Hi!
Hope you can help someone who knows more about
SEO than design.
I'm re-doing a site pro bono for a doctor who specializes in chemical injury.
http://www.chemcialinjury.net. It's pro bono because someone in my family has been chemically injured and I'm helping to get word out on the latest treatment. The site provides information to doctors and patients. There is no sales angle. It was designed in FrontPage. I'm working in--yes, I know it's a WYSISYG editor--Net Objects Fusion. As I mentioned above, I'm not a designer, but I've done my
SEO homework to get high rankings for my business' site.
The ChemicalInjury site had many links to word docs and PDFs. I'm making those word docs HTML web pages, so they get indexed and to make the site easy to manage. Also, many people don't want to download an unknown word document because it might contain a virus. I still have to re-work or create meta tags and titles for each page, too.
Many in the audience for this site are chemically injured/sensitive patients. They own older computers and aren't all that computer-savvy, either. We know from speaking with many patients that they like to print out information directly from what they see on their monitors. Very often they are housebound, and too sick and too fatigued to deal with learning how to download PDFs, copy and paste from the screen, locate a "printer-friendly" link, do a screen shot,etc. They just want to click "print" and make a hard copy.
Anyway, the site prints out just fine in Firefox. Do a print preview of the home page in Firefox and you'll see everything's within the margins. Not so in Internet Explorer. I'm using IE6. Do a print preview in IE6 and you'll see the right-hand inch or two of the content gets cut off. Would you take a look at the source code for the home page and see what's out of whack and provide the code required to adjust it to fit properly on the page when printing from the screen?
Please ignore the fact that Net Objects Fusion generates a lot of goofy code (which I know little about), there are probably too many nested tables, and the fact that the site is not very elegant from a design standpoint. It would be nice if I had the time and inclination to learn and design in CSS, etc. I'm simply trying to take what exists and make it useable. Eventually, I'm going to invest in Dreamweaver or another of the better WYSIWYGs, buy a good tutorial, and learn some HTML. Some day.
In the meantime, I appreciate any help or suggestions you might have. Thanks!