Originally Posted By: gromicko This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Our Canadian web-site is almost done. We’re still working on it. We had to hire a Canadian company as Canadian law prohibits all but Canadian companies from registering .ca sites. .ca is the Canadian domain extension.
Our servers in Canada can handle 4 million hits/hour.
Although it will be Canadian biased, we state-side NACHI inspectors will be included. NACHI is relinquishing content responsibility over to our Canadian members.
Please comment on this website here on this message board.
Also, please help both our Canadian inspectors as well as NACHI inspectors in the states by taking the insurance survey at http://www.nachi.org/insurancesurvey.htm We're close to getting big premium discounts on E&O. Note: this is not the survey in www.nachi.ca . This is a different one we need everyone to complete.
Nick
PS Much thanks to member Gene Wallis for his help.
Originally Posted By: ltrower This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I sure wish John would take a couple of minutes and tell us about that fish he is holding. The vest isn’t bad either. All I can find down here are the short ones.
Originally Posted By: Nick Gromicko This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
What don’t you like about the site. Brutal criticism please. I have to let the Canadian company that built it know what we want and don’t want before we unroll it.
Originally Posted By: dvalley This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Nick,
You are asking us for negative feedback on the ca. site. Ok. Like I said.... The site looks excellent but negative feedback you shall receive.
1.) The site is not using the full web page to advertise their services. There's too much blank space on all pages. I say NACHI should take advantage of this blank space and add more information about our organization and our Inspectors, at the lower part of the page.
2)The white NACHI logo on the top left corner is the wrong color. Too much white makes it blend into the white flag colors.
3)The Real Estate link shows two women. One holding blueprints and the other dressed in a lab suit. Where's the photo of the real Estate agent? Or Real Estate related material?
4)The Inspector link shows an electrician who happens to be in front of a water heater, holding romex wire. Not even related to Home Inspections.(Unless the Home Inspector decided to fix the unprotected hanging wire.) Which we do not handle any defective items whatsoever. Doesn't look right.
Where's the Home Inspector with his tool bag and client. Maybe shaking hands with his client in front of their pending home. Or an Inspector standing in front of whatever mechanics he is Inspecting, holding a flashlight or a measuring tool.
You wanted negative feedback...You got it. Theres my 2 pesos worth. 
Originally Posted By: afernbaugh This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Nick and Chris,
I see a big difference between Nachi.org and Nachi.ca
1) The Nachi.cs site looks like a new ad agency's idea; too many pictures not enough straight forward verbiage.
2) I still remember my first impression of Nachi.org. There were over 20 pages of reading and packed with useful information. I couldn't wait to devour the whole thing. When I visited nachi.ca. I was bored in 15 seconds or less. We need some really sharp hooks to get visitors excited and keep them there to read.
3) If you want to keep up with the pictorial style that nachi.ca has then you need to send them some home inspection pictures or real estate photos...or something...anything but the stock room generics I see there.
4) The color scheme in nachi.org is good. The blues and burgundy set a good business type mood. The nachi.ca colors are too earthy and lack coordination.
I know it takes time to do it right and I realize our Canadian friends need and want to do their own "thing" but if it ain't broke don't fix it!
-- Alan Fernbaugh
Five Star Inspection Services
Baton Rouge, La.
Originally Posted By: lmartin This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Was looking at the nachi site for Canada, perhaps have a map for each province for a client to contact , Have larger letters for Canada , not abbreviate them , like Ca. , NB , etc . Have members of Nachi from Canada get referrals , from Clients and realtors, on how important a Home inspection is and publish them in text, so readers see who is intersted in Home Inspections.
Originally Posted By: Chris Morrell This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I’ll put up more later, but suffice it to say that I absolutely hate nachi.ca. It’s 6 poorly designed pages with poorly chosen pictures and colors. It was designed with outdated html methods that aren’t accessable or search-engine friendly (except for the unmemorable “search-engine friendly naming system”). It links to an external site “satisfactionreaction.com” which makes us look unprofessional, and then gives the user no way to get back to nachi.ca. The design is static rather than fluid (meaning there’s lots of blank space). Ugh. I have to stop now.
Originally Posted By: dvalley This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Chris,
Either you have ESP or it's a coincidence that when Nick had asked you "What was on your mind?", that you replied three minutes before he posted it. Strange circumstance , huh?
Originally Posted By: ecrofutt This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I REALLY like the immediate, very visible, split between
Home Buyers - Sellers
Realtors
Home Inspectors.
I wish we had that on this site.
However, as soon as I move on, the site immediately falls flat with little relative information and a big emphasis on taking the survey and winning prizes instead of valuable HI content.