Hi, I have just finished uploading the new design for my site... I still have to tweak it, add/alter and spell check the content, and also add an rss feed into the box on the right... but, ANy comments/critisisms? http://www.kingpin-seo.co.uk/ Thanks! Mike
It's pretty clean and to the point, no clutter. The only thing I'm not totally sure about is the image of the guy on the phone - a little bit cheesy methinks, but then again I don't have any better ideas to offer... and he's on every page... Hmm I have to admit I'm a little bit stumped of what image ideas to switch for that
I would even out the empty space on the right to be the same as on the left side, and I think I agree with Lever, that dude picture doesn't quite fit there in my opinion
Yeah, just remove the stock photo, empty space isn't always bad Also, I'm nit picking here, but I think | instead of - would look better in the navigation (the separators) Other than that, awesome design!
From an SEO point of view No Meta data Missing some alt text Not W3C validate and tables bloats the code You could do with adding some analytics in there to identify the quality and source of traffic on a design point agree with the other comments lose the image Hope this helps
loose the guy...I think it works good even without a picture...Who says you always need to have a banner pic?
Looks clean.. but a little monster templatish. Yes loose the guy and follow the advice about site optimization and you should be okay. Perhaps placing the menu in another location too.
The site looks great overall, except for the man in the corner. It'll look much more professional without him. As Adwords-Advice stated earlier, you may want to update your code to comply with standards today. The browsers may read your page correctly now, but may not in the future. I'd also ditch the many spacer.gifs at the bottom. Replace them with a large div. Also, I don't seem to understand the point of the Google image at the bottom, unless Adsense came out with new ads..
Hi! thanks for the comments everyone! Re: optimising, yep, that is in the pipeline, just wanted to get the look n feel right for now, as someone else did the design, so I wanted to get it signed off as completed asap, then i will sort to compliance and meta stuff... Cheers for the advice everyone! I will tidy the code, def. drop the little man also! Mike
Since this is in HTML subforum, I guess you wanted a review of your HTML markup, or am I wrong? Long story short - it's terrible. Bloated, non standards-compliant, tabled layout, long deprecated tags... I could go on but you get the idea. You should just start from a scratch an code it in valid, semantic, accessible XHTML/CSS. From a SEO viewpoint - no h1 tag on the main page - big mistake, images with blank alt attributes (parts of the layout I know... but that should be done via CSS, you shouldn't be using img tag for that) etc... I also think the design isn't very good but that is not important. Sorry for being harsh but that's my opinion. EDIT: there is h1 tag at least, I have noticed it now but still...