http://www.ssl-faq.com/

I built this site out for work. I'm not totally new to graphic design, but I do consider myself an amateur. The site is purely informational and doesn't have a ton of content.

I did all the web design, content, and graphic design. I used photoshop 7 and dreamweaver MX. Thanks in advance for any suggestions/feedback! :D

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Tested in IE6 56k modem 800x600. Loads nice and fast. Slightly too wide for 800x600. Needs more content. Otherwise, a good solid design.

Nick

I found your site to be very informative. The colors are nice too!

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Nice and clean!

The <title> tag is generally believed to be important to search engine optimization. Instead of "SSL-FAQ", you might consider changing the home page <title> element to something like "FAQ on SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and Security Certificates". The exact choice of words should be informed by what keywords you deem most important for this site.

You might also want to break the FAQ answers into separate pages, and use <title> tags tailored to each. Ups your total page count (and the inbound link count for your home page and the FAQ index page), gives you a chance to give each FAQ answer an inbound link with tailored anchor text, you can use carefully chosen keywords in each FAQ answer URL, etc.

There is some reason to believe that the <h1> element will be deemed more important by Google than something like [b], so you might consider putting things like the "What is SSL?" header in an <h1> tag. If you don't like the default display of <h1>, a short, simple, inline style sheet will let you change it (for most modern browsers).

After a quick look through the usual suggestion tools, some terms you might want to work into more prominence include:

• VPN
• Apache
• 128-bit

For consistency (and to avoid implying that the "//" should disappear), your home page should probably be revised to read:

Instead of "http://", you should see "https://" which tells ...

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Thanks for all of the helpfull info everyone! I definately appreciate it. As is turns out, I might be redesigning the overall look and color scheme of the site since my boss thinks it needs a more professional and polished look (i thought I did well considering it was one of my first real websites :p).
If I break up the FAQ into seperate pages for the answers, will that increase my chances of getting higher page ranks in google?? I had thought about doing that, but I wondered if that would make the FAQ harder to navigate.

Anyhow, I guess it's back to the drawing boards for now. At least I have most of the actual content done...Anymore suggestions on how to make this site more professional looking would be great!

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