jongallops
8-18-05, 07:58 PM
This is the first web site I have ever built. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
http://www.bigskykennels.com
I moved it to powweb about a week ago because I enjoy this forum.
Thanks for looking at it.
Jon Gallops
It looks pretty good for a first website. One suggestion I have is you may want to tone down the amount or size of the background images you use. The ones you currently have aren't very 56k friendly.
ryanchurchill
8-19-05, 08:26 AM
I have a few SEO tips for ya
First of all you have way more meta tag than you need You also have some errors in it and have it in the wrong order. Search engines tend to give things more importance the higher up the page it is. So the order is fairly important. As for your docutype code at the top, thats great to have but it does not have a comparrison built in. This is how mine looks
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> Yours should be similar. I am not sure on the link but w3.org has a guide to picking the right docutype.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>BIG SKY KENNELS</title> (I would not capitalise all the letters. Just the first ones of each word Big Sky Kennels Search engines do not like it capitalised.)
Next should be your description, followed by your keywords. No matter what anyone says they are helpful even if they are not all used by every search engine. ) The rest of the tags are not really needed. You may use the robots, but I would make a robots.txt file instead. Email me anytime if you need more explination or help with them. You have a great start good luck with your site.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<meta name="contact_addr" content="jongallops@bigskykennels.com">
<meta name="Author" content="Jon Gallops">
<meta name="Copyright" content="Big Sky Kennels 2005. All rights reserved">
<meta name="Distribution" content="global">
<meta name="Description" content="Breeding quality Labrador Retriever puppies suitable for Field Trial, Hunt Test, fowl hunting and companionship. Providing for stud genetically sound, titled male Labrador Retrievers.">
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="30 days">
<meta name="Generator" content="NetObjects Fusion 8 for Windows">
<meta name="Keywords" content="big sky kennels, gallops, hamilton, georgia, ga., labrador retrievers, labradors, retriever breeder, hunt test, GRHRCH, HRCH, MH, field trial, companion, puppies, puppy litters, canines, pets, OFA, CERF, dog clubs, HRC, AKC, georgia breeders,nfc,nafc,afc, fc cnfc, cnafc,cfc,cafc">
<meta name="Rating" content="general, sporting dogs">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="30 days">
<meta name="Robots" content="index, follow">
YvetteKuhns
8-19-05, 11:58 AM
There is some horizontal scrolling at 800x600 screen resolution. Your table width=830 and should be less than 800 pixels to compensate for the vertical scrollbar width. If you use a relative width="100%", this will fill the screen at any resolution. The logo banner is 730 pixels wide, so it will fit in the page without creating horizontal scrolling.
Instead of an image background, choose a light color so the background does not compete with text or images. The graphics are not very attractive. The navigation menu would load faster if you use one blank button for the background and label each button with regular text. That way, you only need one image or two images if using a mouseover alternative button style. Or use CSS to simulate buttons. Because your site will include photos of puppies, you want to cut down on the load time and only use images that are necessary.
When hovering/mousing over text links, the font size, style or face should not change. When it does, the text appears to jump and that is difficult to read and bothers the eyes. The site is easy to read and navigate. There is contact information on the contact page. The site is well planned and includes a site map. It just needs to look more attractive. That means a nicer logo, replace the huge page name banners with text, use a nicer navigation menu, and pick an attractive color scheme. That will make it look more professional. For a first site, it is nice, but we don't want it to LOOK like it is someone's first site. ;)
jongallops
8-19-05, 06:53 PM
Thank you everyone for your input. I will get to work on these items asap!
Jon Gallops
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