Website review: Salesplace

djroadstar · #1 (**permalink**) 12-26-2006, 02:29 PM

I,m building a salesplace for horses. I would like feedback on my website. The link is http://www.koopeenpaard.nl/index2.php

Tanks!

DaveSawers · #2 (**permalink**) 12-27-2006, 10:24 AM

Apologies for my poor understanding of Dutch.

Is the idea that users e-mail their listings to you and then you post them? If so, why not let users add their stuff directly to the database to save you rekeying the information? You can easily prevent any ads being displayed until you have OK'd them.

The market for horse sales is pretty small, particularly if you are restricting yourself to the Dutch speaking European market. Unless you are a dealer yourself, I doubt this will be commercially viable.

djroadstar · #3 (**permalink**) 12-27-2006, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaveSawers

Apologies for my poor understanding of Dutch.

Is the idea that users e-mail their listings to you and then you post them? If so, why not let users add their stuff directly to the database to save you rekeying the information? You can easily prevent any ads being displayed until you have OK'd them.

The market for horse sales is pretty small, particularly if you are restricting yourself to the Dutch speaking European market. Unless you are a dealer yourself, I doubt this will be commercially viable.

After submit the horse they wil get a e-mail. Tanks for the feedback

Webnauts · #4 (**permalink**) 12-28-2006, 12:29 AM

djroadstar,

1. I do not understand why it is created with almost ancient technologies: HTML and with tables.

2. Too many markup up and web navigation errors.

3. Page resizing problems.

4. Spamming search engines with invisible text, and in general hidding information from visitors? <div class="keywords">?

Hm, I guess you are not ready yet, or?

You might like to see a best practices example what a member of my team recently created and I made its SEO: http://www.rvv-vilsendorf.de

MikeinFlorida · #5 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006, 01:20 PM

You have lots of work to do on this site to really make it something. As mentioned above the site has navigation errors and needs to be reworked.
The design is frankly kinda missing. It needs to be re-worked, but I'd say for a first attempt it's pretty good. Work on the color pattern to draw the visitor in and keep them. And more than anything else add relevant content to the site to begin with.

And say next time you submit it here please make it in English. So most of us can at least read it. Good luck!

djroadstar · #6 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006, 01:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Webnauts

djroadstar,

1. I do not understand why it is created with almost ancient technologies: HTML and with tables.

2. Too many markup up and web navigation errors.

3. Page resizing problems.

4. Spamming search engines with invisible text, and in general hidding information from visitors? <div class="keywords">?

Hm, I guess you are not ready yet, or?

You might like to see a best practices example what a member of my team recently created and I made its SEO: http://www.rvv-vilsendorf.de

First tanks, for the feedback!
The website isn,t finished yet. Soon al the tabels will be gone, but for now it,s good.

Your write:" Too many markup up and web navigation errors" But i don,t understand, becorse i have validated the pages.....

Anyway, tanks for the usefull feedback!

djroadstar · #7 (**permalink**) 12-29-2006, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MikeinFlorida

You have lots of work to do on this site to really make it something. As mentioned above the site has navigation errors and needs to be reworked.
The design is frankly kinda missing. It needs to be re-worked, but I'd say for a first attempt it's pretty good. Work on the color pattern to draw the visitor in and keep them. And more than anything else add relevant content to the site to begin with.

And say next time you submit it here please make it in English. So most of us can at least read it. Good luck!

Tanks for the feedback. What navigation errors do you mean, sorry i don,t understand, my appolisize.

After finish the website, i will go to step 2 of the development: Multiple Language module.

Anyway TANKS!

djroadstar · #8 (**permalink**) 01-14-2007, 02:45 PM

I have updated my website a lot and moved to a other provider. Can you please review my site once ?

My adres: www.koopeenpaard.nl/index2.php

TANKS!

Webnauts · #9 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 12:56 PM

The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (utf-8) is different from the value in the <meta> element (iso-8859-1).

To make simple:

Get rid of this meta tag: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=iso-8859-1">

Webnauts · #10 (**permalink**) 01-15-2007, 01:01 PM

A seriously valuable tip by the way.

Why do you use spoil one of the most weighted on-page factors for rankings? You have: <h1>Home</h1>

There you need on each page a unique header having your keywords there.

Here you can read what they are for and how to implement headers: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/Use_h1_for_Title

djroadstar · #11 (**permalink**) 01-30-2007, 08:37 AM

www.koopeenpaard.nl is online!