One thing that totally kills the website for me is different layout for every page you have. You have no site title and your using h2 where you can use h1 Didnt look any deeper because the design kills it for me.
Like saintdw, design is killing me. 1) Check your site colours on your main page - the little purple is hard against to see against the white background. 2) Am I correct that you only have a half dozen pages to this site? That over half your content is ads? 3) They say you shouldn't underline text online unless it's for citation, or you're linking to something - I agree. Try bold or emphasis instead (see your car rental content). 4) "What's that, you went to one of sub pages, and you want to get back to the home page without using the back button? Sorry." I'd recommend you fix this. If I'm bouncing around your laptop/server rental pages, and want to get back home, that's a lot of back button action - too much back button. 5) I didn't look at the code, but if saintdw is correct (and I'm going to assume that he is), you should look at his heading suggestion - stylesheet the sizes as you like, but that's an important catch. ~Jk
Here is my list. Navigation is lacking so you cannot go to the Home Page or any other page. Search engines are going to not like all these dead end links. Also the visitors are not going to like it either for it looks like you are trying to make the ads look like the navigation. Might get you some clicks but more likely it will just make sure they never return. I would tone down the purple. Also I would avoid using the purple as your background with your ads. The black text is fine against the white but against the purple it is hard to read and makes the ads stand out to much. I would use a purple border and go with white as the background. One last thng the Masthead on the home page (if that is a home page?) is way to wide. I would limit its width to 780 pixels.
I can Say the heart of every site is the Index (Home) page. It creates first impression to its visitors....Your home page itself bearing zero web requirements. There is no consistence. Uniformity to be maintained throughout. Your inner pages looking like they have come from some other site. Colors, Fonts, Buttons, Link colourings, hover effects every thing should be consistence. Visitors tend to spend more time with well designed pages. Mis managed colours will crate some sort of strain to eyes and brains. There are plenty of good designed sites if browse for some time. Do not copy the web site but take the color combination of the sites as reference.
Well, thank you all for your reviews. I did rethink my concept and yes, of course you are all right about the first, index page. I changed it. I also get rid of boring violet color and "upgraded it" with a stronger blue. Different pages now have somehow similar design. About the backlink: I am surprised nobody noticed it in the footer. There is another partly hidden link - it shows when you hover it. I wonder who will find it first I did change the h2 tags to h1, I didn't do it before becouse I didn't think anybody will notice PS: I added smthing extra to lead your attention away from details
hey man i thinks you have not done some seo on your site. title description is not there and you can also improve on colour. thanks
The problem with hidden links, is that a Ctrl + A will highlight them. If you truly want a hidden link, either have the link added when a certain IP hits the page, or if a variable is passed through the URL. (Also, if you've got the Web Developer's extension for Firefox, you can just run a find of all the links on the page.) The 'learn before you rent' makes me think that we can click on this image for more information - not the case unfortunately. 3) I just noticed a horrible thing - there's no doctype for your main page. Yikes. 4) Multiple images without alt or title text. 5) Still no way to get back to the main page (no, people aren't going to scroll down for your footer - I saw the footer and dismissed it as being there for copyright only). 6) On the main page, you've got " align"left" " - whoops 7) PNG images. Does anyone have info on whether PNGs are 'okay' by now or not? I know they used to be something you'd want to stay away from, but I haven't looked at stats to determine if that's still the case. ~Jk And, I didn't notice the something extra ...
I don't really want to hide a link, I just don't want to show it on every page, all the time. I read that google doesn't like that, but since it is a link to a dead end, I guess it is not going to be a big no-no as far as google is concerned. 2. thanks for the tip, I will see in time what can I link to the picture 3. done - thanks 4. done, alt tag added to images (except for spacer image) (I just now found out what the title tag does in firefox ) 5. yeah, I don't know where to put the link to homepage, but I will figure it out... 6. The typo was actually on every page of the site - thanks for reminding me. 7. let me know if png is not ok. You didn't notice the extra friendly smile on the front page? I don't believe it.
Sure, I noticed her ... I mean the smile. I was thinking you meant something on every page Actually, for spacers I usually either put a blank alt tag, or a space (  - sure, it's a tiny little image, but it satisfies validation (and you're not supposed to be using spacers anyways ). PNG - looks fine, at least according to http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngstatus.html#browsers Home page link - how about at the top of the page? Most sites have a consistent header, which both brands the site and makes it easy for the user to get back home.
I added alt tag to all spacer images, I just hope I didn't overdone it to duplicate the alt tag png is good - I like it I added the homepage link and also till now "hidden" link "Link to THIS page" - What do you think?
I think I know why you sent me, and how you implementated, that PM question/answer Good idea. Head over to http://rentals.euromaterials.com/computer_rentals.htm and hit the Link to THIS page link. At least on my end, I'm seeing the car rentals banner image, but the link looks correct. Ditto for laptop. Intentional? Oh, and you probably got a AdSense click from me - I mistook the ad for navigation ... The home page blends in with the background, which may or may not be what you want ...
Yes you are right I still have to change the button image and yes, I want "homepage" link to blend with background. And well, thanks for the click
I didnt read the reviews but it does look like a made for adsense site and I would suggest more content
I am new to this, so "standard site" is quite a compliment for me Thanks What I wonder is, will it pay?
that is the point, nobody reads the content, people just check the bald and underlined text and click on links, so why should I have more content
I ran the html validator and was terrified... Well I should probablly start with the right doctype tag, but which one should I use? html or xhtml? Which version?
more content = more possible search terms, better rankings. As for people reading on the web try this: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9710a.html For something 9 years old its pretty damn good.
Post #8 of this thread, point 3 XHTML 1.0 would require some additional work on your part, but I'd say it would be worth it. HTML 4.0 is pretty standard, but would still require some work. Just run it through the validation service a couple of times, and see what makes the most sense for you. I'd be more than happy to work through anything you find, as I'm sure almost everyone else would too.