opinions on my newly updated website, please :)

[Funky Feathers]

What is a barrative? I don't know what you mean. What is too short? PM'ing you.

 

[Funky Feathers]

Hey Debi, I figured it out! On my own no less. Now that is fixed too.

Anybody else see anything that needs improvement?

 

[sandspoultry]

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I think the one picture of cookie monster that has mild cussing is not too family friendly. At the bottom you say that you will never show again but at the top you say you will be showing atleast 3 times in 2010....confusing. You might not want to put your home address out there for everyone in the world to see...security issues and/or unexpected vistors showing up. Love the fact that your pictures are small and even on my slow dailup they come up fast. Overall it is a nice looking site.
Sharon

 

[rainplace]

I agree about the cookie monster. Once I saw it, my perception changed and I didn't look through the rest of the site.

 

[Funky Feathers]

OK, I removed the Cookie Monster. It's family friendly now, Rainplace, please take a look.

 

[rainplace]

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Alrighty... here's the critique... note that I am OCD.

Home page:
If you insist on having the "About Our Farm" on your home page, I would center those words instead of aligning them left. However I agree with others that you should have that bit on an "About Page," and instead start your home page with what you offer. You offer ducks, chickens and merchandise. You could make each breed name a link to it's corresponding page. Love the pictures at the bottom, but I would rearrange them so they stay centered inside the gray.

The paragraph about how you sell your birds, should be moved to maybe the services page. And I would break that paragraph up into more readable segments. Large blocks of text are harder to get through for a lot of people. More like this:

"We sell most of our birds & all of our eggs online at online poultry auctions, one called Eggbid.com and the other is ovabid.com. Our Eggbid username is "Birdy42". Our ovabid username is "rusty57".

Look for our auctions, we ship eggs & birds anywhere in the US. We ship our birds USPS Express Mail, and our eggs USPS Priority Mail. Eggs usually arrive in 2 days.

I pack the eggs very carefully, each egg wrapped individually in bubble wrap, and floated in shredded newspaper which I cut & shred myself. I have been told by fellow eggbidders that I am the best egg packer on eggbid. Although the post offices can be very rough on the eggs, tossing and kicking the boxes around. I have complained about this to no avail. Therefore, once the eggs leave my hands your hatch rate is out of my control. I do guarantee fresh, safely packed eggs. I always send extras if available for fast payment (Instant PayPal), sometimes LOTS of extras!

We also sell locally, and welcome you to our farm. Just email or call and let us know when you can come. We do not sell eggs outside the auction, period.

Most of our breeders are show quality, some are not. Just ask. Every bird we have is pictured here on the website.
Thanks for your interest in our birds."

Something more like that. I hadn't actually read the full paragraph until I was previewing how I broke it up.

Moving on to the pages. I love your pictures! You've done a great job getting all your birds up. I'm an alignment maniac, so if it were me, I wouldn't have my pictures at the bottom outside of the upper gray frame... but that's just a personal preference.

I'm wondering why you took your beautiful banner and stuffed it in the middle of "More Poultry Pics" I would give it a more prominent space.

Please get rid of your experiment page. It looks like you have a dead duckling and nearly dead duckling. It was the last page I looked at and it made me cry.

So this has taken me about an hour to write... lol

You're doing a great job, and overall it's a nice looking site. I nitpicked because you were looking for critique, so please take it that way. It's a lot of work getting a website together, I'll be doing the same this coming summer. I don't look forward to it, that's for sure.

Donna

 

[Funky Feathers]

Quote:
Alrighty... here's the critique... note that I am OCD.

Home page:
If you insist on having the "About Our Farm" on your home page, I would center those words instead of aligning them left. However I agree with others that you should have that bit on an "About Page," and instead start your home page with what you offer. You offer ducks, chickens and merchandise. You could make each breed name a link to it's corresponding page. Love the pictures at the bottom, but I would rearrange them so they stay centered inside the gray.

The paragraph about how you sell your birds, should be moved to maybe the services page. And I would break that paragraph up into more readable segments. Large blocks of text are harder to get through for a lot of people. More like this:

"We sell most of our birds & all of our eggs online at online poultry auctions, one called Eggbid.com and the other is ovabid.com. Our Eggbid username is "Birdy42". Our ovabid username is "rusty57".

Look for our auctions, we ship eggs & birds anywhere in the US. We ship our birds USPS Express Mail, and our eggs USPS Priority Mail. Eggs usually arrive in 2 days.

I pack the eggs very carefully, each egg wrapped individually in bubble wrap, and floated in shredded newspaper which I cut & shred myself. I have been told by fellow eggbidders that I am the best egg packer on eggbid. Although the post offices can be very rough on the eggs, tossing and kicking the boxes around. I have complained about this to no avail. Therefore, once the eggs leave my hands your hatch rate is out of my control. I do guarantee fresh, safely packed eggs. I always send extras if available for fast payment (Instant PayPal), sometimes LOTS of extras!

We also sell locally, and welcome you to our farm. Just email or call and let us know when you can come. We do not sell eggs outside the auction, period.

Most of our breeders are show quality, some are not. Just ask. Every bird we have is pictured here on the website.
Thanks for your interest in our birds."

Something more like that. I hadn't actually read the full paragraph until I was previewing how I broke it up.

Moving on to the pages. I love your pictures! You've done a great job getting all your birds up. I'm an alignment maniac, so if it were me, I wouldn't have my pictures at the bottom outside of the upper gray frame... but that's just a personal preference.

I'm wondering why you took your beautiful banner and stuffed it in the middle of "More Poultry Pics" I would give it a more prominent space.

Please get rid of your experiment page. It looks like you have a dead duckling and nearly dead duckling. It was the last page I looked at and it made me cry.

So this has taken me about an hour to write... lol

You're doing a great job, and overall it's a nice looking site. I nitpicked because you were looking for critique, so please take it that way. It's a lot of work getting a website together, I'll be doing the same this coming summer. I don't look forward to it, that's for sure.

Donna

Hi, I did link each breed name to the corresponding page. Look at the navigation bar and you'll see. I just don't have a page for my call ducks yet. I will move the banner. On the experiment page- one pic is of a dead duckling, but I wanted to show that it is possible to get a crest like that. The other duckling was fine at the time I took the pic, it's just the way I was holding him. That is going to have to stay, as without it I have no experiment. Sorry it made you cry. Thanks for the critique.

 

[rainplace]

Yes, you have the links at the navigation frame, but I was thinking like here where you're written:

Here is our list of the breeds we offer:
Ducks- Crested White Pekins and Butterscotch Calls. Also see our "experiment" page.
Chickens- Excellent quality bearded Splash Silkies from some of the best breeders in the country; Bantam Mille Fleur Cochins and Bantam Splash Cochins. If it is not listed here we do not have it.

It could be written like this instead:

Here is our list of the breeds we offer:
Ducks- Crested White Pekins and Butterscotch Calls. Also see our "experiement" page
Chickens- Excellent quality bearded Splash Silkies from some of the best breeders in the country; Bantam Mille Fleur Cochins and Bantam Splash Cochins. If it is not listed here we do not have it.

I didn't do the chickens... but you see what I mean?

 

[Funky Feathers]

Oh, I don't know...I don't think that's necessary with the navigation links. I think it would be redundant. JMO.