Help please

DeepAndy · 1 Jan 2004

happy new year all,

Ok, some of you have asked about piccies of my boat, so as i can only think of showing you all my temporary website as i can't figure out how to load one onto my profile here.

Will love to hear any comments on my web design & structure

Andy

http://uk.geocities.com/taurusdivingltd/

<hr width=100% size=1>temp Wesite http://uk.geocities.com/taurusdivingltd/

Happy1 · 2 Jan 2004

Tried to have look but not working I'm afraid.

<hr width=100% size=1> "You only see what you recognise, and you only recognise what you know"

BarryH · 2 Jan 2004

Thats coz everyman and his dog is trying to access it so the bandwidth allowance has been exceeded in a nano second of the post going up.

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BrendanS · 2 Jan 2004

How big are the piccies you've put on there Andy? You've exceeded your allowed bandwidth (so no one can get on there now) extremely quickly, so piccies might be too big????

Personally, I'd change the background. Although it looks 'nice' I find textured backgrounds like that, with pale writing, difficult to read. Didn't get much further than that.

<hr width=100% size=1> I asked an economist for her phone number....and she gave me an estimate

hlb · 2 Jan 2004

Works fine. Look at spelling mistakes.

http://uk.geocities.com/taurusdivingltd/

<hr width=100% size=1> No one can force me to come here. I'm a volunteer!!.

Haydn

BrendanS · 2 Jan 2004

OK, back in.

Pictures aren't too big, so looks like doesn't need many people to hit site in an hour to exceed bandwith limits.

I'd move the two rows of lnavigation links a bit further apart so that it's more obvious they are separate 'about us' , 'boat details' etc

Also give phone number as well as email link - many people like to call

Provide summary up front on home page of what you do, people don't like to go navigating around a site unless you hook them quickly, and you might lose potential customers who are too lazy to click on your navigation links.

Dive Dover and gallery are empty? remove these links until you something in there.

Bandwidth has just been exceeded again, so can't go further. If you are going to use this as a commercial site, will need to fix this side of things.

<hr width=100% size=1> I asked an economist for her phone number....and she gave me an estimate

gonfishing · 2 Jan 2004

Incredibly slow loading, especially on dial up, I did'nt wait for page to fully load,
Sorry

Julian

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Johnjo · 2 Jan 2004

I am also on dial up, but found the exact opposit to Julian in that it loaded very fast,
In fact no delay at all !

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gonfishing · 2 Jan 2004

Spooky

Just tried it again and POW!!! loaded straight away!! So I must agree with Brendans comment about band width

Julian

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Jools_of_Top_Cat · 2 Jan 2004

Geocities is a no no unfortunately. It makes you seem very amateurish, and it will not show up very well in search engines.
Just looking at your code >>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>Home Page</title>
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
</head>

Search engines such as google will use the meta tags to list your page primarily and your title homepage will join about six squillion pages at the extreme bottom of searches.

Try >>

<head>
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="FOLLOW,INDEX">
<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="10 days">
<meta name="description" content=" TAURUS DIVING LTD 07860 934712 Charter diving boat from Dover ">
<meta name="keywords" content="Dover Diving catamaran charter Taurus scuba wreck fishing">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<title>Taurus Diving Charter</title>
</head>

This is just a suggestion, also have a look at hosting, companies such as <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.34sp.com>34SP</A> are very good and affordable, I use them for my site and have no problems at all. Also I just looked for Taurus-diving.co.uk and it is open….

taurus-diving.co.uk £5/year X 2 year = £10

taurus-diving.com £10/year X 2 year = £20

taurus-diving.net £10/year X 2 year = £20

hope this helps, if I can help any further please feel free to PM etc.

<hr width=100% size=1>Julian

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.topcatsail.co.uk>Top Cat Homepage</A>

Talon · 2 Jan 2004

Do we all have pics of our boats on web sites?

I posted a load of my boat on a website, also did a video, unfortunately I need someone on another boat to video it from the outside as it goes past.

It would be really cool if we had a gallery on this site with pics of our boats on it?

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.mad-als.com>http://www.mad-als.com</A>

The only comment I have, is register your own domain, much nicer not to have the yahoo adverts on it. Otherwise, nice pics....

<hr width=100% size=1>Alex

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.mad-als.com>http://www.mad-als.com</A>Edited by Talon on 02/01/2004 22:59 (server time).

BrendanS · 2 Jan 2004

Most people tend to use boatone's site for piccies. <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.boatsontheweb.com/>http://www.boatsontheweb.com/</A> click on the piccies bit

<hr width=100% size=1> I asked an economist for her phone number....and she gave me an estimate

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