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Hi to all!

I hope you find this more to your liking. I decided to make some changes on my site. I`m not a web designer, so I took some suggestions that were given to me, and worked on a different approach. I still want to improve my pics in the for sale sections, which I am currently working on. However, I do have some shows coming up, and I`m hoping that the present inventory will be sold and new inventory will be added.....and those will be photographed with a new set up that I have come up with.

Thanks everyone for your input....before and now!

Trish

www.twixidesigns.com

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Trish Lester
Twixi Designs
www.twixidesigns.com
twix@buggs.net

Trish
I love the layout of your site and the colors are great. Good luck.
Cheers
Sarah

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Sarah Founder www.sarahsperfectgift.com Gift giving made easy

It really is much better. Your samples pages should reflect the new
design though. They are so dark. Put the thumbnail images on white
with the blue lines on the side.

Your into page is cute but hard to read. Loose the excessive captial
letters. They don`t mix with script fonts that well. Use some basic
punctuation and space out the lines some. Here`s a better layout:

Twixi Designs
Handmade handbags

(then the squiggle lines you have)

Specializing in one-of-a-kind
and limited editions.
Home of the Hip Chick Quick Bags.

Enter

I hope that makes sense as the forum post is limited in its abilities.

I don`t actually like the landing page idea ... the image loaded a bit slow for me (it`s just one huge image!) and doesn`t really hold a lot of meaning for me.

I do like the way you have changed the second page. I`m wishing you can incorporate the front and secondary to save me one click.

That is a good idea. I`m not a fan of intro pages... uh, although I (ahem)
have one on my site. I just don`t think you need it. But I do like the
silhouette image of the girl with all the bags.

I was gonna critique the site, but I spent so much time just wandering around it, looking at everything, I forgot to keep notes. :-D

Great site, and all it needs are just minor tweaks. Things like placing text further from edges, or prettier typeface, or maybe nicer buttons up at the top. But y`know what? That kind of stuff can get done over the next year, when you`re taking a break from shipping out orders. :-)

Good morning!

Thank you for your responses! I did fix the edges of the text. I think it should be enough. To Steve..."I`m not a fan of intro pages... uh, although I (ahem)
have one on my site"....that was funny! Actually, I`ve had some real nice comments from friends on that one. One friend of mine said it was "classy / feminine / speaks to the savvy." She`s a "speak your mind kinda gal," so I was very flattered from that!

As far as the albums go(sample pages), they are the "jalbum." It took me awhile to figure out to get them to work in the website. They offer other choices, but I`m not sure any of them can be altered to have the blue lines on the sides. The reason I chose the black is because it makes the colors of the samples stand out.....and, I didn`t do a great job when I photographed them, and the black kinda made the pics pop.

Craig.....were you talking about the font used for the navigation buttons? I had read that there were 3 different fonts that all computers had. It said if you use something too different, that if someone`s computer didn`t have that font, they won`t be able to view it. Is that correct? I can`t remember where I read that now. I`m thinking at microsoft.com.

Again......I appreciate your input! Y`all have a great weekend!

Trish

www.twixidesigns.com

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Trish Lester
Twixi Designs
www.twixidesigns.com
twix@buggs.net

Hi,

Splash page - if you are going to keep the splash page you should add a description (meta tag) for it, I also suggest adding links to your other pages at the bottom of that page..as it will help those other pages get indexed and can help you search results placement.

~Roland

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Hi,

I did go in put meta tags on the entry page. Thanks! I didn`t even think of it! Not sure on putting links to it tho. I like the looks of it, and I`m not sure how to do it and make it look ok.

I`ll give it some thought.

Trish

www.twixidesigns.com

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Trish Lester
Twixi Designs
www.twixidesigns.com
twix@buggs.net

All computers have Times (Roman), Arial (sans serif or Helvetica), Verdana, Courier (fixed space), and Comic Sans. But it isn`t so much the font in its native state. Web navigation buttons often are a graphic. When you capture a font as a "picture of the font," it doesn`t matter whether the end-user`s computer has that font. They`re only seeing a picture of it.

What I`m suggesting is that your navigational "buttons" at the top could look prettier. That`s all.

To me, there`s a single purpose for the entire existence of a Web site. It`s to bring visitors into the place, entice them, build their desire to buy something or read something, and wander around exploring. That`s it, that`s all.

I`ve seen fabulously slick sites that tell me nothing. I`ve seen the most bare-bones places that I return to because I like the product I`m buying. So too, I`ve seen musicians who dazzle with technical proficiency, and forgettable music. Then I`ve seen the most simplistic musicians enrapture an audience.

Your site is "clickable." That means it has lots of places that call out to the visitor, "Click Me!" and actually go someplace. Before y`know it, you`re wandering all over the place, looking at bags, saying, "Gee...lookkitt dat!"

My remaining question is how many sales you`re getting? I`d expect you`re getting the visitors....have your sales increased since the redesign?