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My website dedicated to helping non-profits with web development, is almost finished with the design stage. I would appreciate input from ya'll as to how it looks, especially if it renders okay on the many different browsers you may use that I don't.
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It displays normally in IE, Firefox and Opera on my system running Vista. Text magnification doesn't break most of the layout, although it does cause the three subheader links to become misspaced (overall, this is a good thing, since many amateur coded sites break in half when text is magnified).
It's a good start, and much better than the last draft you showed us (I'm glad you took the advice about too many colors & highlighting). From a technical standpoint, you're more or less okay.
From a design standpoint, I feel you need to rethink your use of space. The information is presented concisely enough, but, it still looks more like a high school comp sci project than a professional service. For a fantastic example of a similarly non profit assistance oriented website, check out the Craigslist Foundation's website.
From a viability standpoint, I'd work long and hard on the copy of your site. Because the site offers copy writing services, savvy viewers will expect the site to demonstrate a mastery of language that just isn't present.
Misc. notes: make absolutely sure the images you're using are either free to reuse commercially or paid for (with any applicable royalty fees paid to the appropriate parties). You may also want to manually respace the letters in the word "growth" in the header.
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quote: Misc. notes: make absolutely sure the images you're using are either free to reuse commercially or paid for (with any applicable royalty fees paid to the appropriate parties). You may also want to manually respace the letters in the word "growth" in the header.
Yep, this is handled.
quote: From a viability standpoint, I'd work long and hard on the copy of your site. Because the site offers copy writing services, savvy viewers will expect the site to demonstrate a mastery of language that just isn't present.
Very good advice.
That link you gave is quite well designed. Thanks for the guidance and please give more! Posts: 3060 | Registered: Nov 2003
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In addition to the "Services", "Resources", and "Non Profit Policy" links at the top of your site, I would add a fourth link to a dedicated "Contact Us" page. In addition to your email address it could contain a mailing address, phone number, and/or a guarantee as to how long you will take to respond to inquiries (if a potential customer sends you an email should they worry if they don't get a response within 3 days?)
I know that you have an email link on your services page, however there is no indication of this on the rest of the site.
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1) Seconding Threads' advice, add a Contact link. 2) Incorporate the information on the index page into one of the other links, and make that the index (e.g. make the index content the first content to appear on the "Services" page, and make that page the index). Anything you leave on the index on a site that doesn't have an obvious "Home" link will never be seen again, and it will frequently frustrate viewers. The "seo copy & growth" 'logo' links back to the index, but it's not obviously a link; I didn't notice it until I looked for it.
3) The body text is a point / two pixels or so too large.
4) Your site is about SEO, but as yet has practically no meta information and I can see no evidence of popular organic pagerank improvement techniques evident anywhere in your site. This may, of course, just be something you just haven't had a chance to implement yet.
5) I agree with Zeugma on the stock photos: they can go. The space would be better used with diagrams, summary statements, pertinent thumbed screen caps, etc.
6) You will want to link both a privacy policy and ToS to every page of your site.
7) The header font needs to be smaller as well.
8) Specifics, specifics, specifics. After re-reading the copy of your site, I'm still not entirely clear on what it is you propose to do for someone with regards to SEO.
9) I just read your "SEO Basic Tips" article and it made me not want to read anything else on your site. The language is unnecessarily condescending in several places, like this: "This will redirect the http://yoursite.com to www.yoursite.com, which is what you almost always want. We've seen far too many websites have this silly mistake." In essence, you've just called everyone who has made this (extremely common) error silly - the very people you're hoping will use your services. This can and will be a deal breaker; use language that assures a potential client that you are an expert, but that doesn't mean they're stupid..
10) Why is your URL scogrowth.com? Because there's no reference to the acronym "SCO" on your site (and even "SEO and Copy Growth" does not logically shorten to "SCOgrowth"), you run a high risk of people misremembering your URL.
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