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Old 03-20-2008, 11:04 PM
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Default A college kid with a web site....

So im looking for some feedback on my site.

Both ergonomic and design!

Im a college student who felt like building a website and planned on making some money. Its tougher than I thought. But see what you think. Id love some feedback and suggestions!!

Free Tennis Lessons, Videos, Tips, and Articles

Thanks everyone
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Old 03-21-2008, 12:11 AM
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Default Re: A college kid with a web site....

That's an interesting website. Free tips, free articles, free videos. How do you make money? From Google Adsense? From selling subscribers e-mail address? Just wondering.
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Old 03-21-2008, 12:26 AM
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Default Re: A college kid with a web site....

This was just a real quick look though.



* Your site is not displaying correctly in Firefox or Safari. It is displaying ok in IE.

* You need to remove the Welcome Pop-up

* You need to weed down your Styles and remove them from your code and put them in a external .css file.
Evey time you change anything on a font it adds a new style to your code. Find what ones your using and move them to a external .css file.

* Your description is to long.

* You need to fix this.
Code:
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="favifile:///C:/Documents and Settings/vigliones/My Documents/My Web Sites/Topspin Sports Online Tennis Lessons/Favicon.icocon.ico">
* Your Contact Us needs to be rethought. Maybe use a form for visitors to fill out and submit? You could also remove the GeneralQuestions.htm, ReportaProblem.htm

*Do not name your links page 'links' or it will never get PR

* Add alt tags to your images.



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Old 03-21-2008, 02:02 AM
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Default Re: A college kid with a web site....

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That's an interesting website. Free tips, free articles, free videos. How do you make money? From Google Adsense? From selling subscribers e-mail address? Just wondering.

Ah, well I dont make much money right now. But yes google adsense brings in some revenue. Hopefully more down the road. Just trying to work out some kinks with everything right now.

Would NEVER sell subscribers e-mail addresses though!
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Old 03-21-2008, 02:10 AM
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Default Re: A college kid with a web site....

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This was just a real quick look though.



* Your site is not displaying correctly in Firefox or Safari. It is displaying ok in IE.

* You need to remove the Welcome Pop-up

* You need to weed down your Styles and remove them from your code and put them in a external .css file.
Evey time you change anything on a font it adds a new style to your code. Find what ones your using and move them to a external .css file.

* Your description is to long.

* You need to fix this.
Code:
<LINK REL="SHORTCUT ICON" HREF="favifile:///C:/Documents and Settings/vigliones/My Documents/My Web Sites/Topspin Sports Online Tennis Lessons/Favicon.icocon.ico">
* Your Contact Us needs to be rethought. Maybe use a form for visitors to fill out and submit? You could also remove the GeneralQuestions.htm, ReportaProblem.htm

*Do not name your links page 'links' or it will never get PR

* Add alt tags to your images.
I REALLY appreciate you input. I have Removed pop up. And changed the links page to "tennis sites". and will be fixing the css file.

I did have a few questions though..

1) first and most importantly: Do you know why the links have white boxes around them other browsers?

2) What is "wrong" with a long description?

3) What do I need to fix about that code?

4) Is there a problem with no alt tags?


I really appreciate your suggestion, im very new to this and I am looking to learn more!

THANKS
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Old 03-21-2008, 03:46 AM
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Default Re: A college kid with a web site....

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1) first and most importantly: Do you know why the links have white boxes around them other browsers?
It looks like you have a white background set or padding in your styles. Also not all web browsers read and interpret code the same way. Some are stricter then others and not very forgiven. May I suggest this code?

Code:
<td><Div align="center" id="Toplinks">
<ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsports.com/">Home</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsports.com/Lessons/Home.htm">Lessons</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsports.com/StrategyAndTactics/Home.htm">Strategy and Tactics</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsports.com/Training/Home.htm">Training</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsports.com/Video%20analysis/Home.htm">Video</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsportstennisforum.com/">Forum</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsports.com/Interviews/Interviews.htm">Interviews</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsports.com/AskAPro/AskAPro.htm">Ask-A-Pro</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsports.com/ProoftheMonth/Pros.htm">Meet the Pros</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsports.com/Tips/Home.htm">Quick Tips</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.topspinsports.com/SignUp.htm">Sign Up</a></li>
  </ul></Div></td>
and insert this into your style sheet ".css file"

Code:
#Toplinks a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #FFFFFF;
    display: inline;
    margin-right: 5px;
    margin-left: 5px;
}
#Toplinks {
    font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
    font-size: 14px;
    font-style: italic;
    border: 0px solid #000000;
    height: auto;
    width: 868px;
}
#Toplinks li {
    display: inline;
    padding: 0px;
}
#Toplinks li.current {
    background-color: #597947;
}
#Toplinks a:hover {
    background-color: #003333;
}
#Toplinks ul {
    background-color: #597947;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}
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Originally Posted by topspinsports View Post
2) What is "wrong" with a long description?
Meta description should be about 25 words or 150-200 characters long.

Quote:
Originally Posted by topspinsports View Post
3) What do I need to fix about that code?
You are hosted on Go Daddy right? Your site root is something like Public_html. Your code points to a part of the drive you do not have access to. 'At least I hope it does'

Quote:
Originally Posted by topspinsports View Post
4) Is there a problem with no alt tags?
No there is not but adding alt tags can increase your keyword density and also improve your ranking on search engines like Yahoo who put weight on alt tags.

Last edited by amxfan; 03-21-2008 at 04:04 AM.
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Old 03-21-2008, 12:02 PM
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Exclamation Re: A college kid with a web site....

excelllent. This is great feedback.

I fixed the mozilla, safari problem!!!! thanks soooo much

I will begin using better .css coding from this point on but to change every page now might be a litttle crazy and time consuming.


ALSO looking for more suggestion from other people too!!! All critizism welcome
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Old 03-21-2008, 05:35 PM
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Default Re: A college kid with a web site....

Just a quick note

The next site you make.
Make a template or use server side includes this will make changing or updating your site a breeze.
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Old 03-21-2008, 08:05 PM
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Default Re: A college kid with a web site....

Yeah I have 7 different templates actually....but yes...next time around I know i will change a lot of things!!
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