I think the best thing about the site is it is easy enough to use and doesn't require the user to figure out what is going on. Having said that I think it is too simple and could do with some jazzing up possibly using CSS to style the headings and bullets (maybe use small images of veg instead of black bullets) I would also try and use CSS instead of tables for laying out your information (See here for why http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/). Basically will reduce file size and HTML code to content ratio, which is good for search engines as they see the stuff they want like keywords and content rather than loads of <tr> & <td> tags. I do like the left navigation and the header, they way they are lined up, looks nice. Your logo looks good too so definitely keep that I've also noticed something terrible though mate...check your HTML and you will see you have no closing </BODY> or </HTML> tag on the homepage. Also your other pages are not formed correctly. e.g. </table> </body> </html><title>Melody's Vegan Noodle Kugel</title> Code (markup): You will definitely need to sort this one out...if you are using PHP to "include" your header make sure the file that you include doesn't contain <HTML><HEAD> etc, just the code to produce your header is all that's needed, if you are having problems let me know
I like the logo very much. The banner is too large (or too empty ?) for my liking. There are some blank places (top right and bottom left). contents at the top or left would be nice...
I like it! I like all the white space on the home page... how come no google adwords? Is the site just for fun or what? A
I like the header and the overall cleanliness of the site. Nice Adsense placement as well. Personally I would change the link colors to match the header more.
I like the site. The header looks good to me. I like the lack of clutter. Although also I agree with the comment above about "jazz up" the look of the text. Some of the pictures at the bottom of pages look a little, uh, don't know the term... maybe over sharpened? Like the pixels look a little snow covered or something. A small point - maybe others even would not agree with me. I might prefer a breacrumb navigation rather than just "Go to Free Veg Recipes Home" e.g. On the "Never had before salad" page. I would rather like to see: Home - Salads - Never had before So in case I don't like the salad I picked by name, I would rather click 1 link back to a salad search page (or salad index or whatever). Again, all small points, I like the site.
That left adsense blended with pics is very well executed. Great job! I agree that you need to spice up the page with css
The font is not good, add a csss style or something similar! The logo is nice but doesn't have nice quality of the picture! And you should do a bigger slogan!
as far as look is concerned, Blue big Fonts look kind of out of place. I guess you want this big fonts to get attention for serach engine
<TITLE>The Free Low Fat Vegetarian Recipe Archive</TITLE> <META NAME="TITLE" CONTENT="The Free Low Fat Vegetarian Archive"> I'd remove 'The' and 'Archive'. Use keywords in an alt tag for http://www.freevegrecipes.com/images/veg1.jpg as well as an href to http://www.freevegrecipes.com
I like the recipe pages. The top right rectangle (FREE VEG RECIPES Free Low Fat Vegetarian Recipe Archive) could probably use fancier and larger text to fill up the space. Maybe you could use a graphic here and use the alt text for the current text you have. The Adsense with pics on the main page is nicely integrated
Nice Layout. Great Search Engine. Just a note. I couldn't find a 'back' button to go back to the sub category search. Had to press 'back' from my browser. Keep up the good work!
The banner looks nice. However, you might need to consider to put some other colour for all the links (a:hover), if you are using CSS.