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Website review request: iweb site

tapdancemadeeasytapdancemadeeasy subscriber Posts: 1
edited November 2007 in Website Critique
.tapdancemadeeasy12/4/2007 10:00 AM

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  • WeblineWebline subscriber Posts: 13 Bronze Level Member

    First off .... in Firefox and IE, your "Contact" button isn`t in the correct place. In IE, in the boxes above the index page videos, the text goes below the box. Much of the text is hard to read due to its color/size against the graphic background.
    I would reduce the size of your background images and tile them to reduce load times and bandwidth.
    SEO
    A downfall to web builder programs is the excess code written into your pages.
    Code to text ratio. 7.35%
    Crawling simulation gives you this .....
        "about the dvds created for both non dancers and dancers alike learn all the basics of tap dance in a clearly instructed fun to use dvd series learn from the ground up all the way through intermediate level in a 3 video series that features technique exercises speed steps time steps and short tap dance combinations using your new skills benefit from an enjoyable non strenuous form of exercise view each exercise from 2 angles at the same time from the back as if in a class from the side close up of instructor s tap shoes click picture to watch a sample clip from level 1 basic shuffles all rights reserved copyright 2007 tap dance made easy www tapdancemadeeasy com click picture to watch a sample clip from level 2 intermediate various ".... because too much of your page is done in images, not actual text. There is almost nothing for a spider to actually read.
    You don`t have good/effective meta tags, or beneficial SEO tags within your pages.
  • tapdancemadeeasytapdancemadeeasy subscriber Posts: 1
    Professor,
    Thanks so much for taking the time to review my site.  Your suggestions are excellent.  Keep up the good work here on the forum!
  • tapdancemadeeasytapdancemadeeasy subscriber Posts: 1
    Webline,
    Thanks so much for the SEO analysis.  I suppose that is another major downfall of iWeb:  the fact that much of the text gets converted to images. 
    Thanks also for your analysis of the site, you have a great eye.
    Eli
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