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alexm1971
3-18-05, 12:07 PM
We have been with PowWeb for a couple of years now. However, I only joined the PowWeb forums yesterday... Pretty damn neet-o stuff for $7.77 a month. :cool:

We launched the following sites in conjunction with one another. One is for the main company, Brazil Fiesta, which sells tours to Brazil and has a visa service. The second is a visa/passport service site only. It mirrors the visa/passport information from the main site, but does not make mention of the fact that we're also a travel agency. It's been used for others in the travel industry to guide their clients needing visas to without guiding them to a site with conflict of interest (it works well):

www.brazilfiesta.com

and her sister-site

www.brazilianvisas.com

I would appreciate any feedback on layout, content, usability, and overall design. I have been told the font is hard to read on some browsers.

I am also interested in implementing a mailing list and e-commerce on these sites, however, not too sure where to start. I'm familiar with MailMan as a mailing list manager, but don't think this is something I can implement on PowWeb ($7.77 is a great deal - but root access ain't part of the package). I'm cluel;ess on where to start with e-commerce. Any ideas?

PowWeb is a friggin' awesome value. I've turned on a few companies to be hosted here - including a couple of designers who brought over their clients. I've registered 4 of my own companies with PowWeb, with new sites earmarked for launch in the next couple of months. Keep up the great work!!!

amo
3-18-05, 04:50 PM
I can't help you with the eCommerce, have no experience myself in that arena. Overall, the sites look very good. I don't think there is anything wrong with your choice of fonts, but I would do the following:
1. Make all fonts a tiny bit larger or make then scalable. (Changing text size in IE did nothing; you have fixed font sizes.)
2. On the top menus, in addition to making the font size a little larger, I might make them mixed case ("VISAS HOME" is harder to read than "Visas Home"), but a slightly larger font might be sufficient.

Hope this helps,

-amo
www.amopage.com

alexm1971
3-18-05, 07:12 PM
I will play with it to see what I can do. I regularly make updates and create new pages from the existing pages my designer does... I do it the old fashioned way with straight HTML done in VI (well, WinVI now that I am on Windows).

I'll play with some font sizes. Thanks for the input.

Anybody else have any guidance on mailing lists and e-commerce?

alexm1971
3-18-05, 07:12 PM
Oops... and I forgot. Thank you, Amo.

amo
3-18-05, 07:14 PM
You're quite welcome :)

tkbauder
3-21-05, 02:29 AM
I've never done this before but I thought I would let you know that I really liked your site. It is very clean & easy to get around in. Your choices of color are very pleasing - the only thing I would do would be to increase the font size :) The pages look great though! It makes me want to travel!

linnetwoods
3-27-05, 03:49 PM
Well, what can I say? If I have to choose between Brazil and the Maldives, I won't be visiting Brazil in the immediate future... Why? All a bit too clinical for me - I object to the term 'selling Brazil' - it sounds as though you are prepared to pawn your heritage for a few tourist dollars (which I'm sure you are not, incidentally) - I'd prefer 'selling holidays (or selling leisure time) in Brazil' or something like that... The images took too long to load so I never saw them - like most casual or new visitors - if it ain't served up hot and quick, I'm gone...

Everything else about the site is doubtless fine - please don't think I'm knocking you - I just like to give my reactions as an ordinary web surfer, not as a webmaster -I'm not all that masterful and, anyway, there are loads of people to cater for that side of things around here...

Maskatay
4-1-05, 02:20 AM
The site looks good but i feel fonts used are not very suitable. Use a different font size. Brazil is very far from where we are but, your site describes Brazil pretty well. We are also in travel business for more than a decade but have no expereince of Brazil. Who know.... will see