Review: www.highpointphotos.co.uk

[highpointphotos]

Hi

The website will be one medium that people can see what I do. Does the site look suitably professional to keep a visitor and potential customer interested in what I do?

www.highpointphotos.co.uk

I am looking for improvements I can make, also, I am looking for any suggestions that would make the site even more interesting to a visitor.

[fisicx]

I much prefered the older version of the site to this one. White on black is never a good combination especially when the font size is so small.

Still got no portfolio.

On your original post for review you mentioned that you were well ranked for 'mast photography'. This is no longer the case.

I've also had another look at peakdistrict360 and it's woefully empty. This was an amazing oppertunity to promote your services but has sadly fallen by the wayside.

Anyway back to your site. I see a sum total of 4 images houses. Not very imnpressive considering your banner has more images than this.

There is almost no indexable content.

Thre site has so much potential but all of your competitors have stolen a march on you. Every site I've visited has an impressive portfolio so if I wanted some bird's eye images, guess which one's I'd employ?

Sorry to be so negative but after all the advice given in april, it's sad to see that so little has been implemented.

[Eagle]

'photos with Altitude' - I like that.

[highpointphotos]

Originally Posted by Eagle

'photos with Altitude' - I like that.

Thankyou Eagle...

I think the new look is alot better personally, the main image has now changed. Since I work full time and this is a part time business I guess I am getting there bit by bit. The Peak District 360 site is something I need to get back to and that is on the cards. Regrding content I am writing a piece for my local business network and I will place that on the site too. To be honest I want the site to be reasonably clean looking and I do know that will be a problem with SEO. But I am getting the site on loads of directories and niche photography directories too. So, that is where I am at.. I guess I am plodding. Anyway, I have made a little update to the site.

[fisicx]

It's the home page. It doesn't make me go wow!

I assume the images are yours - so why not increase the number of images on the homepage and add a tagline:

'See your house, your car, your family from different perspective - a sky high pictures for £85'.

And those background images just don't work for me - especially since they push the footer off to one side.

And clean and simple actually makes SEO easier.

Be careful about submitting to loads of directories, too many to quickly can trigger alarms at google.

[highpointphotos]

Hi

What browser are you using - I see no formatting issues in Opera and IE.. I am sure I checked it in Firefox too. Just checked and what you see as a formatting area is actually part of the design... it is offset and a fixed width for the footer.

OK point taken about the tagline. That is a good idea. I am looking at my niche and also local directories. So I should have no trouble there.

Cheers for the feedback... thanks

[Stationery-Direct.co.uk]

I quite like it, the photos look good against the black background.

One tip for you, you already have a php contact form in place so get rid of the e-mail address you display, as soon as the spam bots pick that up your inbox will be full up of rubbish.

[fisicx]

Originally Posted by highpointphotos

...what you see as a formatting area is actually part of the design... it is offset and a fixed width for the footer.

Didn't mean it was an error, it just looks odd pushed over to one side. The coloured squares take up quite a bit room that might be better filled with content.

[highpointphotos]

Hi

Based on comments already, I have increased the font size and now show a tagline on every page that sells the service.

I am working on content. I have 3 jobs lined up in the next 2/3 weeks that I have had clearance from the customers that I can use the images for the portfolio.

[fisicx]

Much better. But because you have used images for the tagline and the content header your have lost two more opportunities to get some indexable content on the page.

Not sure the star works, it isn't in keeping with the rest of the page.

Need your contact details on the page and the footer font is way too small.

Content is not images. Well it is but that's only part of the story. You need words to go with the images. A picture of a house is worthless unless you have some accompanying text. On your homepage for example needs images of your work with a description of what you can do for me, at the moment all you have is a textbook description of what mast photography is.

If you have images on the home page these should then link to a new page (not lightbox) with a description of what the picture was all about. This is the content you need and will give you a boost over your competitors.

Are you getting much traffic from the three directory listings? If not then get rid of the links as google doesn't like exchange links.

Few more ideas for you.