Thread: All problems solved! Pls. review!

Hello All! Think I've got this site all together now. Would appreciate any and all reviews, advice, criticisms, suggestions.
Thanks to all who've helped me get this far. I'd have given up long ago without you.
Debi
Continue shopping button works fine w/ IE, but does not return to page in Firefox.

in the What sets us apart the text bring your memories to life the life is overlaping,
actually it is like that on all pages except the home page do this its easy remove all the text from those pages copy the text on homepage and place it on all the other pages or simply stretch the text to make it all line up together. i just usually copy and paste, but everyone is different :)

I use ie6 tried ie7 and firefox so need to say i don't like them so i never upgrade my explorer.

but site looks great.

Thanks for the input! Stretched the text box, let me know if that helped! Didn't show that way on my browser, what is your screen set at? Mine is 1024X768.

Hi Debi,
I didn't see any overlap... the site looks great ... easy to move around in.
Good job!

Hi, the site looks fine, but I am not sure about the form area.
http://www.memoriesdvds.com/webcontract.html
When you print the form it is on just over the length of a page & the 2nd page only has a 1/3 of it being used. It may be nice to give a bit more room to the rest of the form so that it’s a little easier to get the address in. You may even be better off, having the form over 2 pages & the jargon bit on a separate page, with a tick box on the form to say they have read it.
This also can be easily set up using BV,s free form maker pro.
What it will do is give you the facility of someone filling out there details on the screen & when they press send. You get an email, they get an email that can be set up for them to just sign & send back to you with their cds & deposit. But its still handy to have a printed form.

photo editing, demo slideshow, and pricing the LIFE does overlap, seen you fixed the what sets us apart overlap, it looks better but others are still over lapping sorry just saying what i see on my end.

my setting is 1024 x 768 windows xp , with IE6 explorer, text size medium.

Hello and thanks for to you all for your input so far. I have stretched again, it looks fine on my browser, so pls. let me know if it's better now on yours naghosthunter! Also, redid the order form , giving more space to the first page, Chris. I agee, it looks better and prints nicely.
Debi

You need to start thinking about the terms people will search for to find you. Then you need to use those terms - and use them in the page titles and text. Right now, you're going to be lost on the internet unless you want to use Pay-Per-Click or you have another marketing plan in place to reach the internet users. The search engines aren't going to bring you up in searches with the pages as is.

For example, on your home page, your page title is "Cherish your families memories" - now that says what people feel, but I promise if they are looking for someone to transfer their pictures, they won't be searching using that term. You need to do some hard homework to find the terms people ARE using to find what you do - and then you need to use those terms.

You've got a great product, and the website looks really nice - you've done a wonderful job there, too. Now, you need to concentrate on what's necessary to get people TO your site.

Hello Bethers and thank you! I'm glad to have positive feedback about the site, and what I offer!
Took your advice and made some changes, then checked each page against Widexl, and it's looking good. Have single, double, and three word phrases up at the top for searches. They are slideshow (s), photo (s), DVD (s). Renamed a couple pages as well. Have learned when I make changes, I have to go back and redo that as well!
Now researching info on submitting to SEs. Any suggestions appreciated :)

"contact" on the bottom of what sets us apart overlaps on ie

nice site

also a pic at the bottom right side of dvd page that doesn't show; is red x

OK, widexl is great for checking what YOU have written, but NOT for checking what the keywords people are using should be. The new titles are better, but still not going to bring you much traffic. For example, you would find 3 to 4 times more people search for "photo to dvd" than do "dvd photo slideshow". And many use photo to cd - so using the term cd is important.

Again, do the research to see what people use to search - not what terms you are using on the site.

much better no more overlapping

I like the way you got the slideshows to play. Site looks really good :)
Teri

Hi Debi.....Ditto what Bethers said about the research for terms. Remember when we did the web conference, I had mentioned to you that doing this reasearch for your industry is going to be very key. The stuff we came up with during the web conference was just preliminary.

As far as submitting to the SEs, I would submit to MSN search but not to Google and Yahoo. Everyone talks about the google sandbox but Yahoo has one too! MSN will pick your site up the fastest and you will be able to track your results quickly. To get into Google and Yahoo without being sandboxed, write a couple of articles about your topic and inlcude a link in your sig at the bottom of the article and submit it to article directories. Google and Yahoo will both crawl the bigger Article sites about every other day and will also crawl any sites that your article has been delivered to as well. Once they crawl your links in your articles...PRESTO! You are indexed! This has worked for about 5 of my sites. This was something I learned after having my very first site get sandboxed for about 5 months...That is very frustrating!

Really glad to see the site coming together!.

http://www.memoriesdvds.com/demo.html

bottom right on this page a picture doesnt show up


http://www.memoriesdvds.com/pricing.html
contact link on this page has no link

Your order form: think about making a BV form with a submit button, it would be a great addition, not sure the tutorial for that, someone here will chime in with it eventually..

looks great,

p.s. one seems to never be "finished"..lol

Whew! Thanks guys! OK, fixed the contact link...what happens to them? I worked before! LOL The "picture" that doesn't show up is actually the box for Photodex Presenter that somehow works w/ the flash. It shows there in IE, but is invisible in Firefox. (if you're talking about the small box at the bottom? It should actually show as a silver/gray box w/ a "loading" thing going on.
Added the word "wedding" several times to bring it "up", as wedding photo slideshow gets me where I want to be, as DVD etc does NOT. Forgot a bit of that lesson mottoxxx! I'll likely get most of my business from weddings at these $$. Do I have the right idea now? Or am I still not getting it?
BV Form a good idea. Explored that possibility earlier when Collectors-info brought it up. Had to reset my brain around thinking I was "done"! Yes, never "finished" is more like it!

