My First Site Please review

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  1. #1
    Its a work in progress please let me know what you think. Remember I am new so any and all advice is defiantly appreciated. Deals4all.info
     
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  2. tihomir_wwf

    tihomir_wwf Active Member

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    #2
    nice design, I like it :)

    Few suggestions:

    1) the footer - add some text there ex. copyright or some links

    2) The picture in the header (Make More Money in 2009),
    it looks little strange, maybe it should be change

    Good Luck
     
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  3. ToKcu4eH

    ToKcu4eH Banned

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    #3
    Great design,but make footer.
     
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  4. cheapez

    cheapez Active Member

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    #4
    Your pages look like they are created in 1999 and haven't changed since then. You use Dreamweaver you created your pages?

    Don't underline the titles of articles/posts, they look like hyperlinks.

    Add a captcha to your email form (contact us page). You don't want bots to use this form and send you junk emails. Example of a captcha below:
    [​IMG]

    You should add "copyright yoursite.com" in your footer.

    You did a good job.
     
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    BuxP Notable Member

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    #5
    Footer needed as suggested above. The design is nice, maybe not too original/modern, but simple (positive way, as in userfriendly and attractive).. It's still a bit empty, but I guess your working on the content

    Cheers
     
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  6. AffiliatePal

    AffiliatePal Peon

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    Here's another tip.
    Try to mask the clickbank links so that visitors won't know your affiliate ID, or even suspect that it's an affiliate link.
     
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  7. Hostingnow21

    Hostingnow21 Peon

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    #7

    How would I do that?
     
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  8. Hostingnow21

    Hostingnow21 Peon

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    #8
    I really want to thanks everyone who has taken the time to give me advice. All input is Greatly appreciated. I will start working on making some of these changes. Please, fell free to add more comments and trust me I like the honesty, its the only way to make my site better.
     
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  9. AffiliatePal

    AffiliatePal Peon

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  10. river

    river Active Member

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    I would add the Meta information to the code. Keywords, etc.
     
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  11. CJnQA

    CJnQA Peon

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    #11
    I like the alteration to what was once a canned header. It's different enough to be acceptable.

    Good colors and lots of whitespace, which is very necessary in a business blog. Good job. I would only add some kind of sidebar with links AND Adsense. Nothing wrong with having Adsense, even tho you've got your own products and links.

    Is this site a blog or are you only using static pages? Nothing at all wrong with that, I'm just curious. Is it going to be regularly updated? If so, I would add an RSS image and link in the upper right hand corner.

    Masking Clickbank (and other) URL's is easy. The easiest thing to do would be to take the URL to http://tinyurl.com It's a free online tool to recreate your link to make long links shorter and affiliate links cloaked.

    OH! And... I am in accord with everyone else. You need a footer with copyright and maybe contact links, etc.

    Nice job, overall.
    ~cj
     
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  12. Hostingnow21

    Hostingnow21 Peon

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    Ok I made some of the changes suggested so far. I will work on the tinyurl thing latter today. Thanks again all this is a big help for me.
     
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  13. Hostingnow21

    Hostingnow21 Peon

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    Where do I find one of those so I can add it. To my contact page.
     
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  14. SteveTaylor

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    #14
    your site looks very nice with good overall color scheme. However the web hosting banner completely sticks out and makes the site look "not as nice". I would put the banner at the bottom or at the very least try to have the color blend in with your sites color scheme.
     
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  15. CJnQA

    CJnQA Peon

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    Hmmm... not crazy about the counter at the bottom. For one thing, it's SO last century! LOL! And, if you insist on having it, I would make it much smaller. As large as it is now, you are asking for people to notice it, and savvy surfers these days see that as very amateurish.

    I see you included a sidebar! Cool. However, for those of us still surfing with a 13 inch monitor, the wide Adsense videos don't fit. I'd go for a narrow sidebar.
    But that's my taste. If you like it, stick with it. Not everyone is still using the narrow monitor.

    ~cj

    Oh, and about the captcha screen cheapez is talking about...
    How was your contacts page created? It should have a captcha feature to it that you can activate. If not, you're either going to have to use a completely different contact form or find an add-on captcha code.
     
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    xx12 Banned

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    #16
    wonderful colors your site very nice and unique design?
     
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  17. kingofsanda

    kingofsanda Peon

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    The site isn't bad however, aside from what has already been stated I think you
    should remove the hit counter this makes the site look a bit unprofessional.
     
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  18. The Peoples SEO

    The Peoples SEO Well-Known Member

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    #18
    Not bad for a first site, but you could do away with the hit counter and maybe hire one of these writer's here on DP to write you some content for your page's.
     
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    Nice design and site, but one thing that caught my attention was the Youtube videos. You could have embedded relevant videos such as making money online to encourage clients.
     
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    In terms of seo, try to make use of the "keywords" and "description" tag. Both are missing when I checked your source code.
     
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