Hi All,

Just set up a new blog and a squeeze page and I'd really appreciate some comments.
I think they're OK but of course criticisms always make things better.

Here are the url's

Make Money Online|Online Business | IMRiches
Make Money Online (this is for the squeeze page)

Thanks in advanced

I like it. Nice choice of templates. This one isn't seen as much as many others.
Nits
1. When you hit home, the about is white, not gold giving the visitor the impression that they are on the about page.
2. You can see where you cut out the blue bird for the twitter link. A little touch up in Photoshop is all that is needed.
3. The logo area looks a little on the empty side, but it works. I don't know if putting anything else up there is going to take away from the page, but perhaps a professional logo of some sort would help set it off. I like it, but I don't.
4. From surfing around your site, just a little bit, on your right nav bar under pages I noticed some of them are gold, some of them are white, some are underlined, some are not. I didn't keep track of what pages I went to, but I am thinking that they change due to the ones I visited in comparison to the one's I did not. Personally I have always liked to keep the visited and non-visited links the same that way your nav doesn't look half white, half gold and retains the beauty no matter what page I have been to.
5. You should change your keywords and description from default to one's pertaining to your site.
a. I see you are running platinum seo pack. This add-on is adding a second description tag below the default. The search engines will see the default one first, then see the second one. I don't think this is going to help with SEO. Personally I run All in one SEO, so I am unsure of how the add-on you have works, but I don't have an issue with the all in one SEO.
6. You need to turn off directory indexing as seen here http://imriches.info/wp-content/themes/curious/images/
7. Below archives you have a blank piece of wood. You may want to put 'calendar' or something there.

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Hey amxfan thanks for the review.

The theme is great, not a very common one. The buttons or pages does turn into gold after you visit it, same with the pages. Honestly, I don't know how to change them : ) I'm not technical at all, I think I can do something with the twitter but as far as the changing the colors I don't know how to do it. I think I'll have to research that.

Yeah, I'm actually changing the site title on the platinum SEO pack into something keyword targeted. I'm not sure if I should be doing that though. I'll be changing the meta keywords and description too.

And if it's not too much to ask. How do I turn off the directory indexing?

Thanks so much or the input!

There are a few ways to stop directory indexing. One way is with a htaccess file. This way is probably best due to the person trying to view the contents of the folder will get a 404 error "file not found". But trying to explain how to do this in this format of communication is not the easiest thing to do, especially if you have never viewed or have very little experience with coding. Here are two simple ways to accomplish relatively the same thing.
1. Open notepad and create a blank text document. Rename the blank text document to index.html. Upload this file to every folder on your site. Do not overwrite any existing html file and do not upload it to the root of your site.
2. If your hosting company is using cpanel "you can also do this in vdeck, but I'm not sure where", log in to cpanel, under the advanced menu, click on index manager, then click on the public_html folder and check no indexing. This will make it sitewide.
Please note the first way I told you to do this is the easiest and quickest. The downfall of it is 1 - people will see a blank page, 2 - it tells the visitor that the folder does exist. The upside is your visitors can not view or save the contents of that folder. The second way I told you, the person trying to view the contents of the folder will get a forbidden error message. This will also tell the visitor that the folder does exist. The htaccess way would display the 404, file not found error, making the person unsure whether the folder exists or not. For security reasons that makes the htaccess way the best. I highly recommend reading up on this, but be careful when playing with your htaccess because you can make your entire site go down.

As far as changing the colors, I'm not sure what you are using to edit the template now. If you have a copy of DreamWeaver you can open the css file that is found in the root of your themes folder that you are using. Usually it is named style.css. This is where you would change the colors, fonts, etc. You need to also be careful when editing this file due to if it is a tableless design "and it is" your layout and positioning is also in this file. Most css files that you download with a template are pretty well commented as what does what. Before editing any of these files though, you may want to create a subdomain or a hidden folder and upload / install WordPress to that and play with those files and not the files that are live being displayed to the public. Or if you really want to get involved, install a local copy of Apache webserver with php and mysql and edit the files locally on your computer, then upload them.

I pointed a few things out above like the htaccess file and apache server knowing that it is more than likely above your technical level at this point in time. The reason I pointed them out is to make you aware of the learning curve that you will be facing, not to discourage you, but to give you other things to research and read on. It is actually not difficult to set up an apache server as there are many tutorials online that take you step by step. The best way to learn is by doing it.

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Oh my... I started researching and I couldn't understand anything. Wow! I think I have much learning to do. How I wish I took up computer programming in college.

But thanks for the input amxfan, you've been very helpful.

read.read.read.

The Home page and About page are pointing to the same location, so the navigation probably has a bug somewhere in it.

The right hand side links are wrapping badly when they scroll onto a second line

When i go to


Also I know you are trying to get revenue from your adverts on the right, but the navigation is pushed down under the adverts. The articles are hidden up somewhat because of this and I percieve it as links to items less important than the adverts.

Visually its ok, but the navigation needs checking as its very random in operation, also the top navigation is repeated on the right hand navigation, and is above your further articles. Maybe just create another top heading.

Thanks for the review guys. I did set the about page as a static home page but I don't think it's a good idea so I changed it. It's showing the latest post now. As far as the wrapping, I don't know how to go about that.

Not technical. Wow, I have lots of researching to do. : )

Thanks!