Re: Honest Opinions Please
First I would like to start off by saying I admire what you are doing and wish you the best of luck in your efforts.
Looking at your code I see that you used Dreamweaver to create the static html files and you also are using templates to edit these pages. To help you in your efforts and ease of edibility of the pages, I would recommend using a program like WordPress and create your site with it as it may be alot easier to manage.
Also looking at your code I have noticed a few things that you may want to consider.
1. Your meta name="copyright" says 2006. This should be updated.
2. Your meta name= distribution, revist-after, robots can be removed as they do not do any good.
3. You have 2 styles in the head of your code.
4. I wholeheartedly agree with Dave regarding the handprint background. I think you added this background to give your page some color and fun, but in doing so you made the navigation difficult to read and also made your page appear fragmented as some elements have a white background, some others have a tan or transparent. With your page dealing with children that are hospitalized, I would guess you would want it to be viewable and navigatable by all, especially not knowing their particular injury or ailment. With that in mind, you may want to add title attributes to your text links and use an arial font as it is easier to read.
5. It appears that you want to take people away from your page. Besides the Google ads doing this, you also have navigational links to a different site that open in the same window. These links should open in a new tab or window.
6. Your About Us page I did not like at all. Your visitors do not care about you. They are interested in what you are doing and what your organization is doing. I did not see where you gave reason for what your organization is doing. I also did not see any call to action for people to help. I would have expected to have found organizational background information "when was it started, why was it started, where was it started, your non-profit status, when was it obtained, a call to action for those who want to help, your location".
7. The only call to action prompt I saw was on your donations page. This individual link gets lost with the rest of your navigation. I also thought this page contained more information about you than your about us page.
8. You may want to include a sitemap.xml file and submit it to Google, Yahoo and MSN.
9. Your contact us form does not appear to be working properly. I hit send with a blank form and my email client opened with the following:
name=
email=
address=
city=
state=
zip=
phone=
services=
submit=submit
10. On your coloring pages you need to proofread and check your grammar. Also, the link December 2008 is broken. You also have links on this page that make people leave your site.
11. I noticed only your home page has a page rank. I also noticed several of your other pages have more outbound links than anything else. Some of these external links go to totally unrelated pages. You may want to consider the use of rel="nofollow" on some of these links and linking to irrelevant sites will not help you.
Hope this helps.
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