Made changes to my site www.luvcomputers.com - Thoughts?

12 Dec 06 10:03 am

Hi Davin,

Not sure if it is my browser or not, but your content does not fit within the borders of your white box.

The title is actually overlapping the next line of text. This is happening on all pages.

I am using Firefox

12 Dec 06 1:20 pm

hmmm, well that's odd, about the overlapping and not fitting sort of thing.
I wonder if it's because I switched my resolution to 1024x768, from 800x600, when I was making it. I then had to resize things to make it look better for that resolution. It looks normal to me when I look at it in 1024x768. I'll have to switch back to see what you guys are seeing I guess.

Actually Sean, I did have it as just a solid white background until just recently, maybe I should switch it back. I just figured it looked a little better with the texture. As for the photos linking somewhere, wouldn't that sort of thing go against what I'm trying to with the silo structure. I was under the impression that I should be only linking to one next subcategory within the body of the text, which is what it does. As for the picture, yeah, I agree, this picture is only temporary I figure, until I take a few more of myself. thanx for the replies, keep it coming, just want to make it as good as possible, Davin

12 Dec 06 1:54 pm

Actually I just looked at it in Mozilla Firefox, and can see what you guy's are talking about with the overlapping, also none of my alternative text is showing up in Firefox either, that's weird. I'm not sure what to do about that? Davin

12 Dec 06 3:56 pm

Hi Davin,

Good going getting your site up and rolling.

I'm getting the same overlapping text in Firefox and I'm wondering why the "Worldwide Computer Solutions through a Local PC Repair Service" is there outside the box maybe put it inside the white table - I'm thinking that would be a great spot for your keyword headline.

also, the blue underlined text like; LuvComputers PC Repair, is confusing because it looks like a link but it isn't.

I find the color for your footer link hover is too dark to read on my monitor - maybe a lighter blue would work better.

and I agree with Sean, the background is confusing, there's so much going on in the page, you may want to try a solid background. I always have a diffecult time deciding on table colors and found this html color combination picker to be helpful.

Adding your photo is great, people like doing business with a real person but your photo does look rather Photoshopp-ed up. I smoothed out your edges, to see the difference, use it if you like, I'll take it offline after a day.


The copy on your home page, though lovely for me to read because I care about you as a board-mate, That would be a great "about me" page but it doesn't give a compelling reason for a prospect to stick around and find out more about how you can help them. Prospects only want to know "what's in it for me" or the benefits you can offer them and nothing more - so I would re-work your copy to include:
* benefits
* benefits and more
* benefits

Those are just a few ideas from me, do with it whatever you will :wink:


Congrats, You're off to a great start Davin, much success to you :)

PC

12 Dec 06 5:04 pm

davinator wrote:hmm, ya I'm not sure about the photo, pc, I'm not sure why the image is reversed, and man my hair looks a lot shorter in it, hahaha. ...

oops - sorry Davin - I thought you had a baseball cap on backwards - I didn't mean to give you a haircut - apologizes :oops:
... maybe your mother would like the new look :roll:

PC

12 Dec 06 9:46 pm

Just looking really quickly, here are some things I saw:

You haven't specified a doctype at the top of your page. If IE can't find a doctype (basically a set of rules for your page, telling it what type of HTML you're writing it in) it'll display things in "quirks" mode. "Quirks" for IE means "I'll do whatever I want, I don't care." Unfortunately, if you're designing in quirks mode to begin with (as you would have been) you'll find that the page displays weirdly once you get it into the "proper" browsers, who read things correctly.



Specifically: You're using a lot of DIVs which aren't interpreted the same between browsers (without a doctype specified.) You've also got these DIVs positioned with absolute positioning. Things like this:



To interpret a little: "position:absolute" means "this is it's position relative to the top left edge of the page". It's overriding the normal position of the content.

The z-index is like a layer. Things with a z-index of 4 are "on top" of things with a z-index of 3. Normally the content of a page can't sit on top of other content unless it's a background image, or something. Z-index allows you to pile things on top of each other, and they all pretend the other thing isn't there.

You've also got H1 and H2 tags without margins specified, and there might be a difference between IE and Firefox in their default margin values for headings. A good idea is to create a stylesheet that sets all your heading margins to 0 to begin with.

You've also specified one big background image to be the container for your text. What happens if you write more text than fits inside the box, or if your reader is hard of sight and increases the font size? Your text is going to overflow the box. Then it runs into the content at the bottom of the page which is absolutely positioned, a certain number of pixels from the top and left of the page!

If I were you, I'd either ditch as much of the absolute positioning and z-indexing as I could, and put it inside a table (they're old-fashioned, but the browsers read them roughly the same way.) Or else try specifying a doctype and see what that does. (It will probably screw things up to begin with.) And ditch the background box.

Good luck!
Mark

13 Dec 06 2:51 am

Do wordpress blogs get indexed? They sure as heck do my friend.

Adrian,

13 Dec 06 4:26 am

revimp wrote:sean06 said

And as for the links, you can either use a dynamic link, or add a nofollow tag to the links, so the search engines won't go there. That should fix your site structure problem.

can you explain how to add no follow tags please? thanks

<a href="http://www.google.com" rel="nofollow">Google</a>

Adrian,

13 Dec 06 6:28 am

If you dont want them to count as outbounds then yes.

Adrian,