Hello Everyone,
I finally began building my website, and was wondering if anyone can spare some time to critique my work thus far.

I am still testing out softwares, and going over grammar and spelling on some parts, as well as testing other applications for the website, so I wanted to get all the improvements in while I'm in the developmental stage.


Thanks You Soooo Much

The website is
http://www.integrilegal.com

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Mind is the Master

Hi Anise,

I love the color scheme you have going on. Very nice. I did have to scroll horizontally to see all info, which is a turn off for many visitors.

One thing, and this is my personal opinion only, I am not a fan of site builders (Plesk) that use tables for layout/presentation.

One of the things you can run into when using a site builder is invalid code. Run your site pages through the W3C Markup Validation Service and you'll see what I mean. A few errors and/or warnings can be understandable (warnings especially should be fixed) and not hurt your site too much, but a lot of them means your site will most likely not render properly for your visitors, not to mention the effect on SEO. Firefox is more forgiving, whereas IE not so much.

First I would go through all the errors and find any unclosed tags, read the descriptions of what might be causing the errors, try switching out the instances of & and use & instead, look for spacing issues in the code as an extra space can invalidate code, such as a " space then the code - should be no space before or after tags/code enclosed in quotations. Some of the errors relate to your document type (doctype) - more on doctypes here.

Okay, enough rambling out of me. I really do love the colors of this template, just a "few" issues need to be addressed.

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Jules, SunRise Virtual Solutions - WordPress Customization & XHTML/CSS Web Sites

Thank you very much for your critique and the very useful links!!!

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Mind is the Master

Hi there Anise,

If you are using a website hosting company, then you might be able to install Wordpress (wordpress.org not wordpress.com) using Fantastico or Quickinstall from your cPanel. I am in total agreement with what Jules said. I was very frustrated with Plesk Sitebuilder (I even tried the exact template you are using ). In fact, I tried just about all the Plesk Site Builder templates, but that site builder is just very very limited. I finally gave up on Plesk Site Builder and put all that energy into learning how to use Wordpress.org. So far, although my site is under construction, I am happy with what I will soon be able to present to the world wide web.

I hope this is helpful to you. Send me a PM if you need any help with WP .

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Angela D. Jordan
Your Humble Assistant, LLC

Hi Anise - the scrolling left to right is a no no really - people should be able to read full screen. The font size is quite small except on the services page so possibly a little inconsistent? Would it be possible to have a different photo at the top of each page but in the same theme?

Love the colour scheme and layout!

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Cath Walter
http://www.diamondva.co.uk

Love the color scheme! I don't mind scrolling either, but some folks do, so is possible to make the blank section on the left smaller? When viewing the screen at larger resolutions, that blank section takes up a lot of screen space. If that blank area were smaller, more of your text could fit on the screen without having to scroll, or scroll as much.

I didn't look at your company name (or pay attention to what is was on your link) before going to your website, so I had no idea what it was. When I got to the site, where you have your company name in all caps I had a difficult time trying to figure out what it said, how to pronounce it. Down in the text where it's like this...IntegriLegal...it was easier. Now that I know what is, the all caps isn't hard to figure out, but since that was an issue for me when I didn't know the name, I thought I'd mention it.

Also, I know we're all virtual here, but you might want to mention somewhere the city/state where you're physically located, mentioning, of course, that you can virtually work for anyone anywhere! Some clients may be looking for someone local to work virtually for them. Some might argue that doing that may turn away potential clients and I guess that could be possible. On my website, I make it clear where I'm physically located, but that I can also work virtually for anyone in the United States. My latest client was using someone in another state, but then decided they would rather work with someone locally, so now they're my client! And they're a big client!

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Pam Deyerle - Transcriptionist in the Richmond, Virginia area
The Perfect Word Transcription Services

Thank you everyone for your comments, I'm working on fixing some of the issues. I've used Word Press before in the past for building a website, and was very successful with that as well, I thought I would try out a site builder, to get a feel for it. Thanks for the advice!

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Mind is the Master

I really like your website. The colors are pleasant, along with your format and content.
One thing I would mention is that some of your pages have very small print ( not talking about the disclaimer portion) and I had to grab my reading glasses so as not to struggle. * this could just be specific to me and my aging eyes LOL*

I really like the fact that y ou have a portion in which customers can register. I would really like to include that in my website (which I'm still working on, too) But I think I need to use a different builder than Website tonight.

Anyway- overall I think it looks great.

I like the colors and layout of your site. I didn't have to scroll from side to side but did have to scroll up and down, which is not a big deal to me. I would rather have to scroll and receive the information I'm looking for instead of just reading a very brief description that doesn't really say anything.

I really like the way you've set up your different payment plans.

Best wishes in your business.

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Jayme Hanson
Your Virtual Assistant Solution

Good job on your site. I had to scroll across as well, which I didn't mind doing to look at your site...but prob wouldn't do normally.
Good luck!

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Amy
www.porterofficesolutions.com