Please review http://www.horizonshutters.com/ from both a design and seo standpoint.

Also, I designed a secondary site to post articles and attract more traffic. So, if you have time please also review http://www.allaboutshutters.com/.

Any tips are greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

As a former interior designer I think your site is great with only a couple exceptions.

First: it is easy to navigate and things make sense. The layout is fine -- not messy and not stilted.

The problems I experienced were:
1. the fading effect in the transitions in your slide show on the index page. It kept clouding out white which was very disconcerting when trying to read the rest of the page.
2. The other problem was that the color "chips" on your painted shutter color chart have no relation at all to the similar colors you list. As a former Benjamin Moore dealer I know what the various off whites are and they sure aren't what was showing on my computer. Perhaps the better part of valour is to take off the "Paint chips" completely and just leave the listing of what the similar colors are. Give people the option of ordering a chip from you so they can see the real thing. Your prices are high enough that you can afford to send out some sample chips and maybe get some large orders that you otherwise might miss.

Your cost estimate page worked very quickly, and I put in really wild window specs just to see what would happen. No sense doing standard sizes -- those you can buy at Lowe's (ouch).

I did like your site very much with only the two above exceptions. I didn't check your meta tags, etc.......just viewed it from the point of a consumer. Good luck

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I didn't have a whole lot of time to completely go through your entire site, but what I did see amazed me.

Beautiful page layouts, colors are very eye pleasing. All navigation that I experienced worked very well. The pages load extremely fast for me, and the parts of the sight that I did see were very well explained.

I think you have a gem, and wish you every success!

Davey

You might want to view your site in Firefox or any Mozilla browser - the homepage Flash presentation does not play for some reason.

Consider adding rollover effects to your links on the home page. (You have them on the navigation on your interior pages and it looks nice.)

In regard to layout, the content might "feel" better if it were presented centered on the page and not justified left (it feels tilted, especially on a larger screen).

In your keywords, you've used the word "shutters" 14 times, which can be considered spamming; max times s/b 3.

Good luck with your online venture!

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