Scooter Beast — Sun, 18 Jan 2004 02:37:43 +0000

I was suprised to see only a monochrome layout with pretty straight forward drop down boxes as navigation. I found your sample jobs to be much more engaging. FWIW the link that had the word "Mafia" in it didn't work.

I also noticed that you had a mix of fonts in the Fire station site (the home page has a bunch of Times New Roman defaut stuff and the rest looks like arial or Tahoma). Same thing on your contact page.

Minor comments coming from a guy who has only been trying to get his own 3 week old site (0/10 Google 259,000 Alexa) cleaned up!

Regards,

Harvey
gas-scooters-on-the-web.com

davidjaymz — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:54:39 +0000

how does google rank your site? like not your score... but how does it come up with that score?

The Webmistress — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:25:35 +0000

You need to download the Google toolbar and then when you open a site in IE you will see the PageRank shown on the toolbar. The PR of a site is linked directly to how many sites link to that site.

mjs416 — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 16:08:04 +0000

taff wrote:
My site is currently ranking 6/10 but that seems to fluctuate. I was as high as 7 briefly but have also slipped to 5 on occasion.

How do you find what rating your site has in google?

rosanda — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 14:03:59 +0000

not bad, but i like the header image most, don't know why, but maybe because i love blue.
The site looks very neat and the text is nicely laid out..
Nice site....

taff — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:44:33 +0000

mjs416 wrote: I offer search engine submissions as a free addition to the purchase of a web design package from me. I never said I could obtain top rankings for sites. Many designers, at least around this area, dont even submit their clients site to search engines at all- so I feel what I'm doing is better then nothing. Considering my site has only been active for 5 months, I wouldnt expect any miracle rankings. BTW, whats your score on Googles system?

If the site is new, then it'll take a while. I think it is your wording that caught my eye - "Does Google know my site exists?" - which immediately drew my eye up to the Google bar for the answer.

My site is currently ranking 6/10 but that seems to fluctuate. I was as high as 7 briefly but have also slipped to 5 on occasion.

Busy — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 21:42:00 +0000

The basic CSS is valid across the board, (even NS4.*), but when it comes to 100% layouts then it gets iffy, using CSS for text decoration, links, colours, backgrounds .... is fine.
but one day soon hopefully everything will be supported, microsoft just needs to catch up.

As for your site, I think you need to change the order of things on your site, or at least the sizing of them. in English we read left to right, so the eye is always looking left first, but on your site the main content is on the right, see where i'm going ?
whats with the big brown/black area above the banner it doesnt't appear to do anything and forces the content lower. ok I now see it matchs the bottom section?

ever thought about narrowing your body margins
the 'welcome to ..' and 'featured info' should be bold, not underlined, even using heading tags and CSS to resize them would help your search engine placing, but again your content is last to be seen.

The bottom links are hard to read, blue on dark brown/grey but think that was mentioned.

your example page has broken images.
good start, bit of fine tuning should be good as

abraham — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:50:31 +0000

HI
i think you can put some picture to your site, coz your site has too many text. Let me don't want to look it again.

mjs416 — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:27:25 +0000

taff wrote:
Also, you promote search engine submission on your main page yet your own site scores a 0/10 on Google's PR system. You might want to try and fix your own placement before offering this as a service .

I offer search engine submissions as a free addition to the purchase of a web design package from me. I never said I could obtain top rankings for sites. Many designers, at least around this area, dont even submit their clients site to search engines at all- so I feel what I'm doing is better then nothing. Considering my site has only been active for 5 months, I wouldnt expect any miracle rankings. BTW, whats your score on Googles system?

As mentioned above, I am hearing that the top graphic is the major eye sore. I am in the process of figuring out a new approach to the site. I really like the layout, I just need to play arounf with some graphics.

Edit: Megan, sorry for not starting the thread with the proper title. I wont let it happen again.=)

Edit^2: I had originally tried to avoid CSS, I recall reading several times that CSS is not compatible in some browsers. Is this true?

Megan — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:24:56 +0000

Sorry, forgot to fix the thread title before. Changed now to reflect posting agreement.

Skrek is your last name? That's the part I had trouble with. Maybe it's just me .... It is a creative combination though. Actually, Skrek isn't too bad on it's own, sort of like Shrek. That's a sharp edged wored as far as sounds go, so it could be the combination of that and a softer word (LAN). Sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned it!