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gnatik
01-30-2007, 08:18 PM
Hi all!
DealsLocally.Co.Uk (http://www.dealslocally.co.uk)

Basic site intro: It is a portal for gathering real bargains, discounts, special offers, and deals. Categories for the former mentioned are: Shops, Restaurants, Hotels, Entertainment, Services.

Site Design History: When we initially started, the idea was to make a site that searches by location and produces a list of results, and thus we wanted to keep the landing page very simple and to-the-point. It once only had the looking glass that you now see amongst many other parts. In fact when we thought of simplicity we referred to Google ... I guess at that stage we had not realized that our site needs to be SEO, and not many search for Google in search engines .

Thus we realized that we needed a lot more content and links on the landing page and the site evolved. There have been other interesting moments of realization, but as they say - the rest is history...

What I want to get out: I would really appreciate all the comments that you may have about the site and any improvements. If you have SEO suggestions, that would also be great.

Thanks in advance!
gnatik
02-11-2007, 03:44 PM
Any comments please? :)
sticks464
02-12-2007, 01:47 AM
I like your idea on this site. The only thing I might suggest is to make all your pages the same. I had to continuously use the back button to return to the homepage to go to another page. Very annoying. I didn't look at any validation and I viewed with FF2.
gnatik
02-12-2007, 07:24 AM
I like your idea on this site. The only thing I might suggest is to make all your pages the same. I had to continuously use the back button to return to the homepage to go to another page. Very annoying. I didn't look at any validation and I viewed with FF2.

Thanks! Yes, we have it in our plans to have the menu on all pages.
gnatik
02-17-2007, 03:27 PM
Any other comments please? :)
theuedimaster
02-17-2007, 04:20 PM
I personally don't like the justified alignment for your summary text. Makes it hard to read.
gnatik
02-18-2007, 07:09 AM
I personally don't like the justified alignment for your summary text. Makes it hard to read.
Yes, I have heard that it is best not to justify ... but when text is in a box, left align does not look nice at all.
theuedimaster
02-18-2007, 06:04 PM
Naw, I think it'll look alright. I think readability is a very important detail.