Website Review of: Cleveland Ohio Real Estate Blog
Getting To Know the website.
What’s the purpose of this website?
To provide information for any one who is interested in buying, selling, or are interested in the area of real estate in general.
Who is the owner of the website?
Cecilia Sherrard, a full time Realtor with over five years experience in buying, selling and relocation specialist servicing Cuyahoga,
Cecilia takes pride in her customer service, negotiating skills, and her real estate in general. She doesn’t believe that she is just another seller, she does her job to help people achieve the American Dream.
Recent Blog Posts
Get A Grip - Share A Tip - A high quality post, that talks about some of the current issues plaguing the USA economy, the post also provides some very useful tips on how to cut your spending. On a side note, I do agree with the points made on this in regards to the loan problems going on right now in the usa economy.
Cleveland Idol - Auto Show - Great post, about a local event that happened in the Ohio area. Some photos of the event would have spiced the post up, but perhaps there were none allowed to be taken.
Economic Stimulus Package - As you can guess by the title, the post tries to talk about the recent Economic Stimulus package presented by the government as a solution to stimulate growth in the economy. It’s a short post, but if you read it you will understand why its a short post.
Celebrity Housing Problems - I enjoyed this post alot. High quality unique content that is fun tid bits to read. I was surprised to know that Michael Jackson was falling behind in finances, considering his great success in music sales. But then again maybe, he got sued a few too many times 
One suggestion though, resize the photos before you upload them. When you resize them on the page, it looks a little funny. Plus if you resize them before hand, they quality of the photo increases, plus the load time of the web site decreases too! So its a win win situation.
Rocky River Videos - Nice post, this was something I was looking for on the blog, its a small promotion for the area of Rocky river, a very professionally done video, that talks bout some of the history of the town, and cool hang out spots, and why a buyer in general would want to live in the area.
We Didn’t Make The Cut - This is such a great post that, it should have been digged! Well, it wasn’t digged, but hey I stumbled it! If you had just one choice to choose out of these 6 posts to read, it would have to be between this one, and the celebrity housing problems post!
I am surprised that no city in New York has made it on a top list, and then California took 3 of the top 10 spots. Still though, It wouldn’t surprise me if, New York does make it to the list. Personally I am hoping New York doesn’t get hit hard like California has.
Final Thoughts on Getting to know the website
Overall I thought the web site content was top notch, very high quality and relevant content to the web site.
One thing though, I found it hard to find a history of the posts, I wanted to see a history of the posts, and wanted to familiarize myself more with the blog. But there was no easy way for me to do that. I would highly recommend adding an archive page to the web site. Similar to the one I am running here at my web site http://www.jeancosta.com/archives.
Pictured below are the settings I am using for the archive plugin, in order to get a clean feel for the page, otherwise the default feels way too spammy.
Theme / Design Critique
Header
Very clean header, it fits perfect for the real estate theme, you can’t go wrong with this one.
I know sometimes when I visit business web sites, at times it can be hard to find the phone number to get in contact with the company, but this web site, makes it so easy for me to contact them. The header even has pictures of some of the workers and you are able to click on the image, and read more about the real estate agents.
Sidebar
Latest Blog Posts - I like this, its a good way to allow the users to easily scope out the posts. The position of the latest blog posts, is positioned fine where it is.
Subscribe To This Blog - I would suggest to Cecilia to put the rss feed subscribe box above the Latest Blog posts. I think there should be a little bit more emphasis on this, and where it is currently located it doesn’t stand out at all, and the subscribe rate is probably low.
Find Your Perfect Home - For someone looking to buy a home, and do some research, this is a fantastic feature. One suggestion, although not highly necessary to change, but it would help if the width was 2-5 pixels more on the right side, of the left side bar. Why? Because it will just make it slightly better looking aesthetically speaking. Is it going to hurt the web site if the change is not made? No, but it doesn’t hurt to make an extra touch up here or there.
Final Thoughts On Theme Design
Overall, I am quite pleased with the design, you can tell that Cecilia has put alot of time and effort into the web site.
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It’s a nice blog with great content. A while back I linked to one of their articles about being green. Pretty cool.
I was pleasantly surprised by this site. Most real estate blogs are totally spammy and uninformative, but this one was very readable. I was very surprised with the “We Didn’t Make the Cut” list, too - I thought Detroit would have been the worst.
Hey, I’m new to this blog. Sorry for leaving an off topic comment, but your contact page, about me, advertise, etc are not working for me. They just show up as text and not a link.
Hope my comment is helpful.
Yeah that is because I have not yet completed them, but they should be going up very shortly!! Thanks for informing though.
Great Review Keep up the great work!