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I`ve finally got the guts to submit my website to be critiqued by the startupnation family because I trust that you all will be honest and not judgemental.  :0)

My website is www.fromwelfaretowork.com and I did it myself.  You might be able to tell that I  have absolutely no experience.  I plan to insert a headshot at the top of my about me page.  I am still working on the resources page as well.  What do you think so far?

Hello there, just been through your site and it`s looking good so far. I like how simple it looks and nice header design.


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If  I could sudgest one thing. Through out your text you say stuff like Welcome to fromwelfaretowork.com! and Fromwelfaretowork.com there are more of these through out your text. To me it looks better to just have WElcom to From Welfare To Work. They already know your web site address or they would not have found you. To me it reads better and flows better. Just my 2 cents worth and with the current gas prices thats about all I have ROFL

Thank you all so much for your help! I really appreciate it.

Hi Raya :-) What a great idea!

I do agree with Imortal that with people already having found your site, you don`t need to continually refer to it by the URL. One option would be to put in your banner heading, the acronym W2W, W-to-W, W-2-W or something like that.

Another thought is that you`ll want to try and limit the width of your content. I`m viewing it on a fairly high resolution 19" LCD panel, and the width of the paragraphs is distracting. It has to do with peripheral vision, and stuff like that, but you`ll want to try and keep your writing about as wide as a typical paper book page....something like 8 inches.

The resources page is excellent! I also like the inspirational stories, and as Mike Palmer said, above, you may find it easier to manage the site using a "content management system" (CMS) like WordPress or others. It depends how much writing you intend to do, of what kind.

For example, if you`re going to do a lot of interviews, and write the stories of many people who`ve succeeded, then it`s just easier to put in the content and not worry about the formatting.

All in all, it`s a terrific idea, and the site is understandable. The next question will be how you could make some money from this. I wonder if you might get some grant money, or other subsidies from the federal government?

 

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