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Old 04-30-2009, 05:25 PM First Website I ever designed!
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I have a small Fireplace Repair and Chimney Company In Houston. I am not a profesional web designer so keep that in mind. Don't have the budget to hire someone so I designed my own website. Please take a look and give me any advice you may have. thanks

http://www.texaschimneypro.com
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Old 04-30-2009, 10:15 PM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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I think it looks nice... Nice colors and pretty straight forward.

You do have a couple typo's which always turns me off to any company, and unless your logo is something you have previously established I would make it look like a chimney sweep company not just generic company A logo.

Also your content is very wordy, its good info and looks like you have a good company but there is a lot of reading and nothing that attracts me to any particular service. Maybe some bullet points or something I don't know.

Great first attempt, I like it a lot.
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Old 05-01-2009, 09:48 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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To be honest, this is alot better than some first web designs we have seen.

Now, please hope that you can take criticism, specially since we are a web design/development company so we can be harsh at time.

As we said it is very nice for a first time layout, but we would like to offer some suggestions. You have your services at the top and they are all in image based formats and these are very important you should put them in text format so the search engines can pick them up, they will help you rank alot better.

On your contact page I would put a form to contact you, because with putting your email there you will end up getting alot of spam email from bots.

I hope this can help, if you need any other help please let us know.
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Old 05-01-2009, 11:55 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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Hello Texaschimneypro,

Well done! In the header, the lettering is not crisp and clean. I agree with BDevil15 with the logo being generic, a chimney sweep graphic of some sort behind the company name would follow the theme of the website. The Texas graphic on the right side of the page is beautiful, the drop shadow needs a little improving.

Outstanding for the first web design!
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Old 05-02-2009, 04:34 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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ok - pretty good attempt for a beginner - in fact surprisingly well done, but there a few ways you can improve your site:

your logo looks a bit dated and as mentioned above not crisp and clean. you could use that text but with maybe a circle/chimney behind it - what font is it done in?

the site is too cold and grey: use some fiery colours to add contrast (yellows, oranges, reds) for links and other parts

your phone number is too stretched . just increase the font size a little - and the smaller text isn't antialiased properly (i.e. it's jaggy and not blended into the white background)

it's better for SEO and accessibility if you use proper headings i.e H1,H2 etc.

use bold only to highlight things - not for your main body text

write in paragraphs! text is easier to read and digest when it is in shorter chunks of information - expecially on the web

the pic on http://www.texaschimneypro.com/chase_tops.html with the 6 chimneys looks poor and relflects badly on your products! go back to the original and save it as a better quality jpeg (don't use gifs for photos) the silver chase cover above that grouped picture looks a lot more professional!

check your copy for typos/grammar - e.g. on this page http://www.texaschimneypro.com/faq.html
"It is much better to find out if it needs replaced " should be
"if it needs to be replaced" or "if it needs replacing"

the gas logs pictures are poor quality - and if you have better quality ones you could use one in the header along with that silver chase top

i would include the squirrel story from your blog into your site

is your logo fixed now or is it open to sugegstions/modifications?

all in a pretty ok job -especially for someone who's obviously busy working rather than designing web sites (well ok that's work too
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Old 05-02-2009, 06:58 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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in fact i would do it something like this
http://pp.kpnet.fi/prescott/stuff/ch...screenshot.png
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Old 05-02-2009, 10:30 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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This is pretty good for a first time web design "better than mine was", back in 2003 I designed my first website which was nothing more than frames and solid colors and an image with frontpage.
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Old 05-03-2009, 11:35 PM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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Nice job! Not bad for a beginner. I like that you put your phone number in the header, that's a good strategy. The font selection is kinda old-school. It's also pixelated.
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Old 05-04-2009, 08:32 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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Nice work. To be honest you have done an excellent work but still it can be made much better. For further help you must visit the links below as reference, so that you could could get some better idea for your website design
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Old 05-04-2009, 10:23 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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Pretty nice work man! I was surprised. A very job well done for a newbie like you!

Site looks very simple and easy to understand.
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Old 05-05-2009, 10:33 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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Great job for the first timer. I am a newbie too. To be honest, your web design is much much better than mine. Good luck to your business with your new website.
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Old 05-05-2009, 11:05 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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is the OP (original poster) still around ?
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Old 05-05-2009, 11:39 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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is the OP (original poster) still around ?
Good question, Come out, Come out where ever you are.

Don't be scared. I know it sucks being new. But all in all your start is great. I am no web designer. I outsourse that. But at least you gave it a try and as stated above, not bad for your first site.

Good Luck Man, Kane
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Old 05-07-2009, 04:26 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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Nice work, I liked it
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:06 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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its nice because you already told its first design and you are not profesnal designer and i also design my web site it was not like this. it was very bad but now i m improving so if possible add some picture other wise its fine

best of luck
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Old 05-11-2009, 11:00 PM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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wow, thanks guys a lot of excellent advice and I will certainly try to implement it. Bummed out no one likes my logo.. It must of taken me 2 days to make that I know it's not great but if you would have seen what I had before you would think it was a miracle. Couple of questions:

Shawn you said to put my text at top into text format not sure how to do that?

Font is outdated any suggestions for a good font to use?



Davemies that looks really good for something you probably threw together in a couple minutes would have taken me a week! I will take your advice on the colors and everything sounds like very good advice.

Gonna work on the grammar as well.

Thanks once again everyone for all your advice I will take all of it and try to work on it a little at a time. Trying to work on Seo as well and run a business here. I now understand why it costs as much as it does for someone to do all this for you. I work just as hard at this as I do with my business itself. But all in all well worth it as the website is my business and has been bringing in some good jobs. So far I have gotten my ranking up to the top ten for several of my keywords and is getting better and better.
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Old 05-12-2009, 12:24 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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if you want to use the header and logo let me know - i've made it now, so if you can use it, feel free
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Old 05-12-2009, 04:27 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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Hey you really are a good designer. But are you just here for showing your website and get disappear or wanna talk about business?
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Old 05-12-2009, 05:57 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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Very good for a first attempt, the only thing I dont like is the grey gradient. Would have a look at a template site like template monster for a few colours that work together then install the colorzilla firefox plugin to find out what the colour values are and change the grey over, to make the site a little warmer and more inviting.
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Old 05-12-2009, 07:22 AM Re: First Website I ever designed!
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Very nice and simple design, color combination is really good and i like design very much.
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