Converted Chapel 4 sale - Bristol

Milliewilly

I too have an expensive sports car and make a point of it not being on the photos as it may attract thieves.

Also, the cars on the pavement scream to me parking difficulties - they're not even on the road - no proper parking for a £500K house??

Nice house though.

Catblue

The pictures make it look like the only way you are able to park at all is to block the pavement outside your house entirely with your cars - thus forcing wheelchair users and pedestrians onto the road. That is not going to be a draw for buyers so at least get rid of the pictures that feature the cars on the pavement.

The lack of any parking is going to make a lot of people reluctant to part with half a million quid. Is there anything that you can do to create off-road parking?

silvercar

Milliewilly wrote: »

I too have an expensive sports car and make a point of it not being on the photos as it may attract thieves.

and block out its number plate.

Fire_Fox

Stunning property.

Hate the changes from one picture to another of the exterior, made my eyes go funny. Also hate the fade in between one photo of the living area and another - by the time my poor eyes have refocussed you have moved onto the next picture! Why on earth is there washing in your washing machine and bric-a-brac all over your lovely worktops? This is a four bedroom family home, why is there no information on local schools other than there are several? We don't need repeated views of your patio chair and table, they really aren't particularly attractive, nor do I want to see a close up of your shed or whatever the blue pole is (washing line?).

Robin_hood_4

The_Unready wrote: »

Hi,

The biggest issue I found was that a new browser window was opened when I clicked on one of the links on the LHS for the first time (although links from the new window didn't then open another new window). Closing all those windows got quite tedious after a while.

You can configure your html to open a link in the same window.

The Unready

Thanks - Do you know the HTML code to do this. I have no idea why it defaults to opening a new window, but I agree that it is annoying

Errata

Only on street parking, a front door opening straight off the street, a ground floor bedroom window just a couple of feet from a footpath are not what I would be looking for if I had half a mill to spend.
I think you need to put floor plans and the property footprint in relation to the footpath and surrounding fields on the site to get people who would notice the stuff I've identified ^^ to put it on their 'maybe' list.
The photos are very amateurish and don't show off the spaces they do show to their best advanage.
Tough criticism, I know, but if I've noticed these things, so will potential viewers.

Robin_hood_4

Thanks everyone for the constructive critiscism. Really useful. Will definitely get a floor plan organised, and perhaps tone down the slides. Also agree with comments about cars, school links etc.

GDB2222

My preference would be for still pictures. I found it all rather confusing, and I wanted to study one of the pictures, but pffft it had gone. I think you're trying to be too snazzy.

There's a garden there somewhere, but you're so proud of the roof terrce that you've pretty much ignored the garden.

The front page would be the place to put all the room sizes, garden size, etc. Do you own the spots you've parked the cars?

By far the most important question, though, is how will people find your website?

marcg

I agree with the comments above.

1. Pictures moving are a complete pain. They are impossible to study due to the speed and frequency of the changes and they literally give me a headache. A simple gallery with thumbnails would be fine.

2. The quality of the pics is atrocious. For example - the kitchen photo looks like a film print that has been scanned. You need someone who knows how to operate a camera to take your pics - if the camera had been on a tripod with a timer activation you could have taken the same pic without a flash, for a start.

3. The layout of the site is counter-intuitive; imagine you are showing guests around your house - this is what the site should do: Here is the front door, through it you enter into... then come upstairs into the....

4. This is more subjective but I suspect your house is the best and most expensive by far in a pretty mediocre street. The reason I suspect this is because you only have shots of your house and some very select views. What do the neighbouring houses look like/sell for? Obviously your house is very special but does that justify paying £500k in an area where houses nearly as big only go for £375k? (I don't know this but I'm guessing). I would like to see some more characterisation of the street and area.

5. Font and presentation generally is more in keeping with a Yorkshire B&B than a upmarket sale. Look at the websites of your "competitor" estate agents (Hydes for example) and steal their fonts and feel. The little For Sale signs are really downmarket for your price range.

In fact, the more I look at it, the more I feel it isn't going to work. I understand what you are trying to do, and the house really seems worth it, but the webdesign is massively out. A good web-designer will do you a site for maybe £800 and you could do with spending some more on getting on Rightmove and maybe an 1/2 page ad in the evening post... all of which will cost you money without necessarily getting you a sale, whereas an EA costs you nothing unless you sell.... Just a thought.

C_Mababejive

Very nice but a bit out of my league Will you take £200,000 for cash??