http://hungryvt.com

hungryburlington · #1 (**permalink**) 12-07-2005, 01:56 AM

Hi All,

It's been a while since I've been here. I have a new site that has been up and running for a couple of months and now that the marketing craziness is in a temporary lull, I thought I'd check back here. I remember getting some great tips with http://hungryburlington.com. I ran it through some of the validators. I have 14 errors. Mosly missing ALT tags and using the dreaded "height" attribute. Why don't they like "height"? Anyway, we seem to be sandboxed by Google and especially Yahoo for now (I read something about Google doing it for all new sites since February 2005) so I though this would be a good place to double check our work. I'll gladly reciprocate reviews.

Thanks

Fred

http://hungryvt.com

webmaker · #2 (**permalink**) 12-07-2005, 02:55 PM

I like the design. I think that you should move some content around though.
You have a good tag line at the top. I got an idea of what your site is about.
I think that you should move your Description (What you do paragraph up one spot) Then have what you can do paragraph. Note* Your the first site that I have looked at here that had both a tagline-what you do-and what the visitor can do section on the frontpage. Nice.
I think that you should add a link to your site map in the left menu. Then call that area something like Here are some of major sections. Take a look around and let us satisfy your hunger.---Just an example.
Visitors do not care how many visits you had. I would move that to a section where you pitch advertisers. Get that content on there and the search engines will suck it up. Also, content gives you more opportunity to get your keywords-phrases on the frontpage.
The sister site thing is nice. But, it is right in the mix of your prime white space. I would move it down and bring up you Major sections. Let me know what you think of my ideas. Add you site to yoddle.net. By the way. Here is somethig for you to think about. How about starting and rss-xml feed that your searchers can subcribe to. Then they will always get new menu items, etc. A short news letter at bare minimum. Good Luck.

Psychobel · #3 (**permalink**) 12-08-2005, 06:29 AM

I drilled down to a particular restaurant in Derby and I got a lot of Javascript errors when the Pop up description came up.

I'm using Firefox 1.5 if that's any help

hungryburlington · #4 (**permalink**) 12-10-2005, 02:05 AM

I thought I responded to this last night, but for whatever reason, my post didn't stick.

Psychobel:

I saw those errors too. one warning and four errors. None of it made sense.
Do you have any ideas?

webmaker:

Wow. Thanks.
I'll take you up on the site map thing. It was a back burner thing that I should move to the front. I think I'll wait until I'm further along in my mobile version so I can copy some ideas from that.

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The sister site thing is nice. But, it is right in the mix of your prime white space. I would move it down and bring up you Major sections.

Not sure what you mean... I know you're talking about HB, but I think maybe it missing a question mark? maybe? What are "Major Sections"?

I had the same sort of idea about RSS. When I get the time, I want to figure out how to write an XML file dynamically (PHP based) once a day to pick five random menu items (pick anything I want, really). This is also a back burner thing. Right now we're struggling to make sales.

Fred

http://hungryvt.com