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Hi mate,

Cant fault you for trying but it really is bland!
also your design doesnt fit the screen, you have to go left and right and many people will agree that it's really annoying.

Try www.wix.com you can design a great website through these its fantastic but a little complicated until you get used to it but the outcome is well worth it.

Dont mean to sound harsh by that but a website makes the business these days.

Good look

i think the site looks okay - the header needs sorting out (just text) and for me the image is a bit to big with to little actual content but in general I think it does the job.

I use wordpress to do my design - I've learnt a little bit of code but it contains so many plugins that make it easy to use even if you've got very little in the way of skills
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Don't quit. 3 months is just beginning. You need to center the site so it all fits and it would be good to put your navigation on the top where it belongs and shorten the page. I have to scroll just a little to see it all, top to bottom and left to right. Either that or put an introductory paragraph below the flash and lengthen the page. Content wise it is lacking. Flash is fine in moderation but you don't want the whole site nothing else. Your home page image is very good except for the line running back and forth. You might think about having some pictures of styles you have created. Something of a portfolio.
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Don't give up three months isn't very long, you have to be patient. The imagery is very nice on the site, but try and create more content, especially for the home page, If you don't talk about it then the search engines cant categorise your site for the relevant keywords. Try and go more the HTML route as opposed to flash.
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What are you trying to do with the site?

Get bookings, show off what they can do, persuade people they are the best hairdresser in Falmouth or something else entirely.

You need to decide first then set about making the site fulfill that purpose.

How many people have actually visited the site? Apart from us very few I should think. So you also need to consider where your visitors are going to come from and work on that also.

From my first view it looks like one page and nothing else. Then I found you had to scroll down for the navigation to find anything else, most other visitors just click away I bet. You need to install some analytics - google is probably the easiest then look at how people arrive and leave the site.

On a positive note three months is no time to spend learning and you have produced something - it just needs improvement. Every site benefits from constant improvement and no site is ever perfect, so stick with it and come back in another 3 months with a better site and get some more ideas!
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I don't have the issue with having to scroll to see anything, but I am using a very high resolution.

The one problem that I do notice is that at the bottom left of the page the "NHF: STATE REGISTERED:" part is covering the word hairdressers in the "One of Falmouths most established hairdressers" line. So I see "One of Falmouths most established" and the top half of the word "hairdressers", with the bottom half coveres by other text. I didn't have time to look at the code, but I'm assuming it's a css positioning issue.

hi

this is looking good.
i think u have designed your website for wide screen monitor.
i am checking this in square shaped one.
so...end uses does not like to scroll left & right to see the content.
i hope this will be one of the good tip for you.
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i noticed the line "Hairdressers in Falmouth" and "hair therapy
" did you deliberately put those there?

as quadrant suggested, go more the HTML route as opposed to flash. took a while for me to know what services you offer. and customers dont want to wait all day to just know what services you can offer them.
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For 3 months it's a really good start. Like the others said, don't give up. It took me years to get to grips with designing, and I'm still learning.

The animations on the text, particularly the services page, are so irritating it's unbearable. It takes, what, 10-20 seconds for the content to come in? Don't do things just because you can. A nice subtle fade/slide-in would look much more professional.

The navigation links should not really be images. Search engines can't read images.

If i turn off CSS (which is like seeing your site through a search engine spider) the site goes to pieces. There is barely any text.

I'd recommend probably removing the swf and going all html. or have it all flash. Flash sites can look stunning when done properly, but be a pain in the arse when they're not. You're probably best sticking to HTML until you get to grips with it (but keep practising Give me a nudge on willwilson28 at gmail dot com and I'll give you some tips on HMTL markup

Stay with it though, you'll learn through experience

hi i am Self taught been doing web design for a few years now and worked on computers for 20 years and find it really hard to get web design work not really sure why