MSUK1 Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 www.missfrankuk.com www.matt-cardle.co.uk www.mattsolomon.co.uk [comment on intial layout site not complete] thanks! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colton.Wagner Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 It is a very nice website design however there was a long loading time. I would also change your navigation so that it pre-loads the pictures that way it does not load the rest of the page and each link individually. Otherwise it was a nice website. Thanks, Colton Wagner Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1122121 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUK1 Posted October 14, 2010 Author Share Posted October 14, 2010 thanks for your review, do you have any suggestions on preloaders as im using sharepoints one at the moment Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1122149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colton.Wagner Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 I have not ever used sharepoints I have heard about it through a grape vine however. As far as recommendations I do really use preloaders because my pictures are all formatted for best performance and quality. I don't usually have problems like that. I would worry more about your link bar images than anything. Thanks, Colton Wagner Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1122248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
plznty Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Could could enable gzip compression. Apparently you will save 80% load time. The pictures need to load faster or preload. Nice design. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1122327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUK1 Posted October 17, 2010 Author Share Posted October 17, 2010 thanks guys, gzip compression how would this work on a fully home coded site? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1123106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colton.Wagner Posted October 17, 2010 Share Posted October 17, 2010 I don't know if this will help you much but it did the trick for me. http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/weblog/web-development/css/the-definitive-css-gzip-method Thanks, Colton Wagner Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1123112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sKunKbad Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Site does look good, but why a table based layout? For the purpose of SEO alone, you would be better off using modern CSS styling. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1123683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUK1 Posted November 4, 2010 Author Share Posted November 4, 2010 how does css enable better seo over tables like whats the difference? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130301 Share on other sites More sharing options...
plznty Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 I just listened to an interview with a Google Developer and from their perspective it doesn't make a difference. However I'de advise CSS since that's where the web is going. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUK1 Posted November 4, 2010 Author Share Posted November 4, 2010 ive never really learnt how to use css to position divs, maybe i should? but i feel comfterble laying things out in tables? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
plznty Posted November 4, 2010 Share Posted November 4, 2010 Just remember content is king when it comes to SEO. Using tables rather than CSS is no problem aslong as you have content that people want to see, therefore creating more back-links to your resource. Which will gain PR + SERP's Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130365 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUK1 Posted November 4, 2010 Author Share Posted November 4, 2010 thankyou, speaking of SEO one site is performing badley despite the relevant content, backlinks, links to the site and all other factors of the site :/ Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 thankyou, speaking of SEO one site is performing badley despite the relevant content, backlinks, links to the site and all other factors of the site :/ Which one? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUK1 Posted November 5, 2010 Author Share Posted November 5, 2010 Www.matt-cardle.co.uk Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130662 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nano Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 A lot of your core content like headings and navigation are images. Possibly look at font replacement techniques like Cufon or Sifr, or use background images with your text indented negatively so it's hidden. Also a nice way to help search engines is to have a HTML site map on your site and also submit an XML version to Google via its web master tools. Then utilise social tools like Twitter and Facebook to direct external traffic to the site and it should be a lot better. For me though, I would try to review the heavy use of images, good optimised pages always rank well Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUK1 Posted November 5, 2010 Author Share Posted November 5, 2010 I thought that so with the images I made sure used "alt" text and named the images using HTML so that google picks up that relevant information still I submitted a sitemap and it indexed all pages, it's really weird, social networks Facebook I have 200000 people looking at this link and twitter has just starte up Yahoo it's ranked 1 and has lots of inlinks Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 My guess is that it's down to the HTML. Semantic, valid mark-up can play a big part in SEO these days; it's what's used by the search engines to interpret what an element is on the page. For example the links on the right side of the menu (audition, videos, etc.), are written using a table: <table style="width: 100%"> <tr> <td style="width: 363px" class="copyright2"><a class="copyright" title="Matt Cardle Audition 1" href="Audition1/">Audition</a> <img src="images/arrow.png" width="10" height="10" /></td> <td class="copyright2"><a class="copyright" title="Matt Cardle Videos" href="Videos/">Videos</a> <img src="images/arrow.png" width="10" height="10" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="copyright2" style="width: 363px"><a class="copyright" title="Matt Cardle Bootcamp" href="Bootcamp/">Bootcamp</a> <img src="images/arrow.png" width="10" height="10" /></td> <td class="copyright2"><a class="copyright" title="Matt Cardle Live Shows" href="Live-Shows/">Live Shows</a> <img src="images/arrow.png" width="10" height="10" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="copyright2" style="width: 363px"><a class="copyright" title="Matt Cardle Guestbook" href="Guestbook/">Guestbook</a> <img src="images/arrow.png" width="10" height="10" /></td> <td class="copyright2"><a class="copyright" href="Legal/">Privacy Policy</a> <img src="images/arrow.png" width="10" height="10" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="copyright2" style="width: 363px"><a class="copyright" title="Matt Cardle Judges Houses" href="Judges-Houses/">Judges Houses</a> <img src="images/arrow.png" width="10" height="10" /></td> <td class="copyright2"><a class="copyright" href="Legal/">Terms and C's</a> <img src="images/arrow.png" width="10" height="10" /></td> </tr> </table> I've remove a lot of the tabbed white space to make it more readable, but with some fairly simple CSS rules this hog of mark-up could be re-written to (note the etc. comment of course): <ul class="footer_links"> <li class="l"><a title="Matt Cardle Audition 1" href="Audition1/">Audition</a></li> <li class="r"><a title="Matt Cardle Videos" href="Videos/">Videos</a></li> <li class="l"><a title="Matt Cardle Bootcamp" href="Bootcamp/">Bootcamp</a></li> <li class="r"><a title="Matt Cardle Live Shows" href="Live-Shows/">Live Shows</a></li> <!-- etc --> </ul> That kind of rework throughout the code would increase your mark-up : content ratio considerably. From what I can see there's also a lot of empty tables, broken code, deprecated tags, etc, etc. You're also not making use of any header (<h#>) tags, which allow you to add a meaningful header to the page that'll search engines pay a lot of attention to when indexing your content. I can't see any paragraph (<p>) tags used. Links with the text 'read more', which obviously don't describe what you're linking to - 'read more about ...' is much better. There's a lot of room for improvement to be honest. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130675 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nano Posted November 5, 2010 Share Posted November 5, 2010 Adam for the win, semantic HTML rocks Separate your style from your content and use proper markup and you will increase rankings hands down. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSUK1 Posted November 5, 2010 Author Share Posted November 5, 2010 Thanks a lot guys, always used tables so I guess I turn to divs now? Can anyone hint on hownibwould create such a complex layout (bet it's not even complex) in CSS? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/215832-full-site-review/#findComment-1130750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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