The "picture" that doesn't show up is actually the box for Photodex Presenter that somehow works w/ the flash. It shows there in IE, but is invisible in Firefox. (if you're talking about the small box at the bottom? It should actually show as a silver/gray box w/ a "loading" thing going on.

Still isn't showing anything but a little x in a box - am using IE7

IE7 may be the difference. Is OK in IE6, and Firefox. What does the little red x mean, anyway? I've seen it occasionally. Is it a missing plugin? something to do w/ active x? Do you know? I've seen it in emails w/ photos that won't load.

FYI -
Yahoo has already found you:
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.co...&fr2=seo-rd-se
Google and MSN will be right behind. Submitting to se's is not important - it's having links they can find to you that is.

Hot D%&M !!! Thanks Bethers!!!! This is terrific!
I cannot beleive I have really done this.
But certainly not without alot of very gracious help!
My thanks to you all!

I like your concept, and you clear definition of purpose -- your straightforwardness, I guess you'd call it. Simplicity sells, and brevity begats retention.

You've had some great help on some of the finer points of SEO, logical "fixes" on many of technical elements (forms, etc.), but before you sign off, did anyone address the fact that your pages are not transitioning properly?
1. Your header, Menu, tag line, and even your "centerpoint" are all registered differently on each page.
You can see this yourself if you bring your browser to full screen, and by simply clicking through to each page in succession, you will see how not only do your most important elements shift in place, but your page actually moves independently as well....

This overall continuity is so very important to the "finished look" of your site, and contributes vastly to the visitor experience that it surely needs to be addressed......even before everything "works" properly, in my opinion!

This can be corrected easily, even though all your pages are "completed" (you don't have that many pages, really) by simply re-registering everything from your index page (if that is the most "perfect" page you decide to conform to) using the X-Y axis tool on the lower right of the BV broswer bar to precisely postion each element.

It is worth the couple of hours to make sure everything truly is "perfect" before you shift focus to the background maintenence routines.

Great follow-through, Debi!
I remember answering one of your very first posts!

thank you Vasili! Didn't even know X-Y axis tool existed....Jeez.
Will start on that today! Yet another learning curve!
Thank you also for the generous compliments on my site. After all this work, it helps to know I've gotten the basic idea right.

X-Y axis How do you use this thing, anyway????
Sorry. Blondie here.

Pretty simple.....you can figure it out by picking an object and clicking on it.
Now that it is "highlighted" the the first set of numbers in the X-Y axis (in the corner of the BV browser pane) will tell you exactly where the upper-left corner of that object is in relation to the page (X= how many spaces from the left margin, and y= how many lines down from the top). The second set of numbers refers to the right side positioning of the object.

I find it much easier (and quicker) to concentrate on the first set of numbers to register things....just highlight each object, write down the "set-point", and then move each subsequent page objects to match.....DONE!

As far as "centering" your page, if you are using the 800w model, sometimes it is helpful to merely set your viewable guideline to 400, and then "straddle" everything to this defined page center. (be sure you double check that your page properties are properly set to 800w -and "center in browser" is checked- before publishing!)


This is the old-fashioned way, before BV came out with the "clone" feature that makes things so much easier for folks....unfortunately, I still have too much graphic design leanings, and prefer to manipulate by hand! LOL

Alrighty then. This is moved up to "next" on the list.... Sounds simple enough!
The goal is to make uniform the "fixed" items on the page.
Thank you, Vasili.

I personally love the clone feature first - then the copy and paste (when used correctly from the icons) - then the axis - just for speed of doing these things. But I use the axis to align all the images on the page. Doing so by eye, there is usually a lot of mistakes, but seeing the numbers, you know they are on target.

Thanks! Good advice. I'm going to call it a night, and start again tommorro.
I need someone to say there comes a time that the word "finished" has meaning :) LOL

Will never here me say a website is every finished.

It might be ready for business - but there will always be changes and work to be done.

Sorry :)

*Ahem*

Since she already HAS made her pages (and has less than 1/2 dozen), cloning is not an option....as I pointed out. Doing simple re-positioning via the X-Y Tool is the only way to simplify things...without having to start from scratch.
Just trying to provide an immediate solution without adding any confusion..as was so transparent, right?? <KISS>

Next website, Debi will know the importance of registration, and most likely will include CLONE as an important regimen to page creation!

Hi

I like your site, it's really easy to use and clearly offers what you set out to. Just a couple of comments: on your home page "familys' memories" should have an apostrophe after the 'y' - ie it should be "family's memories" (the memories of your family). If you want memories of families (plural) then it's "families' memories". (Sorry to be boring but it jumped out at me!)

I also agree you need more keywords in there to be picked up by search engines.

Best wishes
Fiona
www.spiderywriting.com

"Next website"....Hmmmm....that'll take some consideration! LOL