I created a website several months back. Was originally my wife's when she was an interior decorator.

Its a free real estate listing site for realtors and fsbo's.

I have a lot of ideas in the works but often hard to tell if I am going in a direction that helps or confuses visitors. Realtors give me good feedback but I don't get much feedback from Visitors.

I'm thinking things are getting better because page visits are increasing and traffic is growing around 1,000 additional visitors a month but without feedback its not much to go on. Last month the site nearly hit 10,000 visitors which I consider good because its been online for less than 6 months and its looks like I will do at least 12,000 this month.

Here is the site
http://www.InteriorLiving.Com

Thankyou,
Mitchell

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Interior Living - Free Real Estate Listing site.

The domain name is a good name. I think that the design is a little dated. I think that the concept is good.

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Bellingham Real Estate
Bellingham Condos
Bellingham MLS

The click for more info threw me for a loop, I expected that blue text to be a hyperlink, but there was no mouseover action when I moused over (Instead the whole thing is clickable) - confusing.

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ericbadgley
Your right I do feel its a bit dated in appearance myself. Originally it was another program but I have rewritten about 80% of the code now. Was a decent starting foundation but boy did it need work.

My goal is to get functionality, navigation, and seo down then concentrate on recreating the look. Unfortunately I cant draw a stick figure so I will have to either get a modern template or get a graphic designer spruce up the appearance. Maybe I should move the look up sooner than later. Hmmm.

webmaster
Yes I need to work on that. I think I am going to display a grid on the front page soon of recent home listings. On the search pages I have to come up with something a bit better. I agree I need to come up with something better.


Thankyou both for your honesty and insight.

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Interior Living - Free Real Estate Listing site.

what are you using for CMS?

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Fraser Valley real estate
BC blueberry real estate
Fraser Valley acreages and rural real estate

sapanbehar

Its a self created one. Is there one for listings?

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Interior Living - Free Real Estate Listing site.

Nice...do you plan to have videos?

Video is the in thing now

thanks

Wasn't sure if it was put in wrong by the user or if the code is not showing it right since it was reduced but the property with id=33 shows reduced price of $339,000 in the details but the price in blue is showing $339.00.

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Tulsa Real Estate
Tulsa MLS Search
Tulsa Featured Listings

Yes it happens. $339.00 But I wonder if its on purpose or by mistake.

I haven't turned of the sort by price features yet because were still starting out so last listed first shown right now. They may have done the price as a mistake to have top ranking if we sorted by price from lowest to highest. Smart on their part of a mistake? I don't feel I should correct anyones listing even though you kind of want to.

housetubetv
Yes I plan on doing video. Its on the drawing board. Easy to add but I have a few other ideas I need to get out first and a little more cleanup.

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Interior Living - Free Real Estate Listing site.

First, nice looking site. It's not cluttered visually and has no distracting elements in the browser. (The ALLCAP BLUE TEXT has been mentioned already I think.)

Here's where I'd work:

Faulty HTML is the biggest barrier for browsers when people view a web page and search engines choke on bad HTML like hair balls when they try to spider a site properly.

A bad bit of HTML can prevent a page from appearing as you wish it to appear in different browsers and can even prevent a calculator from functioning properly.

Having shared that, here's my review of your home page's source:

At the top of your page source, your "content" attribute has an empty value "".

Alt text is really useful for search engines. Use this to your advantage (but do it appropriately). Also, alt text is critical for accessibility.

In line 303 the "alt" attribute is not valid for the "td" element.

It is usually best not to specify the actual index document name "index.php". Consider using href="./" instead.

The "table" element can directly contain the following elements: "tr", "thead", "tbody", "tfoot", "col", "colgroup", "caption". The "BR" element is out of place on line 344.

On line 346, the color value "#ECECEC" for the "bgcolor" attribute is not enclosed in single or double quotation marks when it must be.

Quotes around attributes are always recommended, even if a particular browser doesn't require them.

At line 380 and following, the "alt" attribute is not valid for the "A" element. You probably want to use the "title" attribute instead

You open a "CENTER" tag in line 436 which must have an end tag (</CENTER>). I don't see it where it should be, before the end tag for "div".

The "td" you opened in line 443 should close before the end tag for "div" on line 461.

On line 468 you're missing the '#' in front of the hexadecimal color code.

You've got some <tr>'s inside of <tr>'s around 468-470.

In a couple of places, you're closing </font> after the </a> when it should be done the other way.

Your table on line 480 doesn't seem to have the same number of cells in each of its 2 rows. You have 2 in the first row and 1 cell in the second.

You may have one too many </div> tags for the page. The one on line 779 may not be necessary.

I don't believe the "alt" attribute is valid for the "td" element.

Have a good one!

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