Hello. I just updated my web site and would appreciate a critique. Tell me what you think. Your comments and suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Melanie
The site content and layout are good. You have a PageRank that many would like to have (including me). My thoughts: I am not a fan of that particular font. I prefer Verdana. The order today image in the upper left looks out of place. But hey, just my thoughts. I would give it a 7.5 out of 10. Don't worry though, all my own sites are a 6 or less
Nice site. I agree with NewComputer about the font thing. I also would recommend making important sentences in Bold, and a different color font! You have already bolded some words. But i think you should make whole sentences bold so that they stand out. The whole page is written in the same font, same color. visitors can drive away because of this.
Hi Melanie: You have an impressive page rank. This is one type of website where a great deal of content is important to the viewer. However, the size of the font is a bit small and would be a strain for older readers. Other than that - a very good website. Cordially,
Hi everyone. Sorry, I didn't respond to your comments sooner. I've been sick and feeling horrible. Tonight, I'm feeling a little bit better and couldn't stand to stay in bed any longer. So, I turned on the old pc. Well, I'll try some different fonts offline and see how it looks. I agree the font isn't too attractive. I do not think it would be a good idea to make a whole sentence bold or a different color. I'm going for a conservative / historical look. I am happy that the "order today" got your attention. I was hoping that would. I wanted it to stand out on purpose. And, the color red has been shown to get people to take action. So, I'm going to give it a try for awhile. Any SEO comments? My PR may be high but my SERPS could be much better. I added more links for a certain "main keyword" and my ranking for it just got lower and lower. From the top ten to not even in the top 60. Any coding suggestions? I'm very new to using CSS and DIVs. It looks like a mess to me. And, how's the load time? Does it take too long? I have a cable connection, but I'm interested in the load time for a dialup. I ran a tool on it and it came up with 26 seconds for a 56K. That seems kind of long to me? What do you think? Whoo, that wore me out. I'm going to crawl back to bed. I hope the above made some sense. Thank you. Mel
I am unable to reach the site at this time, it appears to be down. A PR of 7 is very good though, congratulations on that! To improve in the SERPS, you should look into getting the anchor text in (some of) your incoming links to match your targeted keyword(s). Geir
Hmm. Perhaps it was because I was working on it at that time. I didn't realize that when I'm working on the site it goes down.
In my opinion, there is too much non-linked text on your home page. But then again, perhaps that's why you have a PR7 !
pretty well done site. Only comment will be that theres lot of text in the page for a first page ... maybe you could push the whole sources block into a different page ... just a suggestion ... and the font can be improved ...
very good site, i like the layout & colors. i enjoy the times font cause it matches the ancestry theme, maybe try the font georgia to see if you like it better. A+ -Dan
Thanks everyone for your feedback. The new font looks kind of big to me, but people seem to think it's better.