white or #0cf.

2. On http://universalpoolandspa.com/swimm...ns-blueprints/ you have 2 images and a lot of space in the right side. I get the idea of having different image sizes but, you should have one size, on the entire website width. Same at "safety".

3. in the http://universalpoolandspa.com/free-...rnando-valley/ you should make that submit be visible and also your error messages. You have #ccc on white.

4. Your images are not optimized. You have some 70KB photos at 300x300. On my photo website, at 300x200 an image has 5KB.

5. your social icons should open a new window. None of them have _blank window.

And, may be others.
Good luck with the project!

**chrishirst** · 01-27-2013, 10:45 AM

Quote:

First, it's a bit rusty.

That will be due to all the water sloshing about.

**cantletugo** · 01-27-2013, 11:24 PM

I think you also need to consider optimizing the loading time. It took forever on my fast broadband connection to load up the entire site!