Hi Feels great to be part of this esteemed team and thanks in advance to its distinguished and committed members! I would like to get your views and ideas for my website and suggestions for improving page rank. Kind Regards -Rutuja
When I review a website I start with technical quality because if the code is junk the site is going to bomb at some point and is going to quickly be impossible to maintain. On a technical level the site is a load of crap. When the HTML validator throws 83 errors and the page does not even have a doctype it is clear that it was written by someone without the technical skills required to build a site. If you wrote the code then you need to invest the time to learn the basics before you try again, or hire a professional to do the work. If you paid someone to produce that trash then you were dealing with a scam artist. If you think what you have there is anything approaching even mediocre standards then you should probably be doing something non-web related because you lack the critical objectivity to evaluate technical products.
@COBOLdinosaur - you made me look! You're probably going to hear a complete feedback from guys like @deathshadow too but we'll start with colour contrast. I'm no designer but I do know that this is impossible to read: The menu jumps when you mouse over it, that was ok in 2000 but not now but the biggest problem I had was not actually knowing what your site does. I can see that I can order things and see my order history but I have no idea what I'm buying. There should be a space where you explain, succinctly, what you do. There's nowhere that says it focusses on the Indian stockmarket, no place to sign up for the game or info on how it's played.
I'm seeing a completely broken layout here -- I suspect that's caused by mixing em metric fonts with some form of pixel positioning. If it's supposed to look like this, it's pretty well shtupped. Everything just feels slapped in the page willy-nilly with no rhyme nor reason -- much like @sarahk I'm having trouble figuring out what the point of the site even is. I'm seeing a lot of goofy scripted animations, but nothing that explains what anything on the page is/is for. Under the hood it's the typical train wreck of "I cans haz intarnets?" that has become so common the past couple years. No doctype, pointless redundant meta nothing gives a flying purple fish about, nasty, NASTY case of non-semantic markup with presentational classes, static style in the markup, and a complete ignorance of logical document structure. This bloat is further compounded by nonsensical use of the ALLEGEDLY structural HTML 5 tags (in what for all intents and purposes seems to be a HTML 3 document), and hordes of endless pointless "classes for nothing"... In the traditional "If you don't know what's wrong with this..." <section class="banner"> <div style="width: 100%;height: inherit;"> <div class="bannerAdd"></div> <div class="bannerMid"> <div class="indexIcon"> <div class="indexDiv"> <div class="index indexLeft"> <div class="indexCtry"><img alt="" class="imgFlag" src="images/flag/dollar.png"></div> <div class="indexSym">USD/INR</div> <div class="indexCur floatLeft"> <div class="IndexCurt floatRight" id="usdinrCurt"></div> <div class="IndexChng floatRight" id="usdinrChng"></div> </div> </div> Code (markup): "... you probably shouldn't be making websites" kind of away. ... and that's BEFORE we talk about the ridiculous page size (1.7 megabytes) and massive file count (72 files) making it agonizingly slow to load. Really bad since there's only 4k of plaintext and nothing I'd even consider to be a content image on the page; basically you've got megabytes of code and six dozen files doing the job of 144k or less in maybe 8 files. It's a laundry list of how not to make a website, I have no idea what it's even supposed to be about/for, and as I have told a lot of people the past few years, I'd take it 'round back o' the woodshed and take a shotgun to its head. Toss it in the bin and start over, there is nothing of value I'd try to salvage from that.