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Old 05-14-2011
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I've spent a lot of time over the last 3 weeks or so, working on my website. It's finally done! I would love feedback from my new friends over here at the forums

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Melissa,

I really like your website, the circles with the letters in them for the Blogs-B, Realter-R, and Freelancer-F is a fantastic idea and creative.
Everything is simple to understand and read.
Good job! Did you do this yourself? I need to get mine going but the $ is just not there right now.
Thanks and Have a Great Day!
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Congrats, it's nicely done. I think it creates a very good first impression.

Hope it brings lots of clients your way!
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Thank you, Kate and Linda Kate, yes I did it myself. I used a Wordpress theme from Themeforest, but the content and customizations are all me. My husband did the photography. Themeforest is pretty good - this theme only cost me $37. Thesis is also great, a bit easier if you're a beginner, but more expensive.
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Looks fantastic well done

Just one thing that's SEO related: you need to change your page IDs.

For instance, if I click on rates it comes up as http://www.blackinkva.com/?page_id=91

You need it to show up as http://www.blackinkva.com/rates

It's easy to do, just a setting in the Permalinks - select "custom structure"

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Done! Thanks so much, Bridie You're right - super easy.
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Old 05-16-2011
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Hi Melissa,
I personally do not like the top section at all. Just my humble opinion. I think the middle section is excellent, especially how you (in several places) hit home the fact that a contractor is far less costly than a person on payroll. Maybe you did it on purpose but I did not see a price for your Realtor package. Also just curious, do you not offer trasaction coordination services in addition to your marketing services?
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Old 05-16-2011
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I like it, good job, however I think I would expand on the text that goes with the slider. You start with a great line to each however it goes flat from there for me. For example "working side by side does not have to be so literal" and....Tell me why that is going to benefit me. Does not have to be a novel but a few more lines would be awesome.

One other thing, the text seems rather small. For tired eyes such as mine it would be nice if the font was just a tad larger.
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Good job! I like the slider, I would have thought it obvious that you have click on each photo to read more about what each one says, but then again...

Your VA descriptions are good too, and I like the bio. I'm a little confused about a blogroll with no blog tho', are you planning to add a blog?

Best of luck!

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Old 05-17-2011
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Thanks for the feedback, Roy. Yes, leaving out the pricing for the packages was intentional, as I imagine potential clients will want to create their own custom package. This was intended as an example of availability.
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