Hi,

I just finished my site and would appreiciate if a few people would take a look at it and give me a review.

It is at

www.rinseout.co.uk

Thanks in advance

Paul Campbell


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Loads reasonably fast on my 56k modem. Might be nice if the links changed colour when the mouse is passed over them. Overall, a good solid design. All you need now is lots of visitors to get those forums really buzzing. Good luck with it.

Nick

Its good, i do think how ever that a style sheet would help you position the text better and cut down on code, something worth looking into.

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Hey man, nice site, Clean layout from a drum n bass fan from Atlanta, GA. Keep up the good work!

Downloaded pretty fast, it's a good idea not to use too many large pictures and 'flash' images,a lot of musical sits do, the links were fine also, informative and easy to navigate, have a look at how different your site is to another unknown band, you'll see what I mean, it's a great site in my opinion but the first page is a slow load www.thecoralreefers.com happy listening!

The site overall looks great, the lay is good, the nav of the site flows well, but your over all page prominence % is only 54% this should be higher to get ranked higher in the engines, below is a Page Analysis for key words (Drum and Bass)
on Google UK this is only a report for the listed keywords.

Head
Main Page Title Summary: 85.7%
Google(UK)Top Averages for Title: 52.4%
Main Page Meta Keywords Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Meta Keywords: 54.1%
Main Page Meta Description Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Meta Description: 56.4%
Body
Main Page Heading Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Heading: 52.2%
Main Page Link Text Summary:68.1%
Google (UK) Top Averages for Link Text: 40.9%
Main Page Hyperlink Url Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Hyperlink Url: N/A
Main Page Alt Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Alt: 50.1%
Main Page Comment Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Comment: 44.6%
Main Page Body Text Summary: 9.9%
Google (UK) Top Averages for Body Text: 43.4%

Overall Main Page 54.6%

The overall totals above are only your overall averages for prominence. The average prominence is NOT a percentage indicator of the "correctness" or overall score for your page.
*Top Averages for Google (UK) are based on the average scores of the top 5 positions for dozens of keyword searches conducted.

Page PropertiesPage Properties Main Page
Most times keyword repeated in a row: 0
Has same color text used as the background: Yes (this is a red flag to the engine spiders)
Has Hidden Input area: No
Uses Meta Refresh: No
Uses frames: No
Uses controls: No
Uses Java Script: Yes
Uses VBScript: No

The site overall looks great, the lay is good, the nav of the site flows well, but your over all page prominence % is only 54% this should be higher to get ranked higher in the engines, below is a Page Analysis for key words (Drum and Bass)
on Google UK this is only a report for the listed keywords.

Head
Main Page Title Summary: 85.7%
Google(UK)Top Averages for Title: 52.4%
Main Page Meta Keywords Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Meta Keywords: 54.1%
Main Page Meta Description Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Meta Description: 56.4%
Body
Main Page Heading Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Heading: 52.2%
Main Page Link Text Summary:68.1%
Google (UK) Top Averages for Link Text: 40.9%
Main Page Hyperlink Url Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Hyperlink Url: N/A
Main Page Alt Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Alt: 50.1%
Main Page Comment Summary: None
Google (UK) Top Averages for Comment: 44.6%
Main Page Body Text Summary: 9.9%
Google (UK) Top Averages for Body Text: 43.4%

Overall Main Page 54.6%

The overall totals above are only your overall averages for prominence. The average prominence is NOT a percentage indicator of the "correctness" or overall score for your page.
*Top Averages for Google (UK) are based on the average scores of the top 5 positions for dozens of keyword searches conducted.

Page PropertiesPage Properties Main Page
Most times keyword repeated in a row: 0
Has same color text used as the background: Yes (this is a red flag to the engine spiders)
Has Hidden Input area: No
Uses Meta Refresh: No
Uses frames: No
Uses controls: No
Uses Java Script: Yes
Uses VBScript: No

As far as 'design' and 'look' I would say it is fine, however you must fix your audio links!

Such a professional looking site cannot have audio links opening up in a big blank page with only a control bar in it (mine opened the Quicktime player) but that is my default audio plug-in.

There are several options to fix this problem:
1. audio links pop up in a small player window
Use Javascript to open a small window with the name of the track, the artist or DJ, and a little information about it. A close button would be a nice touch, as well.

2. embed audio players in web pages about the artist or DJ that created the track. You could set the default action of the player to 'false' to prevent annoying those who are not interested in auto-playing tracks

3. create a small MP3 player with Flash that can appear in a frame or in a little pop up window. The Flash MP3 player can be designed in such a way that a menu of available tracks, information about the artist/DJ, and the playlist of MP3's could be easily updated.

Another point:
Your MP3's are too large. damagamix.mp3 is 27 MB! Other ones were in the 7-10MB category. Way too large. One easy way to cut them in half: bounce the trax to mono before creating the MP3s.
The first rule of internet audio is MONO unless it absolutely positively has to be stereo... and if you think it has to be stereo, think about it again.

Consider that many people listening to your tracks are going to be on slow dial-up modems with low quality speakers. Only digital audio geeks (like me) have 5 speaker JBL systems for listening to their computers.


But whatever you do, never allow audio tracks to consume an entire browser window with no other content. Especially if the audio page replaces your well designed site with an otherwise empty window!

Most people using a modem will forget the name of the track before enough of it loads to begin playing.... I myself instantly hit my browser's back button when I saw the blank page loading an MP3, and I am using DSL. I want to read about the track or artist while I am waiting for it to load.

One final point:
your MP3s are not download protected. Another reason to go with a Flash-made jukebox of sorts: listeners can only hear the MP3s when loaded into the Flash player. Unless your intention is for the MP3s to be downloaded, in which case you could indicate instructions near the link (right click and save-as, etc...) and give the viewer some idea of the track's file size so that they can decide if they are willing to wait for it.

I don't mean to sound so critical, the site is otherwise quite nice, but if you want people to listen to your featured tracks, you really should shrink 'em a bit and don't lay them out all by themselves in the cold!

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Cheers for the pointers guys, I will make the ammends as soon as i get done promoting my current project (Why is it personal projects are so much more fun than big corporate ones)

Thanks again

Paul

site will not rank till meta tag is fixed

current
<head>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
<!--

//-->

function MM_openBrWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}//-->
</script>


<title>► Drum and Bass and Hip Hop: Substance UK and Austria Underground music events</title>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META
content="Drum and Bass, Hip Hop, bradford drum and bass, austria drum and bass, paul c, dexterity, mr brown, noelface, jack man beef, substance, international."
name=keywords>
<META
content="Substance crew, International Drum and Bass and Hip Hop Crew. DJ's MC's and Producers based in Bradford, London and Innsbruck"
name=description>

</head>

Really?

What should i do to the meta tags - whats wrong with them at the moment?

Oh yeah - ask a stupid question...