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Old 05-06-2007, 08:08 PM   #6 (permalink)
Minsc
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I don't have any experience hosting sites but I'm making one and have read about it a lot. Here's my opinion:

The layout's pretty bad...
Also, you should really write the HTML yourself in a text-based editor(like notepad or something with syntax highlighting) instead of using a visual website-maker. The HTML is sloppy too...

Everything on your site uses absolute positions which makes it not center and have a big blank space on the side.

You should also get rid of your blogspot blog since its layout is different from yours and it's hosted on blogspot. Hosting blogs on blogspot and forums on big forum-hosting sites make it look like you didn't spend any time on them to me.

I'd recommend that you just install Wordpress with some plugins and use it alone to make the rest of your site. (I've never used it, but you should be able to upload all of the files onto your server and load one called something like "install.php" to install it, if your web host supports php and mysql; if they don't, you should get a new host)
You should really just install wordpress and make a normal blog...

Your home page is a long description with a list of links. It should be a short, one to two sentance one with recent artices that you've written.

You use span instead of h1 and h2 for your headers which makes them less significant to search engines. Your page titles should include your site's name, probably at the end, and you should have keywords, that people would use in search engines to find your site, put around your site in headers, paragraphs, ect.

Your pages link to themselves.

I'd drop the forums for now and add them when your site is bigger.

You have too much text with too little headers, changes in font size, ect. It's boring to read. I haven't read any of it because it's a big blob of text.

I'd say your site is too narrow. I prefer sites that have paragraphs that are as wide as they can be without forcing you to move your eyes horizontally as you read them.

Your about page is bigger than any other page in the site, and has a link to your articles, which I assume are the most important part of your site, so you should link to them on every page in the top menu thing.

Put all of your links into your links page. No one comes to your site just to go to another one.

No one's going to care about your site until you write some artices, which you should do often. Make a new article once every three days.

Merge your contact page with your about page.

You should stop asking people to write articles for you...

It's good that you have your own domain name.

link:www.vettechjess.com - Google Search
Nobody linked to your site. You're not going to do well in search engines either since they care mostly about who links to your site and how.
Google's not too accurate when it comes to links though.

There's probably more but I'm done for now...
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