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My new website - feedback needed Thread poster: Konstantinos Stardelis
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Hello, everyone.
After quite some time invested in creating it, I released my first website, today!
http://www.greek-translator.com
I'd appreciate some feedback and your impressions.
Cheers,
Dean
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Theo Bernards (X) 
France
Local time: 06:07
English to Dutch
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| Nice look and feel | Nov 3, 2012 |
Not much wrong with it but I have recently been advised to change email addresses to something like - in your case - info AT greek-translator DOT com. This apparently avoids bots crawling over your contact page and harvesting your email addresses (I haven't gone around doing that myself - yet)
The design and layout are pleasing to the eye and that is always a good thing. The big rotating header makes one has to scroll down for the actual information, and not everybody likes scrollin... See more Not much wrong with it but I have recently been advised to change email addresses to something like - in your case - info AT greek-translator DOT com. This apparently avoids bots crawling over your contact page and harvesting your email addresses (I haven't gone around doing that myself - yet)
The design and layout are pleasing to the eye and that is always a good thing. The big rotating header makes one has to scroll down for the actual information, and not everybody likes scrolling. Perhaps that big header could be made a bit smaller to show the start of the information below in the first screen glance. But that is just my take on this, I am certainly no expert.
Congrats on the website, it certainly looks professional. ▲ Collapse
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| It looks very good | Nov 3, 2012 |
You can include references.
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Theo Bernards (X)
France
Local time: 06:07
English to Dutch
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| I am not a fan of this | Nov 3, 2012 |
You can include references.
References may mean infringing on NDA's one has signed. Many of my clients don't want me to include their names in my marketing communications and they were attracted by my own non-disclosure principle.
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| Perfection in simplicity! | Nov 3, 2012 |
Kalimera sas!
Congratulations! It does look professional. The texts are so short that a client won't be overwhelmed by 1001 details on how you got all this experience or how to evaluate the job, etc. However, I'd add some further details (upon request).
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| Dean's new website | Nov 3, 2012 |
Bravo! Te felicito mucho Dean!
I like "your" Greek colours used for creating it, simple and easy to read.
Best of lucks!!
Patricia
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| Dean's new website | Nov 3, 2012 |
I think that the most important thing is that you have it now, it's done. You will have plenty of time to improve it according to your Greek reality and to what Greek clients prefer or not, a matter of having common sense and being self-critical.
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Μπράβο ! Πολύ καλή δουλειά
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lidija68
Italy
Local time: 06:07
Italian to Serbian
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| occidental name | Nov 3, 2012 |
@Sheila
When I was in Greece, I noticed that Greek people (especially those which collaborate with “strangers”) have an “occidental” name, much easier to pronounce
-english is not my working language-
[Modificato alle 2012-11-03 13:55 GMT]
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Thank you for your comments, everyone.
I have seen that email format being used, so I'll probably change it soon.
The quote form link must be redirecting the visitor with no delay. I'll get that fixed on Monday.
As far as the name is concerned, it's indeed an occidental name that I'm using in Proz. Easier to pronounce and the name I was first using when I started out. Guess it's time to update Proz ... See more Thank you for your comments, everyone.
I have seen that email format being used, so I'll probably change it soon.
The quote form link must be redirecting the visitor with no delay. I'll get that fixed on Monday.
As far as the name is concerned, it's indeed an occidental name that I'm using in Proz. Easier to pronounce and the name I was first using when I started out. Guess it's time to update Proz ▲ Collapse
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Samuel Murray
Netherlands
Local time: 06:07
Member (2006)
English to Afrikaans
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| Some comments | Nov 3, 2012 |
1. The title of your web site is "Home". If you want to attract visitors, change the title of your web site to "Professional English to Greek translations by Konstantinos Stardelis from Athens, Greece - Home".
2. Your rotating banner hijacks my mouse's scroll button. So if my mouse cursor is over the banner (which is the middle of the screen, where my mouse cursor would normally be), then essentially I can't scroll down, because when I try to scroll, it is the banner that scrolls and not the page.
3. Most users' screens have a vertical resolution of under 800, which means that they only see the top 700 pixels of your web site. The top 700 pixels of all your pages look almost identical, because that huge scrolling banner sits above each page's actual content. For a user who clicks a link on your web site's menu, it will appear as if no further pages load, because all further pages look the same (except for the little coloured line underneath the menu link), if the user doesn't scroll down.
4. Most of your pages do not mention your name. In particular, the "Contact" page does not mention your name at all.
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| Congratulations, Konstantinos | Nov 4, 2012 |
Your website looks very interesting.
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Balasubramaniam L.
India
Local time: 09:37
Member (2006)
English to Hindi
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I liked the clutter-free neat design. I found the font size a bit too small and had to strain my eyes a bit to read, may be you can consider increasing it by a couple of point sizes.
It seems at present to be a bare-bones version. May be later on you can beef it up with additional things like translation articles, photos, links to your blogs (if any), glossaries, notes about your hobbies and interests, etc.
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| Formal/informal | Nov 4, 2012 |
1. I agree with Samuel regardig the rotating banner hijacking the mouse. A bit annoying and confusing. Maybe insert an arrow key of some sort that you need to click on instead.
2. Maybe have a back to Home link on the quote page.
3. Is it necessary with the Image Verification?
4. A minor thing: I would suggest using either/or formal/informal language, not a combination ("I'm a freelance English - Greek translator... I am an expert medical translator").
... See more 1. I agree with Samuel regardig the rotating banner hijacking the mouse. A bit annoying and confusing. Maybe insert an arrow key of some sort that you need to click on instead.
2. Maybe have a back to Home link on the quote page.
3. Is it necessary with the Image Verification?
4. A minor thing: I would suggest using either/or formal/informal language, not a combination ("I'm a freelance English - Greek translator... I am an expert medical translator").
Otherwise it looks very good. ▲ Collapse
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