Any suggestions? Review please

Hi there,

I would really appreciate your help & suggestions for my website, www.sabreakaway.co.za

Thanks!

 

many points to correct
just index-page to begin
lets start basics to rescue spiders/bots
firefox browser with webdevel toolbar helps to avoid mistakes of such nature.

DTD definition - line 1 missing
and
No Character Encoding Found! - hence charset definition in metatags missing

line 6
B&B

& illegal here !
use B&B

your tags ..
span tag
you have 4 span tags but only 2 span container tags
if ONE paired tag lacks its own container tag - then usually all following tag-validation is messed up and thus impossible

validation of code helps as unequal or open tags lead to confusion of bots as well as incorrect display of pages by some browsers ...

line 72
you messed up sequence of container tags
</b></big></span>

should be
</big></b></span>

other similar errors may exist as well

line 80
Copyright & Disclaimer
should be
Copyright &amp; Disclaimer

 

Thanks! I will revise the metatags with your suggestions. What do you think of the look & feel of the rest of the pages?

Don't enter the competition, click on one of the provinces and click on a guesthouse. I'd like to get your feedback on that.

Much appreciated!!!

 

the header colors ... change the colors, make some contrast and design a logo.

 

At first glance it looks nice to me
- the logo ...
unless you rent, hunt, ride, breed or lease zebras .. as part of your business - may be something like nature or so as logo topic or a hut or house or ??

I may have a look in a few days when all tags are valid for a full review

when using firefox as a browser then you may find lots of useful tools to validate all necessary parts - links, CSS, HTML, .... to spoil all bots. keep in mind that za bots may be far less forgiving than Googlebot - hence even more need for as perfect SEO as possible and cleanest possible code.

 

I suggest you try to incorporate the blue or red text color you've in the body in the header to accent it better.

G'luck.

 

Very nice web site. I would call attractive.
But testing your code on your index page, I found 29 markup errors which must be fixed.
This free software can definetely help you with all that: http://www.htmlvalidator.com/lite/

When you are done with this, post again, so I can have another further look for SEO, and maybe accessibility too?

 

The site is nice looking, but when I recieve data from your site, it's transferring at slow speeds, around 1.2K/sec. It took awhile for that picture on the front page to show.