This is my first attempt at a site and I would really appreciate any help and advise to improve it. Thanks very much - would gladly reciprocate reviews.

Nice site overall and will be able to be seen by various monitor sizes. You need metatags tho.

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Many thanks for the advice - can you give me a clue on how, what and where to put the meta tags please!!!
Cheers, Tom

Here's soething that will help u understand MetaTags a bit (I hope)

http://submitexpress.com/metatags.html


Anyways here is a bunch of metatags you can customize to suit your info on your own webpage. Hope the template will help you. Just stick it below the <title> </title> tags:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META
content="write your key words here, separated by commas"
name=keywords>
<META
content="describe the content of your website here, make sure the words that you use in the metatags, are also used in the body of text used in the pages you make."
name=description>
<META content="Site Author: your name, year, etc." name=author>
<META
content="No part of this website may be reproduced in any manner without prior consent of the author."
name=copyright>
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow">
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no">


Hope this helps. visit http://ejrs.com/webmasters.html

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Wow. For your first site, it is very good. I like the white contrast feel to everything.

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An extremely clean concept. I really like the imagery contrast idea.

My only concern is on the "links and set list" pages. The text, while nice within the rest of the site, gets lost in the background imagery on the above listed pages. I would suggest reducing the size of those images and drop them into the text as opposed to using them in the background.

Great job.

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Want to thank everyone who has contributed. Really appreciate it. Will tray and sort out the points you have raised. Any suggestions on getting it to appear on search engines??? I have registered through submitexpress and a couple of others, but each time I search I can't find a listing anywhere !!!! Thanks again.

How long ago did you do this? It can take weeks, sometimes months to get posted. Also, the biggest things to remember, content and popularity are KING!

Which you seem to be lacking in both. You need to network with sites that will link to yours, and you need content. While clean, your site is WAY to lean. (Hey, you could make that into a song) :o)
You need content on your pages that are relevant to your keywords, page title and description. By combining these elements with your main keywords, you increase the overall strength of your content.

Try running your site through here:
http://www.instantposition.com/seo_doctor.cfm
This will give you a better understanding of what I am talking about.

Best of luck. (Still like the site)

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I will look at your suggestions regarding getting better ranking....do you think I should put more of the text which is now graphics as readable text???
Cheers
Rich

Nice site. I would give more credence to your title tag, rather than the rest. Maybe like,

<TITLE>The Cloth - Live Rock and Roll in the UK</TITLE>

You'll find that the search engines list more by your title tag than anything else.

I agree, the text on your set list needs to be more defined. It's hard to read like it is.

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You lot are great - I've never had so many people willing to offer advice so freely. What a site!!! Will look into doing more with the tags and try out a few different approaches. Thanks again to you all. Tom