just lookin for some comments on my new portfolio web site. not much SEO on this site, just looking for opinions. www.arestia.com -dan
Okay, just a few points that I see.... Good Points Definitely original content. After that first page loaded I was rather impressed by the image. Hand coded - You don't see that much anymore. Not so good I am not too keen on times new roman font as it is hard to read Your images on the first page take up almost 60,000 kb Do you know how long that would take to download on an AOL proxy server? 3kb/sec I am not too keen on the IE image toolbar that pops up when you have an all image website..... so here... try this <meta content="no" http-equiv="imagetoolbar"> That will get rid of the IE image toolbar. I presume that you use CSS on all of your pages.... why not put them into a CSS file mycss.css and link them into each page such as <LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="../mycss.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA=screen> <LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="../mycss.css" TYPE="text/css" MEDIA=print> I am also not one for very small font. Now, I am looking at the screen at an 800x600 and do not have the greatest eyes in the world... if that is small to me imagine someone looking at the page on a 1280x1024. http://www.arestia.com/?a=about http://www.arestia.com/?a=services I believe your bullets on those particular pages need to be marked as # ; [all together] (that is coming from memory so don't quote me on whether that is the bullet or not) They are showing up as ?'s unless that is what you wanted? Add the following into your header <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> OR <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> If you use the UTF-8 the following will work for bullets • Well, that is my 2¢ Hope it helps Wayne World Famous Gift Baskets
Being a train fan I like the look. I completely agree with the comments by ProductivePC regarding CSS, character size and load time. (always something to consider) As you stated "not much SEO on this site". IMHO it would be important to review many of the quality comments on these forums to improve the SEO of the site to get it visited. That is my 2¢
Love the look but suggest you drop the splash page. I have not had good luck using one. My making height of image smaller you could put some indexable content on firt page which would be more searchengine friendly. Also suggest compressing image if possible. Load time is excessive. I am running a computer with 1924 x 728 resolutionn and have no trouble reading font and I need new glasses so font size is not a problem for me. Best of luck, Shannon
Links and text are too small. Text Links also do better on search engines and take up ALOT less bandwidth. The site loaded pretty slowly. The initial tiltle screen is not really needed. It should go straight to services or something similar. Overall, it is very good. Change those few things and it could be near perfect.
Personally I like the look of it a lot. The color scheme is laid back and subtle and I've always been a fan of the top banner/middle content/bottom banner layout. I think the content is pretty good, nice and 'arty' and restrained for a publishing company. Personally I like things to be more up front and in your face but thats why I'm an engineer and not an artistic type. However, 1. It wasn't immediately obvious to me from the splash page what it was that you did. So why have a splash page? 2. Looking at the HTML of your pages I would remove all the CSS stuff in the <head> to an external file. I would also remove the javascript image stuff to external files too. Simlarly remove the body tags from the HTML to CSS. 3. Think about using CSS to position your graphics rather than a table. It makes your code smaller and more search engine friendly. 4. The splash screen took 30+ seconds to load on our fast connection. 5. I'd change the font from times new roman, always looks fuzzy to me. Also I'd look at increasing the contrast between the normal font and the back ground color. I had some trouble making out some of the letters. 6. I'd say the link text in the banners it a tad too small, and the text on the print media pages if definitely too small. Cheers, Mark
ya. i reviewed your site. nice work. but it seems you have less inbound links. concentrate on more links for better search results.
As far as i have seen your site, basic design you used, not much content on home page and less IB links.
I like the simple design of your site, but I'll pretty much suggest you to drop down the splash page.
nice site!!! All i can say is maybe it would be nicer if we can see your Case Studies in Image format.. to see them all on one page ? Very nice site!!
It is looking a simple website with nominal information, Need to improve the web template size to set to the browser.