I am starting a cooking and recipe site. I am in the process of creating more pages and content. Any criticism or tips would be great. www.freerecipescooking.info
I would recommend you to change the background colour of the adsense block at the top of the website, change the border and the background to white, and the text on purple, it would look nicer. There is some flash going on over there, I wouldn't use many flash elements, since they aren't very good for SEO.
yeach,, i think the design is too simple.. and it really takes time to load.. you better change to colorful layout.
You are using Free wix.com hosting that is delaying loading of your site. It will drive your visitors away
Nice looking site, it's making me hungry. Maybe change the color of adsense background, to a lighter purple. And get your amazon ads to match the articles; would give you a better click through rate.
Thanks everyone for your input. Yes I agree that it loads slowly. That is because it is a flash site. I would like to change to a diffrent site and host but I already paid for it so I am kind of stuck. I have started to change the background also so it does not look so plain. When I am done with the appearence of the site then I am going to start editing the ads looks and to match articles.
That's an interesting & engaging layout & feel you have. I really like the big, bold picture in the background: it's different & makes your site stand out in my mind! (Kind of hate to hear you're going to change it . . . hope you don't make it boring.) A few things to consider: -- Your Google ad at the very top is hard to read & doesn't POP. Consider changing the colors so there's more contrast & readability. -- None of your blurbs/tips/recipes have a TITLE. That annoys me as a reader. I want to know what I'm about to read, and whether it's something I'll like. Otherwise, I tend to ignore it. -- I have to admit, that cursive font on top of the white blurs discouraged me from reading a whole paragraph/recipe. I like how you did it conceptually, but now that I'm thinking about it, I didn't actually read them. Why??? I'm not sure, except maybe it's not good to use a fancy font when you have a lot of copy. I really like the font, but I guess for the end result, it didn't work if your goal is for me to read what you wrote. Overall, I like it! PS I actually clicked your ad in the bottom left, so I'd say that one's a WINNER!
Nice website! It kind of made me hungry In the healthy tips section... It would be better if you added more color and photos... And widen the tips in between - it kind of mashes together.