The site is http://www.seo-zone.com The site is intended as a repository type place for useful articles by various writers and myself (over time), on the subjects of Internet Marketing, SEO, Design, etc. I'm open to suggestions and comments. Thanks.
needs more design/images, theres a lot of white space, possibly make the side navigation background a different colour? good job.
Very nice site with excellent content. My suggestions would be: 1. Keep the Meta Tags: <meta name="Description" content=""> <meta name="keywords" content=""> <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"> and add this one <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> (while you do not only use an external CSS file, but also embedded CSS) and delete the rest redudant meta tags. 2. Place your page <title> immediately after the <head> tag followed by your meta tags.. 3. To enhance the markup quality, accessibility and semantic of your pages, add a doctype at the top of your pages as: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> 4. Instead of defining your document language with the redudant tag <meta name="language" content="EN">, you better define your language within the <html> tag, changing to <html lang="en">. 5. Use for meaningfull images "Alt" tags (not for blind/decorative gifs though), describing them accordingly. If the images are clickable and they include alt tags with targeted keywords, can improve your SE positioning. 6. Try to make your overall font colors a bit darker, to make your pages more accessible, visible and readable. The contrast (brightness) between background and foreground is very poor. You can test that with this tool if you want: http://www.autisticcuckoo.net/tools/web/colours-contrast.php If you do all above, you can be sure that you will achieve an enhanced accessibility, which more about that, you can read my article here http://www.webnauts.net/accessibility.html, and besides you will reach a much better SE positioning. Good luck!
Worth looking into again. Every time I added an image, even a little one, I ended up taking it out again because it just didn't seem to 'fit'. Thanks for the suggestion though. I'll go try muster some creativity and find something that works. Yep, so far it's freebie content. Good content, but freebie. Gotta start somewhere. They're redundant? I thought they were still useful. Ah, no-can-do. I built it in Frontpage and it blows a gasket if you try to alter the doctype. It may be the same with the the CSS tag you mention, so I'll have to look into that with caution. Points 4. and 5. have the same limitations, with the exception that images inserted by me can be given a "Title" attribute. Dunno about alt attributes .. for some reason FP doesn't let you set them. The only way to do it is by editing the html directly and that can be an issue if your image happens to exist in an extension based component of the page. Is it? Drat! I am usually quite careful to make certain that sufficient contrast exists on a page. I admit that I did not do that in this case as I was more concerned about blending colors. I more or less assumed it would be ok. Thanks for pointing that out. I'll have to see what I can do. Thanks for the suggestions! Thank you very much.
FP has alt text on the images. Right click on the image and fill in the blank. You can change these things in FP, unless you have 2000 or older I think, then you run into problems where it just sticks it back in again!! That was frustrating when I had the older version.
I agree with Debunked. Add to all meaningless graphics a null alt tag. You can edit for that: alt="". For example so: <img border="0" src="_borders/SEO-Zone.gif" alt="" width="240" height="46"> That will enhance the accessibility of your pages.