New Reptile Breeder Directory Website! Breeders Can Sign Up Now for FREE Listings!

[wendhend]

I actually don't expect to make much cash with the Google ads. From my experience with them, you are lucky if the money you make even covers your hosting fees.

So, the blue is too bright? I tend to like bright colors myself, so it's easy to get carried away. I can easily tone down the color, contrast and tweak the layout. That stuff is fun and easy! Thanks for the feedback!

[bcr229]

Go with a color scheme that's easy on the eyes. This means you need decent contrast so that text is readable, while avoiding backgrounds that are either black or white. Vivid/neon colors also should not be used for either background or text.

WTF is up with that picture in the top right? The snake is fine, the tongue action not so much.

Menu option 2 can simply be labelled "About". It's pretty standard that "About" on any page means that page/site/etc, and not someone else's.

Change menu option 7 to read "List Your Business FREE". Active voice, not passive, will draw more attention and it fits better in the block.
On the List Your Business page if you're going to reference your Facebook page, include a link to it.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Thanks for your feedback, Deborah! I have professional design software with all kinds of templates available, but I didn't see any that I particularly liked for this type of a website. I think the layout I have is fairly typical, and I don't find the color scheme particularly flashy myself. Is the blue too bright? Can you tell me specifically what you think doesn't look professional about it? Colors and layout are very easy to change, and I can certainly tweak them easily enough.

Color and unrelated advertising are my issue, colors wants to make you close the page and unrelated advertising almost make it look like on of those free domain. If you put advertising make it so it's not overweening and taking away from the content. Use larger banner for the bottom of the page and if you chose sides, chose one side Don't do it on both and use smaller banners.


Color scheme you want to stay within are easy on the eyes and fairly neutral, shades of grey, black and white, shades of beige....etc you can use other colors as well but they need to be soft, pastel like and you want to stay with matching colors and use no more then different ones.

You want to avoid any bright neon type colors it does get the attention but I did not stay on the site very long because the color we're just too much and I am sure many will do the same.

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[ElliotNess]

Personally I am a fan of the following pages designs and each has characteristics that can be used to "flow" better to your vision...

http://www.benrenick.com/
http://www.bhbreptiles.com/
http://stewartreptiles.com/
http://www.reptmart.com/

[wendhend]

Okay, I have edited the site layout. I made the blue much more subdued and changed the background to gray, which reduced the contrast a lot. I added some gradient coloration to the gray, like they have on a lot of the templates. I eliminated the snake's flicking tongue and all other color besides blue that was present. If you see any bright colors now, they are probably from Google display ads. I'm not sure why Google was displaying ads that were unrelated. They are supposed to match the content or leave blank space if there are no content matching ads available. Anyway, I think it looks way more subdued now. Take a look and let me know if you guys think it looks better. Thanks! Reptile Breeder Directory

[bcr229]

100% better - much easier to look at!

[wendhend]

Thank you!

[vangarret2000]

Wens it gonna have breeder info on it? This gonna be a national or international list? Are you gonna have the list of breeders put into specific areas, for ease of searching, or just have them all jumbled onto one list?

I think current colors look good too.

[bcr229]

Wens it gonna have breeder info on it? This gonna be a national or international list? Are you gonna have the list of breeders put into specific areas, for ease of searching, or just have them all jumbled onto one list?

The most useful queries would be by species and state/province (if US/Canada).

[wendhend]

Thank you! The directory is intended to be worldwide. I am hoping to have it published with breeder profiles by mid October. Initially I am organizing by species produced, but I would like to make it searchable by location as well. I'm getting a lot of submissions from snake breeders, which is great, but I will have to figure out the best places to recruit for lizard, turtle and amphibian breeders who might also want to be listed on the directory. I think this will be a fun project and look forward to seeing how it does!