Greetings, Looking for a site review on our Honey Heatlh site. Basically, this is a test site for us to see if we are doing things correctly. We then take the correct things and move them to our other site. http://www.honey-health.com For a optimization perspective, does it look as though we are doing things correctly? Thanks.
I love the warm colors of your look and feel. The first graphic will make people drool. The text, however, will probably make people wanting information to click away. The main reason I'm saying this is the very high readablity score your first sentence, never mind the rest of the page, has. (Readablity scores are like golf scores -- lower is better.) Although there are complex readability formulas, the main thing to understand is that shorter (or fewer) is better: fewer syllables in a word, fewer words in a sentence, fewer sentences in a paragraph. I did a test on your first paragraph and got a score of 12, meaning it would be understood by someone in the last year of High School. That is, an apt student, reading hard copy, not someone tired, looking quickly for information reading a screen. I try to keep my own Web writing below a score of 7. Five is usually about right. If you want to know more about this, I've written a page for my site about it. The page is for hard copy, but if you keep in mind the advice about grade level I gave above, it will still work for you. I hope this is helpful. The page is at www.writershelper.com/readablity.html Audrey Owen Any editor can fix your work I can help you become a better writer.
Audrey> Sorry, I will correct you about the readability site: http://www.writershelper.com/readability.html Wiseone> Indeed text seems to be quite compact. Have you thought about smaller paragraphs. Ant you can use orange text elements, perhaps. Just an idea. The word "honey" has a keyword density (+4.8%) which is very good.
I'd make the google ads narrower. But overall the site looks good. I felt a little uneasy. Why does the site exist? Is it there to educate, or sell or ...? The first menu option is for google ads. Is the info just there for the ads? You could at least pretend you have a decent reason. You could do with reading a few CSS tutorials and getting alot of that stuff off the page. Sarah
There's something about the border I don't like. I think I'd make them thiner. I LOVE dashed border, but they are way to bold. Did you know that you can define the style of your border seperatly? E.g top:dashed bottom:dotted etc?
Maybe a nicer logo or color change would really gain attention to the topic....I wasn't a big fan of the colors
Greetings, Thanks everyone for the great comments... - I am a bit new to CSS. I will try to do a bit of research to see if I can improve my use. - I will test a few of the other border styles. - I know my logo is a bit slim. Actually, it is not really a logo. It is just text. - I think I will remove the adlinks at the top. These could be a turn off. The purpose of the site is pure content meant to educate. If I can get any action from the search engines, I will add a message a board and a few other features that will make the site a bit broader. - Color wise. I may experiment with a few colors. I tend to always stick with the grey background. This is supposed to be the color that has always won in readability studies. Once again, thanks and keep the suggestions coming.
Thank you, derzse! It's very bad when an editor misspells one of her own URLs. (I couldn't find a way to edit that post.) I still think the page is pretty good, though.