i am currently developing this site about yokohama city deadhippo.com please tell me how i can improve it with the following in mind 1 am currently working on a new fatter nav bar that will contain a deadhippo logo and space for an advertising banner 2 am changing the content of the nav bar, making different categories to reflect the sites purpose 3 removing the large deadhippo.com a site about Yokohama and more.. logo 4 adding search page and maybe a search function on first page 5 am planning to make the forum uniform with the site including topNav 6 will be converting photo albums to deadhippo.com style like this example 7 am changing logo to thanks in advance for any comments...ill add to the reputation of any posts i feel are fair comments
the photo is of a strange metal piece of art beside yokohamas most famous landmark..think im gonna replace it though as only prople in yokohama know what it is and even some of them dont know until i tell them
I like the concept. Here are a few ideas: Putting your keyword/phrase first in the page "Title". Using a robots.txt file to direct spiders instead of a Meta Tag. Using Upper/Lower case on your headings. Getting your code to validate if you're going to use the W3C icon.
well the lower case headings were a design choice but you are the second person to say that so i might change them i dont know what a robots.txt file is...not this i assume what do you mean by ptting the keyword/phrase in the page "Title" the page didnt validate because of my search bar test..if you come across another instance please tell me thanks for the feedback....its very helpful and appreciated
A "robots.txt" file allows you to provide directions to robots/spiders from one "file" instead of each "page". Here's a referrence for robots.txt Your current home page "Title" is: (deadhippo.com - Yokohama Living). If "Yokohama Living" is your key phrase then you could reverse your current page title to: (Yokohama Living - deadhippo.com). IMO, you will want to make this change to "all" of your pages.
i understand what youre telling me to do but not why? whats the benefit of having the keyword before the site name
i could understand that much from you post...but i think that doesnt answer my question which was - whats the benefit of having the keyword before the site name?
IMO, word "order" is about "emphasis." By placing the important keywords at the start of the page "Title" you "emphasize" those keywords instead of your site/company name.
thanks man, thats a good point... ithought there might have seem something else of importance but ill definitely put in my to do list which is getting longer and longer sorry you had to guide me like a child
Also Search engines (I am told) give higher priority to word at the beginning of the sentences., also top of page and bottom of page. I like your website... to make it easier to navigate can you make the large titles into anchors... for example make photo albums to point like 'Click here to see photo albums.'
thanks for the info, ill try to keep that in mind about the photo albums...im changing that section and navigation at the moment and when its done ill post again
well, ive finally finished the header and new nav, im going to use a better quality skyline below, back to photoshop any comments on the changes or on anything for that matter click here to see
thats a good point and ill have to think about the solution i may just alter the backround image a little thanks for the input
i think it is clean-looking. just enough texts.. but be aware of too many empty spaces..when you changed your background (which i think will be a good move to let your bottom links more visible). good luck.