Please critique my website.

On the services tab I would set it up so the icons could be clicked on to reveal a short description of the service and possibly a price for that service.

If you do list prices, make sure to add a disclaimer on your main page that prices subject to change at anytime, or somthing along those lines.

Other than that, site looks nice.

And I like the virus doodle, to each their own, but personally I'm gonna add a few when I get around to making mine. I think they make a site stand out more.
 
Thank you guys,

I went ahead and did the hot zone links and adjusted my keywords.

As for the click descriptions on the services page, what about doing the descriptions in the alt tags? Maybe a roll over? Or would clickable be the way to go?

I'm running into a wall with the 301 redirect. I cannot for the life of me get it to work. I'm using Yahoo as a host (I signed up before I knew better), and cannot find anything about making the 301 work, or even what language it needs to be in (php, asp, jsp, etc.). Very frustrating.

Thanks again fellow nibblers. :)
 
Click or rollover doesnt really matter much, I have just noticed some people have issues with rollovers because sometimes they bleedover and can be hard to read where as if you click and it opens a little window or page it seems to hold together better.



As for the 301 issue I really can't say. I have never made a web page before so I couldn't tell you...sorry. As it is when I'm ready to do mine I'm gonna try using that one site that's always being linked around here (can't remember the name off hand) that helps you build one.
 
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301 redirects are accomplished with either an .htaccess file in the main directory or a server side language such as Perl or PHP that can manipulate headers.
 
I've tried using php or jsp in the header, to no avail (aside from some nasty looking code at the top of my page), and am thinking that you might be right about the .htaccess file.

However, I am not precisely sure how to go about making one a 301 redirect. I am finding tutorials about how to make them do a general redirect for documents and pages, but nothing on the 301... Any idea on a good tutorial I can check out?
 
I just tried the create a htaccess.txt file, paste code, upload to server, rename file .htaccess method only to have my server tell me that .htaccess is a "forbidden name" and that I cannot rename it such...

As I mentioned before, I'm using Poopoo... Errrr... I mean Yahoo hosting... Any other ideas?
 
Its not horribly bad, its actually fairly decent compared to most, but I would still highly suggest investing into a professional wordpress template. You can get something decent for around $70 to $100 in most cases. You can even get it cheaper on themeforest.
 
For hosting I'd look into someone like HostGator or LithiumHosting. They've got dirt cheap shared hosting plans, and will handle WordPress/most content management systems easily.

As for the template, the first thing that strikes me on the front page is the poor flow and poor arrangement of items. I really don't know where the first place I should look is. To top it off there are so many different "borders" on the page where content containers don't line up with the rest of the page, making it more complicated visually.

Here's a picture shading in all the different edges of containers, many of them don't line up at all. I would take care to greatly simplify that.


On our website we took great care to have the fewest "edges" as possible. Everything flows down the page in 2 main containers that lines up. By all means not saying my website is the best out there (It's SEO is terrible right now), but the simpler the better visually. It bothers me right now that the More Information links aren't on the same line in the 3 content boxes.
 
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And it's not necessarily a matter of content, it's an evenness of color, icon usage and shiny (yes, that's a technical term lol).

noware092512.png


(For reference, this is not a real site. I was copying and pasting stuff while I had Photoshop up from a screenshot of your current site. lol

And if you can't tell, I didn't want to rewrite the content for the three items, so I made my own. haha)
 
nightkingdoms said:
And it's not necessarily a matter of content, it's an evenness of color, icon usage and shiny (yes, that's a technical term lol).

noware092512.png


(For reference, this is not a real site. I was copying and pasting stuff while I had Photoshop up from a screenshot of your current site. lol

And if you can't tell, I didn't want to rewrite the content for the three items, so I made my own. haha)
Click to expand...

Nice job on the mock up. I like it.
 
nightkingdoms said:
And it's not necessarily a matter of content, it's an evenness of color, icon usage and shiny (yes, that's a technical term lol).

noware092512.png


(For reference, this is not a real site. I was copying and pasting stuff while I had Photoshop up from a screenshot of your current site. lol

And if you can't tell, I didn't want to rewrite the content for the three items, so I made my own. haha)
Click to expand...

I am really liking that mock up, would you mind if I *cough* "borrowed" that lay-out?

As for the 301, what I'm trying to accomplish is getting the http://nowarecomprepair.com to redirect to http://www.nowarecomprepair.com, from what I've read search engines will think that I have two sites (one with the www one without), so I'm trying to clear that up.
 
I don't mind. As far as the 301, search engines will know it's a redirect. They'll also know if the content is exactly the same if you try to go that route as well.

A cheap and dirty way of a redirect is having a PHP file named index.php in the main directory with this in it:

<?php header("Location:url"); ?>

Where url is where you want it to go and it needs to have the http:// if it's going off-site.
 
I like the idea about clicking on a icon in the services page to see what your prices are.
Also Mesa College recently changed their name-might want to fix that.
 
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