My New Site

leslieposey · #1 (**permalink**) 11-01-2007, 08:20 PM

Fresh Life Ministries A New Social Network

http://freshlifeministries.org/

Posted on October 1st, 2007 by Rev. Leslie posey
Fresh life ministries is a free social networking site. Find and meet friends and meet people in different social networks with our online community. Help make the online community experience the best it can be .
Social Network Features :

Create your own FREE profile webpage - Live Chat - Instant Messenger - Writing Blogs - Rate Photos - Photo Gallery - Make your own web poll or Answer online polls - Make your own discussion groups/Join community groups - Free online classifieds The Sure place to use your new mail ;

We Monitor closely:

More than half (55%) of all online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites. .
We combine technology & expertise to help our clients .
Social networking tools and technologies allow like-minded people to find each other. Issues of trust, reputation and privacy in digital social networks .

Here Are Some Facts:

More British workers are using social networking sites for work-related tasks .
we can make use of some cool tools, scripts, and plugins to manage this popular social network better and easier to use. ... .
Blogging, Photo, Video, Tagging Rating, Flagging, Comments, Message Lets Make it safe for all

Paul B · #2 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 02:35 PM

The site won't load...

greg artim · #3 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 04:08 PM

not for me either

leslieposey · #4 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 06:54 PM

Sorry guys i was working on some header that was rong
Please try again it should be fine now
I realy need your comments

davebarnes · #5 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 08:02 PM

still can not view

leslieposey · #6 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 08:16 PM

I have checked the site and its working fine
There was something wrong with the url i posted
Here Is The Correct URL:
http://freshlifeministries.org/ It WORKS!

leslieposey · #7 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 08:37 PM

http://www.freshlifeministries.org/

I found the Problem!

weegillis · #8 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 09:34 PM

Your opening post outlines some very enticing information, none of which appears on your opening page. In fact, there is very little enticement of any kind. Could an abstract of your points be rolled into some boiler plate on your home page?

On first perusal it would appear you have some layout issues, particularly repeating and missing backgrounds which can be disconcerting. This issue can be resolved by setting background-image to none in child elements contained within the background target element.

To start, your pages lack a DOCTYPE, yet contain a blend of HTML 4 and XHTML 1.1. Setting your doctype to html 4.01 Transitional will help to give you a basis, and will help browsers determine the correct specification to follow, and give you a basis for validation of your markup.

There are empty STYLE tags strewn throughout some pages which can (and should) be removed. <style/> tags ought to be confined to the <head/> of the document. Speaking of HEAD element, your documents completely lack any demarcation of head and body, and don't even contain an HTML element. I'd bet that just correcting this error will cure some of your layout issues.

It looks like you're using Dreamweaver, so why not validate locally to help isolate problems in the page (of which there are many)? If you're using borrowed markup from another page and not using Dreamweaver, you can still use W3C's validator. Validation is not a be-all & end-all, but it's a great way to get inside the workings of the html spec and solve the most pressing layout issues. At least once validation issues are out of the way you can concentrate on the real concerns such as usability, accessibility and general functionality & presentation.

For the sake of simplicity, a number of scripted features could be temporarily (or permanently) removed while you sift through the layout issues and refine your markup. The date, for instance, is of little or no consequence, as is the hit counter (IMHO).

One might go so far as to remove as many form controls as possible, for the meantime, to help clear the way. I'm not a big fan of Guestbooks and mailing lists, though my not favoring them may be with little basis. Guest books require constant monitoring and mailing lists require consistent maintenance while remaining regular. You may be taking on more work than you planned or have time to which to commit.

As it stands, you already have a forum, let folks use this medium to comment and stay in touch. One could make it a part of forum membership to accept or reject the regular mailings (like here at WPW).

As Webnauts pointed out some time ago, the use of CDATA in scripts should be confined to pages that are served up as XHTML. Even if we code according to the XHTML spec, our pages are still served as HTML without server configuration. If your server is not configured to this spec, these declarations can be removed.

Another slight issue is the absence of a contact page. "Please E-mail Us" doesn't quite cut it. If one wished to contact you, they would find this page. Asking them to write you will not elicit very many messages in your inbox, though placing this link (and attendant mailto: in the href) will definitely attract a mountain of spam. You will need to obfuscate this link to keep the spambots away.

Every expert suggests that a website needs search functionality, and for usability search ought to be placed in the top right. You have this right, but your site has no content, so why not suspend search functionality until more searchable content exists and your site is better indexed?

I'm going to leave it for someone with greater expertise to critique your style sheet, though one would suggest validating it to pinpoint any issues. Being guilty myself of redundancy and repetition I won't be the one to throw stones. Some careful analysis will surely pay off.

Best wishes!

leslieposey · #9 (**permalink**) 11-03-2007, 10:13 PM

Thanks weegillis
I have made several changes
the site loads faster and i will work on all the good pointers you gave
thanks for your time
i would like to do something for the community
God Bless

weegillis · #10 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 12:46 AM

You're welcome, Leslie.

Here was I handing out advice and missed the obvious myself, with regard to backgrounds. The issue may not be with child elements, but simply a missing background-repeat: repeat-x.
In this way, the background image will repeat on the horizontal, but not on the vertical.

