Thread: [CLASSIPRESS] Nottingham Website

[CLASSIPRESS] Nottingham Website

After a lot of messing about in scrapping a Vantage4 project and converting it to Classipress, we've now been online for around one day -

https://www.thisisnottingham.org

Feedback and criticisms most welcome!

Gosh you're up early!

None of the links in the Categories section on the photo are working.
Very slow to respond to a "click" and go to the page...having said that, it could be my internet speed so it'd be interesting to see how others find it. I really like it, but it's those milliseconds too slow. I think this is a really important factor because it can make or break the success of a website. I did a test using some other sites to see the speed on them, and they are fine. I think something here needs refining, just to keep your customers.

Please accept this as constructive criticism because this will in turn help all of us if it can be rectified.

Kindest Regards,

June.

Hi, me again,

I love that you can pay $2 for 30 days. But its unclear as the bill comes to $30. Also there is no payment gateway or account listed to pay into.

How else are you monetising the site? Adwords?

I think About Us should be on the Bottom Footer or Top Footer . Contact Us on bottom footer - the form sticks out at you too much.

I love your "Latest News" Section where you tell your customers what's going on - that's brilliant!

I'm not one for Tags in different fonts - I prefere to read font all in the same size. Just me though!

The google map should be in a link under a tab saying "find us her" or simply "location".

I can see why you moved the follow us on symbols in the bottom footer section to the middle; because of the up arrow on the right - but it doesn't really work. Relocate these to the top left corner in the header.

I find the blue writing on black background hard to read and harsh.

I am no website designer or have any background in making websites, but as a user - those are the things I would tend to in order to make it more free flowing.

I hope you have found this helpful.

You might totally disagree with all of this, but that's just the way I see it.

Kind Regards,

Jun.

Hi June,

We have free listings - I'm not quite sure where you get the $2 from? - all the rest of the ad-packs are priced accordingly at £10, £20, £50 and £200.

Good point about the payment gateway - an oversight on my part and it should now be working. Please deposit £200 so that I can confirm its all good

'About Us' is there due to Ovidiubica mentioning that its an SEO design for the website.

'Location' for individual listings is already there under the listing. The Google Map at the bottom is intentional - a map and relevent contact info.

I've been messing around with colours and 'Follow Me' buttons and they should all be sorted later on today.

Thanks for the feedback!

Hi Raven,

You're most welcome. I could also do with feedback on my site, but I don't want to make it live yet. If you wanted, I could message you the link and you could login as a subscriber - then you can give me feedback - I'm all for what works, what doesn't and how to fix it. I find the only way to achieve good results is to talk to people and get ideas on how it looks, feels, navigates; something I haven't done enough of, if at all.

Let me know if you'd like to have a gander and a play around with it, list some ads - (no secret ones please!) Won't be going live til I'm really ready.

Thank you,

June.

Hi RayRaven,

Are you using Talent's Simply Responsive Child Theme?

If so,
1.How did you make the slider go all the way across the screen?
2.How did you put that big pic of Nottingham right across the screen? And, then make it still while the rest of the page slides over it?
3.Very neat feature. I like it alot.
4.I also wondered how you got those neat little icons next to the tab names - Is that a Plugin?

Thank you,
June.

$2 not 2GBP

Hi Ray,

I had another look at this and it definitely shows $2 and not 2GBP (how do you type that symbol?)


Name Membership Benefit Subscription
30 days publishing for only $2 £2.00 per ad (required to post) £15.00 / 30 days

I tried to register to your site and it kept telling me to enter password twice. So I'd enter it once, then it'd refresh, then I'd enter again, same thing. So I couldn't get past this and logged in via facebook.

You've got some nice features in there.

June

Right, this needs sorting -

You were already a member in there, so I just deleted a load of email addresses and users, one of which was yours, so now you should be able to register by email.

Try registering by email.

But first - I've got a very aggressive caching system in place at the moment, so before registering, do a hard refresh on your pc (press the F5 key), which SHOULD get rid of the $2 symbol. I havent got a clue what you're on about regarding this, as I've been caching and re-caching all week.

Cache now re-set so we'll see what happens.

Yes I've got Simply Responsive on one of my websites, but this one is Classipost - the icons come as standard, as does the full width slider, and I set it so that the hero image stays fixed on scrolling.

Can you send me a new login please, just tried to login and it thinks I attacked it! Bit scary!

June

Yep, thats the whole point.

You need to re-register as a new user with your email as usual.

- - - Updated - - -

Also - Membership Packs trashed, so you won't see the $2 thing now I hope.

And aggressive cache re-set.