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Hi all -

Have been following some threads. Looking to make some phone calls tomorrow to sell some site-upgrades.

Just wanted to ask for input on this site here: http://tinyurl.com/main0343
To see if there is some things I need to do before taking the big plunge

Thanks & Cheers!
#offline marketing #converting
  • My biggest pet peave ever is video that that scrolls over the top of fixed navigation. You might consider adding:

    HTML Code:
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
    Then placing the below in the video link

    HTML Code:
    ?wmode=transparent
    So that your link looks like:

    HTML Code:
    <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CjUcq_E4I-s?wmode=transparent" height="100%" width="100%" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"> </iframe>
    Other than that.. Site looks good. The slider images take forever to load. you might consider a static single image.

    The other thing I noticed was code notation. Please oh please don't get me wrong.. I'm all about notation, but not on a finished product. and you had better get in there and minify your jscripts. you got a lot going on in there!
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    • Thanks for all of the info and the critique

      For the loading issue, could something like WP Super Cache (or something like that) work? At first, the sliders were on the first page but I moved them to single pages so that the first (home) page would not suffer .

      I had not put in the "Super Cache" because I had concerns that it would do something "interesting" to the site.

      I would like to address the performance issues tho.

      Used plug-ins & such to do the site (did not write any JScript code this time around). Which page had the most going on with it? Maybe I can turn off the plugin and find a different way to do the same thing ..

      You are speaking of the comments in the code? I used plugins and was making some changes LOL - mostly at the PHP level, some at HTML and 0% at the Javascript level.

      Thanks again for all of the input. The idea was just to do some sites temporarily - main focus is the development of software / applications that run in the cloud.

      For the website part, goal was to communicate to the owner that the work can be done. Would not use the themes I used tho - maybe Genesis framework (since that seems to get tons of Thumbs Up on the forum).
  • Found something here on minifying:
    how to minify css in wordpress google page speed insights - YouTube
    Kinda news to me that the removal of empty space can provide a performance improvment
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    • If you use something like W3 Total Cache ( my preferred Wordpress plugin ) it does CSS minification as well as jscript minification.

      If you are using custom CSS I suggest using a plugin such as: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/. It greatly reduces your code lines by removing all the changes and placing it in a single location and a single "call"

      Yes the reduction of "lines" hence the comment about your site notations does help with speed. Also the placement of where things load helps with this as well. - try moving your Google Analytics code down into a footer location instead of up in the head. this allows the visible page to load first and faster before your page runs off to report there is a visitor on your site.


      There are tons of these little tricks to increase speed. you might want to also look at cloudflare.
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  • Thanks again for all of the info

    I will work on getting these sorted out before making the phone calls.

    I was working on finding a good scraper to generate a decent-sized customer list to call (since this seems to be more of a "numbers game" - at least according to some of the threads I have read) and to also have some decent templates made for the auto-responder.

    Should I add more websites on the "demo & profile" page? Is there a general # (industry standard) that customers like to see before they feel comfortable signing up with you? I ask because I have seen others add Envato sites or even sites they did not build as part of their "portfolio". So I take it that you do "whatever it takes" to get the job ...

    Thanks again for inputs!
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    Converting

    Hi all - Have been following some threads. Looking to make some phone calls tomorrow to sell some site-upgrades.