The site is indicative of one produced by someone with little experience in web development and/or web design. Make no mistake about it, the coffee site is NOWHERE near ready to launch.
You've selected a nice colour scheme and it seems fairly well balanced in terms of layout but you've committed every conceivable
SEO, accessibility and navigation "faux pas" known to man.
As it stands, your site is of no measurable value to a search engine. You've not given the spiders anything to index and it simply won't outrank anyone, ever.
Realistically, the single biggest thing you have going for you is the domain name. Good work!
Caveat: It's not my intention to crush you or slam your skills, simply to provide honest feedback and useful information.
Here's what's wrong with it:
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<frameset rows="180,*" cols="*" framespacing="0" frameborder="NO" border="0">
<frame src="top_frame.htm" name="topFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize >
<frame src="main.htm" name="mainFrame">
</frameset>
<noframes><body>
</body></noframes>
</html>
In terms of
SEO, using frames one of the single worst things you could have done. At this stage of the game, there's simply no reason for this site (or any site ever hoping to rank well) to have done so.
In point form and in no particular order, here are the other issues that should be resolved:
- No meta tags.
- No page titles.
- No <h1>section headings</h1>.
- Little, if any link text in page content.
- Little, if any spiderable text on the home page.
- Images with no alt attribute for a menu system.
- Pop up windows for site content pages. This is a real turn-off.
- Making users wait for site navigation while they watch the flash content in the header. Can you say "buh-bye"?
- Confusion in the site's purpose. Is it informational or is it an ecommerce site?
- Lack of consistency between pages. Some content spans the width of the browser and some is constrained beneath the header.
- "Mailto:" contact page is like a dinner bell to spambots. Use a secured email script with captcha.
- Generally buggy hyperlink code for navigation menus. Probably due to poorly coded JavaScript.
- No site search feature. This is huge for a content-based site.
- No copyright or text link navigation in the footer.
What you have is a conceptual site. You need to redesign this site using a table-based or, better still, a CSS layout and you need to do it asap.
Ready to get started?
Start with the
SEO guides by our own Webnauts and Incrediblehelp:
All you need for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
http://www.webproworld.com/search-en...o-i-begin.html
Secondly, snag a copy of Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think vol.2". It's an must read for anyone who designs or manages websites. Find out more at:
Advanced Common Sense Home
I'd love to see the revised site!
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