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A few years ago I helped my friend & flatmate Peter set up a website offering various types of walking tours, and we called it Seville Concierge. Because Peter does in fact advise people as well as give tours. Then the other day I was looking at his site and realised it just looked like a boring old blog that he barely updates (and nobody reads 😉 ), when the whole point of the site is to promote his tours. So this morning I started looking around for some fresh ideas that might help him get more work, which meant totally revamping his website.
Unfortunately a whole two hours were wasted on what looked like a cool theme, but it didn’t actually WORK in terms of what it promised. I think there must have been some sort of bug involved, because I couldn’t even get the page menu to show up. AND SO… I ended up finding this theme, which I think is pretty nice.
I’d love some feedback on it, if you don’t mind. In terms of how easy it is to navigate, and all that. By chance I discovered that each page could have its own featured image as a massive header image, so I think that makes it more interesting (present images subject to change – they were the best I could come up with so quickly). Peter is still working on some missing text, so really just want to know what you think of the design. Also, how does it work for you on a phone or tablet?
Thanks! xx
Seville Concierge
Hi Shawn,
Changes work well. I’m viewing on an Android phone & the Navigation is simple & straightforward.
The top banner image is a good idea, bit of a teaser showing the delights of Seville.
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I’ve been having a look on a laptop. It’s easy to navigate, all the information is clear and easy to find. I wasn’t sure about the front screen to start with (a bit psychedelic?) but actually it’s grown on me. I love the massive headers and the way they stay in place as you scroll down, so it looks as if they’re behind the text appearing at the bottom. And the pictures are gorgeous.
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Looks fine on my iMac, though on the home page I’d like to see a contact email or phone number, just to make it easy.
On my iPad mini, the titles were over-printing the menus, so perhaps you need to choose a different menu style for tablets? (I’m re-designing my own site to use a WordPress theme, and my theme lets you choose the menu style that looks best for the device)
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Maybe a photo gallery in the menu, or more small photos breaking up the text on the home page?
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Thanks for the feedback everyone. I think for the moment I am going to leave it as is, since it’s already a big improvement on the previous design. Mostly because I don’t have lots of spare time, and this took awhile to get going. But if I do any tweaks I will keep all these suggestions in mind. x
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