My first website finished

dantonkin said:

it's a great attempt for a first time build.

The nav seems to be out fo place though. It's aligned more to the left of the page. Not leve with the header image. (using firefox on a mac)

Cheers

Dan

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Hmmm. Not sure why that happened but i'm getting it too. And i'm on a PC with IE6.

I've uploaded again. Any better?

nin9abadga said:

one major thing though you have no keywords defined? you'll get indexed but under the words you want?

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I know it doesn't look like I have but I think I do. NetObjects has a section in the Options to enter the keywords and it inserts the text in the /head section automatically. I assume this does it. If it doesn't work I could always manually enter the HTML.

robjf said:

The reason for your description on google being so meaningless, is because of this . As you can see its the cache and when this was actually on your site, it was this google took for your description.

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I assume then, that when the Google bot comes back around, it should read by meta description and alter it? How often do they come around?

Thanks for all the comments everyone.

my favourite bit is "Feel free to contact us anytime day or night (except night)."

subtle humour 4tw \o/

it's all been said, but i like the pale, simplistic look, so i'm going to be biased. good use of stock imagery, clear and concise. you should be very proud - especially seeing as it's your first job...it's about 100x better than my current excuse for a site!!

You really need to learn CSS and (X)HTML. Tabular layouts are so 1999

I don't have time to go in-depth, but here are a few quick suggestions:

• Separate content from style. Content should go in your (X)HTML document, style in your CSS document(s)!
• Either ditch the non-contextual images or make them less obtrusive by setting them as backgrounds in a separate CSS file (ideally all your style information should be in one or more CSS files, ala the above point). If someone is browsing on a mobile device they don't want to be hit with a 27KB piece of eye candy, and likewise if a visually-impaired person is browsing using a screen reader they don't want to hear "Tree, Light Sky, Banner."
• Use the Phark image replacement technique on all your headers, the copyright information (if you insist on using images for such purposes, which isn't ideal in the first place) and possibly even the logo.
• Semantically, it would be better to use an unordered list for your navigation. You might want to add some sort of hover effect, or indicate which page the user is currently on in said navigation

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