Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:28:56 +0000

Call a couple of professionals in your area and ask what they charge per hour. Then halve it. Tell your neighbors that they can have as many features as they want, but since you charge by the hour, each one will cost them. If you just copy and alter the one you did for your parents, and they supply the pictures, you should be able to knock it out in two hours or less. If they want something fancy, it could be a 12-hour project.

There are 151,000 hits in Google for [deerfield resort rental],and you don’t come up in the first 50. You might consider

1) Adding description and keywords meta tags
2) Using at the top instead of embedding “Hasbrouk House” in the graphic

The site is awfully good for a high-school student; clean, clear, fast, straight-forward, no animated garbage. I would have used more active voice, but I’m an old English teacher.

Passive voice: “The following list of marinas and activities are provided to better help you plan your vacation. ”

Active voice: “Here is list of marinas and activities to help you plan your vacation. ”

I would have made all the links blue and underlined on that page, too.

I would have spell-checked it:
“We will provide a gate pass for each of your >>> cehicles for display upon entrance to the neighborhood”

But, we all have days our minds fly ahead of our fingers. It is a very nice site.

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