FaithfulScenter Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 I have been working on my website for about 2 weeks now. I'm not planning on going full force with it until after the new year. I still need to get product pictures and scent descriptions, lots of finishing touches still to do, but I'm wondering if anyone would take a look at it and let me know what you think? I have never done anything like this, does the functionality work for a shopper? Should I list things differently? What I have put together I really do love, so please don't make me start all over!! http://mamiller83.wix.com/scents-of-faith Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChandlerWicks Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 I love it! Great work! Don't know about functionality until you have product on. Your boys are adorable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithfulScenter Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 Thank you! That's an old picture, but one of my favorites. The way I have the warmers listed is the way I plan to list the candles and everything else, I just have to get some pictures and stuff together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChandlerWicks Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 (edited) I'm not able to make the warmer section come up. Maybe it takes awhile if you have product there. I'll go back & check.No warmers doesn't appear. I'm sure you'll get everything to work the way you want. You've done well, it's so time consuming! Edited November 8, 2012 by ChandlerWicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
becky0404 Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 I think it looks great! I like the layout and it's very uncluttered and neat-looking. Great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithfulScenter Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 Chandler... Boo!! I'll work on it later!! Becky... Thank you!! I love primitives, but it's so easy to go overboard, I'm glad I was able to resist! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franu61 Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 Looks great! The only thing, I think it should say "first and FOREMOST" not "for most" on your home page. Love the set up...great country look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithfulScenter Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 Thanks Fran, I'm not the greatest at spelling!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ksranch Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 Very nice, I like it a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franu61 Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 Thanks Fran, I'm not the greatest at spelling!! You are welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 I love it! It's really great! Very user-friendly for customers! I can't wait to see the pics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tam1116 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 It is really nice!!!!! Let us know when you have more pics on so we can look at it. What is this WIX thing. I was thinking you meant wax website! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithfulScenter Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 There is another post here about Wix, it is the best site building site I have come across, really very easy!! Still looking into getting my domain name and such. I'll post again when I get it finished! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I'm glad you posted your site. It's the same thing I've run in to. It's not compatible with Firefox. The fonts don't change in Firefox like they do in IE. Weebly has the same problem. Anyone know of another FREE site builder that's compatible with Firefox and IE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safetysue Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I think it looks nice. One question - is that your home phone number on there? I googled it and came up with all kinds of information associated with that number including a map that shows where it is. I used my email address for my contact information because I didn't want our home number out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EccoLights Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 First off I have to say you have done a great job with your site! I like the colors and flow of everything so kudos to you!!With that said tho, Wix sucks on an SEO standpoint... With it being a "flash" website, it has no SEO value what so ever... Personally if going with "free", go with either Weebly or shell out the (less than) $5 bucks a month to get basic hosting and use Wordpress or ZenCart or OpenCart... Much more functional then any free site... Just my $0.02 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I'm glad you posted your site. It's the same thing I've run in to. It's not compatible with Firefox. The fonts don't change in Firefox like they do in IE. Weebly has the same problem. Anyone know of another FREE site builder that's compatible with Firefox and IE?I use Firefox and her website looks great to me. I had no problem navigating her pages. Have you downloaded the latest version of Firefox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 I think it looks nice. One question - is that your home phone number on there? I googled it and came up with all kinds of information associated with that number including a map that shows where it is. I used my email address for my contact information because I didn't want our home number out there.Great point! It's dangerous, especially with pics of her kids on there. I wouldn't put my name, pics of my kids, or any contact info they could use to locate me. I wouldn't use an email that could be traced to my IP address, I'd use Yahoo or something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 First off I have to say you have done a great job with your site! I like the colors and flow of everything so kudos to you!!With that said tho, Wix sucks on an SEO standpoint... With it being a "flash" website, it has no SEO value what so ever... Personally if going with "free", go with either Weebly or shell out the (less than) $5 bucks a month to get basic hosting and use Wordpress or ZenCart or OpenCart... Much more functional then any free site... Just my $0.02 What's SEO? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Yep, I'm up to date. Check her site in IE & see if you see the difference.SEO = search engine optimization Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EccoLights Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 SEO = search engine optimizationYup, What Beth said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseScentS Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Yup, What Beth said.Wix has info about SEO, what do you think of it? http://www.wix.com/support/main/html5/http://www.wix.com/support/main/html5/stats-seohttp://promote.wix.com/seo/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithfulScenter Posted November 9, 2012 Author Share Posted November 9, 2012 The only thing I get when I google search the number is listings of condo's in another state. It's not our home number, it's a secondary number set up with Skype. My email, it's through gmail, so it shouldn't be traceable either. Yes my boys picture is on there, as it is on Facebook, twitter, as well as a few other websites. I use only firefox, and have no problems viewing the site, but it has been built on my pc, so it's probably utilizing cookies that wouldn't be on other pc's. I will have to check it out and see if it is different with the other browsers. I will check into the other site builders you mentions Eco, I'm glad I'm in no hurry to get this thing out!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beth Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 The Weebly people told me it's not compatible with Firefox, as far as changing fonts, for example. I would change & change & change & it wouldn't show up. Then I looked at it in IE & it was changed perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EccoLights Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Wix has info about SEO, what do you think of it? http://www.wix.com/support/main/html5/http://www.wix.com/support/main/html5/stats-seohttp://promote.wix.com/seo/Well right off I will say I didn't read all these links simply due to I know flash websites. While yes, they do give you some control over the SEO aspect of things (such as Title, Meta Description, Meta Keywords), SEO is so much more than that now a-days. When looking at "on-page SEO" work in flash, it's just simply not seen by the crawlers (i.e. search engines). To show you this, go to your Wix site and right click on the page (usually to the right or very left to get the page and not the flash part) and select "view page source". See all that coding in there... That is what the search engines see when "crawling" your site. With flash you text on each page doesn't show up because of coding (i.e. Flash). Now this is not to mention that being a "free" service, your website is bundled into a larger server that hosts hundreds, if not thousands of other websites. Now say a few of those are "bad" sites (i.e. spamware, viruses, flagged for inapp. content), your site being hosting with them will take a hit too on the SEO side of things... I know this is getting deep but I myself used Wix in the past, then went to Weebly and then went to our own site hosted with GoDaddy (less than $5/month... ok so now we are at $8/month but we are hosting 5 different websites). So just trying to save someone a bit of time, frustration and in the long run... money. Feel free to PM with any specific questions or post here... I'm always willing to help others *PS: The Firefox, IE, Chrome thing... I've looked in each of them (all updated as of yesterday) and everything looks fine on my end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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