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New Solar Food Dehydrator Website! Please give us your feedback.

 
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Presenting our new website solar-food-dehydrator.com



This is my very first website! It looks good to me, but I'm sure that there are LOADS of things that can be improved.

Your suggestions, big or small will be very much appreciated and make a big difference in helping with our quest for world domination through permaculture.

We'd love to see some purchase tests, too!

Looking forward to hearing from you!!
 
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Under the "how it works" section, in the tan-colored text block:
Looks like there's an extra space after comma before "save money on groceries."
Carriage return after "...groceries." so that "Our..." is on the same line as the rest of that sentence.
Staff note (Monica Truong) :

Noted and changed. Thanks!

 
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Looks like this thread was edited at the top to now be about the solar food dehydrator.  Here's feedback on that:

Only thing I saw was that you might want to add "fruit" to the list of things you can dehydrate.
 
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Some of the images don't have an "alt" attribute.

This page doesn't have an <h1> tag.
 
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Looks good and easy to navigate.

I'd also recommend adding 'fruit' to the list of things that can be dehydrated, and maybe changing 'rocket assist' to 'wood fire assist' or something similar.
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Fruit added. Will discuss whether 'wood-fire' or 'rocket assist' is better. On the one hand 'wood-fire' is easy to understand. On the other, 'rocket-assist' sounds cool, but is industry jargon.

 
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I like it! I'll skip the details since others have pointed them out. The layout looks clean and intuitive. That's the most important item. Easy navigation. And speaking of that, I checked out the source code and see that you are creating separate web pages for different products - BRILLIANT! I know, this should be common but sometimes we forget. I'm assuming you're using multisite WP for that. I'm going to copy that for my own website also.
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I'm glad helping us has helped you!

 
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Dehydrator is spelled wrong and is your main search term
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Palm to head emoji! Thanks for pointing it out.

 
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I'm seeing this for the first time today. I didn't look at every bit...my reactions are, the colors didn't appeal but I think sun yellow and sky blue are appropriate colors for the subject; more importantly, on my laptop the print in the box was unreadable until I hit + four times, although the print below that first box was plenty big. I need to mention that I am 68 and have macular degeneration, so I need bigger font than many but y'know, I'm not the only one. I think often sites are designed by young people with 20/20 vision who use 11 point type for everything and it doesn't occur to them that some can't read that small font. I noticed that the list of what you can dry had fish listed twice. I should perhaps note that I would not pay for information--too much is available free. I do sometimes buy books, and on the subject of dehydrators, my #1 favorite gardening book Cindy Conner's Grow a Sustainable Diet talks about two models she has used--I think one can access at least one of these free but I haven't looked into it. We have an Excalibur dryer someone gave us--it is noisy and it takes a lot of power (we have off-grid solar. The conundrum there is that a solar dryer may not work well in our often-cloudy climate (WV) but we avoid using high-power things like the dehydrator when it's cloudy too... I do a lot of canning and some freezing. One more thing--I bristle a bit at language like "must-have." It sounds coercive, a hard sell. What would be more effective with me is a price earlier in the presentation--if it doesn't cost much, might be a sensible investment.
 
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This section can be better aligned for mobile view:

Staff note (Monica Truong) :

It's aligned on my mobile device...Maybe it changes depending on the mobile device? That would make it impossible to change.

 
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Alignment looks fine for me, but the text just above that seems to be three lines of text on top of another
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Aligned but overrun above
Aligned but overrun above
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Fixed. Thanks for taking the time to give feedback!

 
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In the same list others are referencing, there is mostly plurals. So, meat should be meats and bread listed as breads for consistent treatment.
Other than that much of the text could be edited down for clarity into fewer words.
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Thanks for your feedback!

 
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Will there be affiliate/F-code links for this website that people can share?
 
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Kate Downham wrote:Will there be affiliate/F-code links for this website that people can share?



Hi Kate, thanks for asking! With all of our websites you can use this formula:

(website URL) +( ?f=) + (your f-code)


So, for this website that should look like:

https://solar-food-dehydrator.com/?f=000  (replace the '000' with your own f-code) and any sales that come from your f-code will be attributed/paid to you.

This can be used for all of Paul's sites, for example:

https://wheaton-labs.com/skip/?f=000 (to sell SKiP tickets)
https://gardenmastercourse.com?f=000 (to sell the garden master course)

And you can test it is working by clicking on the 'buy' button and on the payment screen (before you put in payment info) you'll see a brown line, that if you hover over, will tell you that your f-code is registered.

Thanks!

 
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I think everyone has covered any charges. I just wanted to add my 2 cents about the rocket assist vs wood fired. I like the rocket fired better. I think it sounds less red neck. Now don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with red neck, it's how I live.  But I think rocket assist sounds more technical
 
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Saralee Couchoud wrote:I think everyone has covered any charges. I just wanted to add my 2 cents about the rocket assist vs wood fired. I like the rocket fired better. I think it sounds less red neck. Now don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with red neck, it's how I live.  But I think rocket assist sounds more technical



Just to confirm: So, you like 'rocket fired' best.
 
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Yes
 
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