hi, I have just made this site Texas State Bird. I still have to add more content into it. I will really appreciate if you can comment on Font size of content and adsense placement. Any suggestions to make it look better will be great. Also can someone tell me what kind of ads its showing(bird related or not)? Thanks
It would've be great i can see some bird photo on your web. Nice color match, green for leaf, sky, impression of bird place.
Thanks, actually I have couple of photos which I was going to put but I am not sure where shud I paste it and how big it shud be ?
Opinion1 :you can cut a photo of a bird out, and put on the far bottom right, make it permenant or so, even they scroll up and down the bird stay still. Opinion2 : Background dimmed photo of a bird.
The text is very informative, and quite good. Pictures to break it up would be good though. Good job on it tho!
definately should be a picture of the state bird on there. text size is fine. do you plan to add more pages?
I think your headings "Texas State Bird" and "Killing a Mockingbird" need to stand out more. Maybe a darker green or a shade of blue that is in your top header. The way the headings are now, my eyes skip right over them.
why have XHTML 1.1 STRICT in the footer? does anyone really care...you would be better having a line of adsense links (if you made the page wide enough) James.
Will try to put adsense links ..I hope I don't run out of publishers as this is not the kind of topic, too many people will be putting money on. will also edit the template
You may wish to add a small bird image next to each of the AdSense ads to increase CTR and add some color to your website.
One of the cleaner layouts I have seen. I like that a lot. On my monitor it's truly skinny though at 683px. You might play with 774px to see if it still does what you want. Also at the bottom you have: XHTML 1.1 STRICT | CSS 2 | LAYOUT © YAMAZAKI To my mind that is pointless and confusing without making those links. To be consistent with the clean look they should probably go. Anyway, overall it's a great looking site.
I guess you got the bird up now. Like the site, but the one thing my wife (a writer) hates is the overuse of bold. Your first paragraph ends with almost an entire sentence in bold. If you really want to emphasize the sentence why now create it's own heading. I would basically cut all that reading down in half, and make it more for the speed surfer. Heading, quick blurb, link to more content if they want. Just an idea. Also, it might be nice to have in a small (in bold ) title of the bird underneath the picture of the bird similar to a encyclopedia or magazine.
I think you should switch the google ads with the bird. Making the google ads ABOVE the fold. Also maybe put a google ad underneath the picture, like a half banner.
OK, I will see if I can remove that copyright sign as it was a complete open source template @camp185 - good suggestions. Will implement all of them @pzn - so u meant, I put the google 250x250 block ad at the top ? or may be I can put a button ad below the image ?
Why don't you put the bird next to the title of the website? That would make it look real good. Adsense placement is okay and I really feel 'Verdana 10' would make your site look better. Thanks! -The Big K-