nice site check out my first site though I think yours is better www.puertovallartafish.com
be honest
thanks

First try to clean up your code: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...rtafish.com%2F

Second, split your text into paragraphs.

Looks nice by the way. :)

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first off I love fishing and have a fishing related web site of my own, perhaps we could swap links?

And now let me kindly help you by respecfully picking apart your sites design and giving you some tips (remember it's done with love!):

First, research some keyphrases and change that title - no one is going to search for "home"

That big image on your home page is far too compressed, try again.

No all bold text, ever, it's rude.

the background image is too distracting (that's why you needed bold text), try this:
In your image editing software, make the canvas color white, then set the transparncy of the main layer to 30%or so.

instead of putting "puertovallartafish.com" at the top up there why not put a keyphrase that someone will actually search for like "Puerto Vallarta Fishing" (think spcific) if someone did search for your domain name in a SE (i know peopel are dumb they still do this) your pretty certyina to the top result because there isn't any competition for that term.

The search engines can't read the text on your navigatin buttons, try a css hover navigation, or using bacground images with text over them or somethig else. From a design aspect, they don't look good anyway, you'd be better off with text links in table cells with colored baqckgrounds.

All your phots are far too compressed and just look, well, ummmm, bad.

The iamges in your footer look bad.

your footer doesn't match the rest of the site.

Your background image isn't wide enough, take a peek at it on a modern laptop.

I see you've used "sitebuilder to make your web site. This means your site is in absolutley positioned layer, ie; it can't be centered. No easy fiox for that except to make it a ppear centered ion most vbrowsers, whicch,you've done, learn how to make web sites properly, or hire someone who does.

Your e-mail addres is in plain view of every "spam-bot" that wants to see it"

Your big image on the reservations page is horribly distorted.

Also try make the background image "fixed" if you can with sitebuilder

OK I'm gonna stop now, I hope you have thicker skin than I do, I'd probably be all mad.
Remeber, it's really about I love ya and I love fishing and I lovew fishing sites, not trying to negative at all.


I like fishing so I wanted to help you make your site better.

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Just to add some pointers to Texxs recommendations.

The background image is way too large at nearly 1Mb. I have a very fast Broadband connection and the site loads very slowly - so those on dial up will lose the will to live before they see the site.

There has been mention of markup errors but as there is no DocType specified the site is unlikely to validate in any case.

I am sorry but I think the images are spoiled by over use of gimmicks. Photographs should always be as sharp as you can make them.

There is a lot of style information on the page - get that off page pronto - it makes the page too code heavy. I am unfamiliar with the web package you are using but if this is an example ditch it as soon as.

You have some good ideas but as Texxs says, maybe get someone to build it for you.

I have built a couple of sites with a fishing theme and one has a large background image - not overly large and very quick to load - so it can be done. (it validates too!!)

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He's using "sitebuilder" Yahoo sives it to thjier customers and ties it in with their hosting (ie; regular forms won't work on their web servers, i suspect alot of other stuff too). some other smaller companies are using it with their own brand on it too.

When I worked at Verizon ,they had something similiar they made us use to make web sites for clinets. The whole premise offorce absolutley postionned layers on clinets is bogus if ya ask me.

Sadly, some of these iisues, he'll never be able to fix until he gets his site on a real server. For instance, validation. Well that's not true, you ccan build sites with anything you's like and then ftp them to yahoo. but of course most standard techniologies aren't going to work like cgi, php, mySql etc. etc. etc.

Verizon made them pay a firtune for this extra service too! Well I don't dare say how much as they are quite the republican company and do love to "Destroy and discredit" and critics" .

But suffice to say I wouldn't consider it a good value by any means. Yahoo is much cheaper though.

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Same problem in UK. BT charges an arm and a leg to host sites that cannot do cgi, php etc. We can do pretty cheap for our clients. would be surprised if we couldn't find something better for him. Don't have a problem in principal with BT, Yahoo etc offering quick and dirty web templates if they were half way compliant and accessible. Hell, even FrontPage is better than this!!

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Well I know that I can beat the deal he has now, and provide a great ddeal on design too, but we don't want to get this forum ino a No, Pick me!" kinda thing . . .

So I'm not even gonna go there,

Sorry seann, were talking as though you weren'tr even here, which kinda impoltie. Speaking of impolite, O hope you didn't get too offended by my review of your site.

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Just two quick comments - simplify - don't try to say it all on one page - second Customer is spelled wrong on the button - As a newbie myself to website design the one thing I have learned is to spell properly - Also I believe pv should be capitalized.

I have also been told to size your photos before uploading so different browsers dont distort them.

I'm new but hope this helps

Al

thanks for all the reviews I tried to clean it up best i could but it is my first site check it out tell me what you think
puerto vallarta fishing
www.puertovallartafish.comwww.puertovallartafish.com

You tried to clean up? And you still have 160 markup errors? http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...rtafish.com%2F

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1. It is spelled México and not Mexico.
2. Look at your site using Firefox under Mac OS X and you be horrified.

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