Lay My Hat

Our Quercy holiday home is up for sale. We bought the property about 12 years ago as our holiday cottage in France. We subsequently moved full time to France and lived in the property for the first few months before buying a larger family home. In subsequent years we have rented out the cottage. See...

I run a number of e-commerce sites selling Australian shade sails manufactured by Sail Shade World. We have a limited number of shade sails in green, a colour which has not proven very popular with the French, and are being offered at half price. 140 euros reduced to 70. As Lay My Hat forum readers ...

In February this year we ran a 10% off promotion on our shade sails for Lay My Hat forum readers, which seemed to be well received. This has now ended and with the sunny weather we have been enjoying recently the shade sails are flying out! We have a very limited number of 3.6m Triangles and 5m Tria...

Shade Sails are a stylish shade solution that provide an economical and attractive alternative to the usual parasols and pergolas. We are distributors in France for Shade Sails from shadesailworld in Australia - the No.1 supplier worldwide with over 30,000 sold. These are top quality items with a 10...

Thanks for the helpful feedback on pricing. We have played around with it over the years but settled on something that seems to work for us. Will reconsider for next year. Haven't changed the home page - it will load much faster the second time you visit as your browser will have cached the images. ...

Yes that's a fair point - the loading time is governed by the "size" of the page, which in turn is driven by the images. Large, high quality images take time to load. having said that the page is pretty well optimised and has a size of 200KB - this would be less if you had fewer images in ...

As it says on the site, we only offer the property for 15 weeks over the summer. All but one week already sold for 2011.

However, I agree that if no-one looks at the detail on the site it could be misleading - I've updated the "more details" page to clarify this point.

We have been living permanently in France since 2004 and have a successful web design business with a wide variety of international clients. We have our own rental properties and you can rest assured that we have spared no effort in creating and optimising our own websites to generate the best resul...

Just checked with CA Britline yesterday as I want to transfer some euros to France. I am using Moneycorp to do the exchange conversion and they then transfer it to Britline. Britline make no charge for receiving the funds, but they do send you an automated letter to tell you that you have received s...

Enquiries and bookings were OK, but we received most of our bookings before Feb - we are only selling mid June to mid-Sept.

This was just to get a comparison of referrals as an indicator of how their new website is performing.

There is now a French based supplier of these Shade Sails and they are aiming at the English market in France. You can see their installation guide here: http://www.shadesailsfrance.com/pd25-Shade-Sail-Installation.html And they have a downloadable pdf - they recommend using screwed turnbuckle tensi...

Just registered to add to this thread. Checking my visitor stats (Google Analytics) and comparing the last month with the same period last year shows some interesting results for Chez Nous. This is a valid comparison as our overall promotional package is the same. Last year we got 61 referrals (clic...