You will still need to demarcate the major sections of your document; i.e.,

Code:

<html>
<head><title>VERY IMPORTANT ELEMENT</title>
[meta elements, including content-type, content-language, description and keywords]
[style elements]
[script elements to preload]
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>

davebarnes · #11 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 01:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leslieposey

http://www.freshlifeministries.org/

I found the Problem!

No joy in Mudville.

hawash · #12 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 05:00 PM

take long time

ldylion214 · #13 (**permalink**) 11-04-2007, 11:38 PM

I'm still having trouble loading it. I can see it is there by the green google page rank bar but its slow to load. I'll try again.
Best, Nicci

weegillis · #14 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 12:56 AM

Your site is slow loading because it is confusing browsers by being such a mish-mash of invalid markup. The doctype is incomplete, and commented out, to boot. There is still no demarcation of the principal elements: html-head-body. The CDATAs are still there, scripts are laced with unescaped '/'s, and we could go on.

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Your pages lack a title element</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-UK">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css">
<meta name="description" content="This page is about blah, blah, blah">
<meta name="keywords" content="keywords related to this page">
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/common.js"><script>
...
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>

The description is probably more important than the keywords, as it actually helps search engines understand the page, whereas keywords are merely suggestions. Your description is "" while your keyword list is well stocked.

This,

HTML Code:

<SCRIPT language=JavaScript src="js/common.js">
//<![CDATA[

//]]>
</SCRIPT>

should really be this

HTML Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/common.js"><script>

Lose the CDATA declarations.
This,

Code:

var e1 = new Array(
'<span id="people"><img src="http://www.webproworld.com/images/search_people.gif" border="0" align="absmiddle" />&nbsp;PEOPLE</span>',

ought to look more like this:

Code:

var e1 = new Array(
'<span id="people"><img src="http://www.webproworld.com/images/search_people.gif"\/>&nbsp;PEOPLE<\/span>',

with the border and align attribute values moved to the style sheet:

Code:

img {
 border:none;
 vertical-align:middle;
}
table {
 width:100%; /* or whatever; px is okay for fixed width */
 margin:0;
 padding:0;
 border:none; /* or whatever */
 border-collapse:collapse;
}
td {
 margin:0;
 padding:0;
 border:none; /* or whatever */
 text-align:[left | center | right]; /* one of [options] instead of <td align=""> */
 vertical-align:[top | middle | bottom]; /* one of [options] instead of <td vAlign=""> */
}

Even though your site will be coded to the html 4.01 spec, which 'loosely' allows older markup methods, you should know these methods are deprecated. It is worth every effort to clear out deprecated attributes in tags and wrap all attribute values in double quotes, such as id="thisvalue" rather than id=thisvalue.

The HTML 4.01 does allow uppercase tags and attributes, but it would be better to adopt the XHTML spec, which uses all lowercase. It will still be valid.

<img> tags need width="[value]" height="[value]" to speed up with the page load position and size calculations.

leslieposey · #15 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 02:59 AM

I want to thank all of you for helping me
i called 10 people and they said it worked fine
i cant seem to find the trouble
i striped it down to basics and
this url can be used
http://freshlifeministries.org/index.php

http://www.freshlifeministries.org/

weegillis · #16 (**permalink**) 11-05-2007, 04:51 AM

I guess if you can't get to the templates there's nothing you can do until you write your own. This site is so full of gadgets and plug-ins from all ages and sources it would be any wonder that it could ever be made valid. You've got what you've got.

From a search of the web, it would seem this is only one of many fronts from which you are launching your campaign, going back to March on Yahoo Groups. This campaign is some brutal, and from an SEO point of view (as much as I can gather, anyway) it is breaking all the rules, when you really get down and analyze it. It is so spread out and duplicated over so many domains it's ludicrous.

The best thing you could do with your campaign is confine everything to one domain, and have a UNIQUE, and DISCRETE presence on the other social networks and blogs. Everything up to now is completely counterproductive (and a little self-absorbed). Rethink.

Best wishes.

Paul B · #17 (**permalink**) 11-10-2007, 01:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by leslieposey

I want to thank all of you for helping me
i called 10 people and they said it worked fine
i cant seem to find the trouble
i striped it down to basics and
this url can be used
freshlifeministries.org

freshlifeministries.org

Still doesn't load... Sorry.

joe90 · #18 (**permalink**) 11-10-2007, 03:33 PM

those blues clash rather nastily

leslieposey · #19 (**permalink**) 11-11-2007, 02:33 AM

Thanks Joe90 i needed that Keep Im comming
I changed to Red ha Ha?

Cookies Are Keeping My site from loading on web world

copy and paste url in browser

freshlifeministries.org

see if it loads now! please

davebarnes · #20 (**permalink**) 11-11-2007, 12:48 PM

Does not load for me. FireFox2 under Mac OS X.

Does load for Safari2 under Mac OS X.

janeth · #21 (**permalink**) 11-11-2007, 10:19 PM

I do not like the way the top navigation is on top of each other. In firefox there are some design problems. Not sure if it is in IE or not.

But under your cool new people the box is broken.

I would also come up with a nice looking logo for the top of the page.

leslieposey · #22 (**permalink**) 11-12-2007, 01:42 AM

Janeth Thank You!
I respect your comments
Still working on the problem of loading
when you copy and paste my url in the top of browser it goes right there

when i type url on some pages it will not load crazy??
I will make a top logo for header
thanks

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