I have a brand new site and I'm pleased with the design. I'm concerned about SE placement. I'd love some help, and will reciprocate a review upon request. (That is, if I have anything substantive to offer, as a relative newbie). Thanks!!

dave
www.drclue.com

I tried to open your site but the URL returned 404.

It worked for me, although it was perhaps a bit slow.

First reaction is that it tells me everything I need to know on the first page and it does it with very few words (all that's good, by the way :))

My mind is divided on the muddy bootprint logo - on the one hand it is great, on the other it has a seedy, 'burglar'-related connection. On the whole, I think the first comment wins out in my mind - it is a good logo.

Ah. I can see why the load time seemed a little long... that rollover image/description thing is very nice, but each rollover state consists of an image, and they total to around 100kb. Just be aware that when you add the other graphics on the p[age dial-up users would be looking at a 30 second plus download time.

The load time seems long on pages without graphics, however. Maybe there is something to look into (I see you have used PHP).

On your keywords, I'm not sure 'team building las vegas' and 'scavenger hunt san francisco' actually add anything? You also have 'scavenger hunt' and 'treasure hunt' in there. It seems a waste.

Hard to find any real faults though. Nice site.

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I'm impressed. To the point, I know what it's all about very quickly. Nice layout, good logo.
I have only a couple of comments.......
I'd see if you can't reduce the file sizes for the photos. Took me about 45 seconds to load. On the flip side, I had something to READ and look at in that time, so it didn't seem like 45 seconds.
I'd also see about making the page flex or make it "fluid". See, I don't run things full screen. It makes me feel penned in. Everything is in a "window". what that means for your site - the right-most text is scrolled off the right edge. Maybe move it in, use a right margin, or use percentages so that if a viewer resizes their browser window, they don't get a horizontal scroll.
My only other comment - if you could use more CSS and less tables, it would move your content up toward the top and might be better for search engines......but that won't affect what I see - which is very nice.
I'm impressed. If I had a need, I'd look to you for site design or layout.
(those that use flash and other fancy needless technologies take minutes to load, I have nothing to look at, I typically leave such sites quickly as I won't load plugins on this computer just to look at a fancy animation with no content.)

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Hi dave blum, really nice design!

The first thing I would do is try to put all the javascript in a .js file because at the moment it represents the first 60% of your code and spiders will just consider the important bits (the text) as not being so important because it is a the bottom of your page of code. It also make your pages really bytes heavy (spiders like light files) and I think that it is the reason why they are slow to load.

I would also remove the Dr Clue appeareance in your page title and focus on a set of keywords per <title>. You only need the dr Clue on 1 or 2 pages - the contact and about maybe to cover searches on your company name.

Then I would go and have a good look at this hread started by Janeth:
http://www.webproworld.com/viewtopic.php?t=7578
to learn all the thing that search engines look at.

Hope this helped.

Leo

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The design is really nice. It loaded o.k. for me on dial-up.


I agree with Leo about the JS, put it in an external file and link to it from each page e.g.
<SCRIPT SRC="resources/script.js" language="JavaScript1.2"></SCRIPT>

Way too many keywords, most S/Es don't use them now, so stick to about 8-10.

You could use a lot more text content on your first page, I usually aim for 200-300 words, pulling keywords from your Meta Description tag.

Design looks decent. Only suggestion is rollover should be clickable or better use text and image instead of image-text and rolloever image.

The main logo (on top-left) should be able to click back to homepage from other pages.

Dave,

Nice work! I agree with the js suggestions.
You might also want to place you CSS link after
the Meta tags.

Another point on search engines and your home page..
there isn't much "text" for the engines to "read".
Just make sure that the important text is there.

From a potential consumer point of view:
I think I know what you do/offer, but I would like
to see how much $$$ we're talking about. Even just
a price range. I know I can complete your "quote"
form... but, should I bother to? is it out of my
price range?

~Roland

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