Shop Comparable Evidence Service – update 5
18/09/2025Sep 2025. Comparable Evidence site update. I don’t know how others do their websites – unless I’m told – but I’ve always done the look and written all content for mine. My first site used NetObjects Fusion until a developer told me it used proprietory code so if anything went wrong then I’d have to find a NOF person to fix it. Onto Dreamweaver and using an included template, ‘liquid layout’. Once upon a time, site designers expected the visitor to adjust to fixed width layout. I wanted my site adjustable so, when the user narrowed or widened the browser, the content would follow suit. Dreamweaver, a steep learning curve for my novice technicalities. I attended evening classes but, because the lessons for people that’d never had a website, I mostly chatted with the tutor afterwards about what I needed to know.
Soon after I changed all my office systems to Apple – Intel inside – it was an excruciating wrench to give up Dreamweaver and get a desktop website designer software, Rapidweaver. Odd feeling having to give oneself permission to do something. Gradually settled in to someone else’s idea of a theme (appearance) customisable only up a point, and in common with many RW buyers, a fortune spent on add-ons rarely used. Despite RW’s developers in Brighton, UK, most third-party developers in USA. Good at latching on other people’s ideas, a clever USA developer designed “stacks” for RW, a layer on top of RW’s structure, enabling other developers to create all manner of stacks to slot onto the underlying stack. Among the latch-ons was a self-taught UK-based theme/add-on developer – “W” – an excellent reputation for help and service. I’d bought some of W’s themes and slot-on stacks so, in 2014 when I wanted on my site my Index-Linked Rent Calculator, I asked him to design to requirements. The popularity of stacks was, in my opinion, a contributory factor in RW’s downfall. When everyone else is making more money out of your idea than you, time for a rethink. RW developers have redone their product, in the process falling out with the latch-on developers.
Not wanting to go in same direction as RW, I asked W to put my site onto WordPress. I changed my ISP, having been with the same for >30 years, to a USA ISP, also popular with RW users – its owner, by coincidence, has stayed in a hotel in Boston USA whose previous landlords had consulted me on the lease renewal – and with whom W has an established working relationship. No complaints about my UK IPS, I felt it best for W to deal with people he knows. Having my 4 sites looked after by others is strange, but pleasurable. I’ve asked for the design, but written all content.
And so to Comparable Evidence site, layout is intuitive. No frills, keep it simple. Target market users are busy, don’t want be faffing about. For evidence, for example, in Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, London W6, click tags Hammersmith Fulham Palace Road or London W6 Fulham Palace Road. Almost there for you to access for any suggestions on improving navigation.
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