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Old 02-26-2008, 04:23 PM
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Hi Everyone,
I have a new custom site in development and just took the password protection off. Hopefully you can get by and give a lttle feedback to me and my REW devlopment team. We worked really hard on the advanced search options, so give them a try. Thanks in advance for any feedback!

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Old 02-26-2008, 05:08 PM
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Ok, I'm jealous

Very nice. IMO, much better then the other site you had.

I like the colors, and I really like your choice of photos. The large crab cracked me up

The placement of the quick search is well done.

Congrats on a great looking site!
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Great site! I love the sandy colors and all the rotating pics are really nice. The "map this property" feature is awesome. Nice work.
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Old 02-26-2008, 05:58 PM
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Incidentally, if every customer was like Cal I would almost work for free - He said "You guys do your thing, I trust you" as well as "As for area, well I live in a drinking village with a fishing problem" the rest is history.

Thanks Cal - I am really proud of what we have so far.
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Congrats, Cal. Looks nice and raises the bar. More REW magical work!
The only initial thing I see is that using "My Areas" is really more than what it indicates. At first I though it was areas that you covered, but it is actually more than that. Maybe something like "Search Areas" or ?
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Great feedback Drew - the issue there is that he only has the one content area in the side nav as opposed to the tradition 2 (Main navigation and My Areas) the simple solution and the one I suggest is just creating a second navigation graphic for the non area specific links. Would help break up the longer navigation as well
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It's beautiful. I really like the quick search & the track a listing feature. It looks like you've given the user a lot of choices to search what they are looking for. Your home prices are quite impressive compared to California.
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The only initial thing I see is that using "My Areas" is really more than what it indicates. At first I though it was areas that you covered, but it is actually more than that. Maybe something like "Search Areas" or ?
Cal - awesome .... can't wait to see you go live.

Further to what Drew mentioned, perhaps something like "Gulf Shore Real Estate" or xx xx Area's?

Also .... and this is after I looked at your site on my hi-res monitor (1920 x 1700) *it may be better on a lower resolution*, is there any way to scale up size/appearance (increase the font / text colour contrast) for your Names & Phone numbers.

Morgan & team .... another awesome job ..... *I'm making notes*

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Sweet looking site - one thing though, I would move up the "track listings" graphic on the bottom right so visitors see it without having to scroll and maybe a increased likelihood of them filling out the form. Ask Morgan - he knows I love pushing stuff UP to the top of the page.

Pretty cool colors too.

Something I noticed your pages are named in capitals for instance - Orange-Beach-Real-Estate.php I thought that was not a good thing? I will let Morgan or others give their opinion as maybe I am wrong? I prefer the capitals but told it was better to use lower case.
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Technically there is no problem from a browser or SEO perspective in using capitols, however I advocate all lower case as a best practice as users typically do not want to have to remember (And rarely do) what URL's require caps and which don't - all lower case makes it better for type in IMHO
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