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I have just tried adjust the page but I just can't get things to look right with the pictures, I have tried a few different approaches but just can't get it to look ok. I also tried two buttons linked to prices and gallery but they looked awful and out of place. I have tidied the site up a bit and removed some links. I was also trying to add a slideshow on the home page but the site runs on Joomla and I tried 4 different slideshows but could get none of them to work.

Thanks, I will get onto those this evening! BlueDreamer: When it comes to buttons I have tried them before on this site along with other things but never got them to look right. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can make buttons look good or where I should put them?

I lose a good 75% of traffic on the home page after a couple of seconds. I need to improve the site so that they move on to take a look at the products and then preferably to the contact page afterwards. The site is www.jcp.photos Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

No one able to answer this at all?

I read somewhere a while ago that by having lots of good reviews on your Google places (now Google+ business) page that it could increase search rankings as obviously they provide Google a reason to bump you up. I was wondering how relevant this information still is and if anyone has had any experience with reviews on the linked Google+ page pushing certain sites up the search rankings. I would also be interested to know whether this is the best platform for accepting reviews or are other sites like Facebook etc. better in any way.

Ok, so I guess I will just have to live with it :-\

Hi johnF, I a gree and have been thinking of a few ways I could do this. If you have any ideas please share.

As I said before they are all direct.

No I'm using Vidahost.

I can't work this out, I don't promote my website at al in Germany. None of them are coming from search traffic or referals, it is all direct. And yet over 13% of my website traffic comes from Germany. What's going on?

Hi rallport, Yes it's quite hefty but I don't think it causes any real problems, unless you can advise otherwise. I updated all the images in event folders but forgot a few, will get those resized. I'm glad you like the design, I am trying to get a balance between commercial and family photography which are usually completely different things so I hope it works. The turd I'm guessing is Joomla? This is the only one I've had experience with in the past, to be honest I should of given Wordpress a chance but it will do me I'm sure.

I presume that was the idea but I have thought about it before, all it adds on the home page is 'Home' and it adds more space between the menu and the content. I have still left it on all other pages. I don't think the search engines will have a problem, I am submitting site maps so I guess this is alright? Will the search engines even use breadcrumb trails?

I have also removed the breadcrumb trail from the homepage.

I have sorted the problems with the image files last night but didn't have much time to do the other bits so will take a look later. I am really trying not to use a portfolio style website because I still feel I need to keep things separate as much as possible. I know it's not entirely avoidable but a lot of people coming to the site are looking for family photography and I don't want them to have to sort through photo's or albums of loads of air-brushed models and pictures of food etc. to get to them. The goal I had in mind was to eventually have one tab called 'Photography' for example with the types listed as child elements, but this was going to be a future step because at the moment I don't have loads of different types. I have been looking at the leading studio in my area and it has that kind of layout.

Thanks for the tips, I do agree with the text lenght but was using JCE editor and had problems finding a way to do it, I could always do it manually I suppose. I will also see about the text size and using rems. I am tempted to try and do something with the links, I am a bit worried about child links though because I don't know if you noticed on the family dropdown but the hover isnt working on this menu all the time and you often need to click the parent element to expand them.