kione
Joined: Jan 01, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Jan-01 18:27
Name of Site/Business: AngeDevil Development Company
Site's Main Purpose: Fun/Leisure
Please Review the following:
Does the home page sufficiently convince people to go further into the site?
Does/can the site achieve its main purpose?
Navigation. Is it clear and easy to understand?
Typos and grammar
Images failing to load
Is the Contact, Privacy and Legal information adequate in relation to main purpose of site?
Search engine marketing. Can the pages be reasonably well indexed by search engines?
Additional Comments/Notes
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dudibob
Joined: Oct 13, 2005
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Posted: 2006-Jan-04 10:53
Looks pretty good, not too keen on the big white box mind. Maybe 'funk' up the nav buttons at the top 
Apart from that, cool
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beth_lk
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Joined: Jun 23, 2004
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Posted: 2006-Jan-05 04:48
I don't understand the purpose/intent of the site.
your site says "Welcome to the AngeDevil Development Company website!!' So I expected it to be a web development type site - not a forum.
As for search engines - you have no DOC TITLE, no H tags & no alt tags.
[ Message was edited by: beth_lk 01/04/2006 09:01 pm ]
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kione
Joined: Jan 01, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Jan-07 16:33
Which means?
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dudibob
Joined: Oct 13, 2005
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Posted: 2006-Jan-07 17:54
means if you have these, you go higher in the Search Engines
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kione
Joined: Jan 01, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Jan-07 18:08
How do I do that?
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beth_lk
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Joined: Jun 23, 2004
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Posted: 2006-Jan-08 03:41
Kione that is a HUGE question -
I once asked that same question - thinking "OK no biggie - I will just learn how to do that" I even asked someone to post it for me so I could copy & paste it into my pages lol - it is not quite like that
I would start by studying these forums and search them for terms such as meta tags,DOC TITLE, Alt Tags, Heading Tags, SEO, and such.
Learning how to get your site ready for the search engines is not a recipe per say - it is a on going learning experience.
However you CAN learn it - many people give up as it does take time.
Maybe someone else here knows a quicker way for you to learn it - but I don't - the way I learned it was to glue myself to these boards and study for hours a night on end and to ask a LOT of questions 
People who "know" about all this are still learning it again all the time as the SE's change their specifics.
I now am a SEO geek - as I love studying it
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www_cooleon_us
Joined: Jan 23, 2006
# Posts: 44
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Posted: 2006-Jan-24 06:21
Does the home page sufficiently convince people to go further into the site?
Nope, I think the design is bad, design's too edgy and SHARP.
Does/can the site achieve its main purpose?
Not yet, I can't seem to find a purpose in ur site yet. It's still under construction...
Navigation. Is it clear and easy to understand?
Yes, ur homepage basically explains the whole thing, which is different, but not entirely plausible. If ppl have to read it to know what they r doing, then it's not user-frinedly at all.
Please rate mine:
[link]
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dudibob
Joined: Oct 13, 2005
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Posted: 2006-Jan-24 09:23
Hey cooleon, start a new thread for your site
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www_cooleon_us
Joined: Jan 23, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Jan-24 16:01
[link]
is the link to my thread.
Isn't there a
"Please rate mine:
[link] "
at the end of my post?
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newtvail
Joined: Jan 07, 2006
# Posts: 303
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Posted: 2006-Jan-25 00:14
As noted above, you do have some tweaking of the site code to help your rankings.
It would also help both for readers and search engines if there were some explanation on the home page of just what the site is about.
The combination of the HTML stuff for title & description and then some people-read stuff on the page that went along with them would do wonders for getting the site searched. Also probably help out getting folks to look further than just the home page.
The use of white letters on black and the fire red is interesting. Good or bad will depend on what age & interest groups you want. Some will hate it and leave quickly; some will love it and look further. You just gotta make real sure that the readers you want are the ones likely to love the page design.
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kione
Joined: Jan 01, 2006
# Posts: 9
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Posted: 2006-Apr-10 21:14
The site has a whole new set up, along with new hosting, and new forums!
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newtvail
Joined: Jan 07, 2006
# Posts: 303
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Posted: 2006-Apr-10 22:07
Hi kione and welcome back.
Good on ya for getting the W3 DOCTPYE statement added. Now use the W3 validator to locate code errors and after they are fixed, you will have some nice, clean pages.
Each of your pages needs a different (and short but descriptive) title rather than reusing the same one that is basically the site URL. Each page also needs a meta description that matches the page content.
The dark greens on black gives a very interesting effect but I have to wonder how readable it will be.
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kione
Joined: Jan 01, 2006
# Posts: 9
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Posted: 2006-Apr-10 22:29
The Doc thing was added by Dreamweaver, I think, so I'm not sure how to use it.
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newtvail
Joined: Jan 07, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Apr-11 23:28
If you Google for w3 validator you will find a site that allows putting in a URL and having their app list all the code errors it finds. Given the line number and specific problem, the code can be corrected and usually pretty easily.
The W3 DOCTYPE statement tells the validator what set of standards to use and is more likely to give an accurate listing of errors than if there isn't such a declaration and the validator uses standards designed for a different level of code.
It is free and quick so well worth doing.
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kione
Joined: Jan 01, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Apr-12 18:35
I'll try that once I get my new template up.
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kione
Joined: Jan 01, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Apr-17 00:56
New design is up, and the site is looking MUCH better.
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newtvail
Joined: Jan 07, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Apr-19 23:52
kione - it is indeed looking much better. The new color scheme fits nicely with your domain name.
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kione
Joined: Jan 01, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Apr-23 15:32
Anyone else? I need C&C to make it better!
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natkits
Joined: Apr 30, 2006
# Posts: 4
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Posted: 2006-Apr-30 16:02
Well, its a nice clean homepage although possibly slightly underused. It comes across very empty and non descript.
You dont seem to have a link back to homepage on every other page, or did i just not see it? Either way, every page should link back to home.
Your page Titles are also not descriptive enough. Use a brief and concise description of whats actually going on on that page rather than just 'index' or 'forum' etc.
Apart from that, it looks fine to me.
Good luck!
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