Test request, and a question

[daedreem]

With the assistance of Large Nostril and others from this forum, I am working on a system of Dynamic Link or information content.

When I was first testing the coding I was given, it would not work on either my PC or my husbands, but I was able to get it running on mine, and my husband recently re-installed Windows, and it now works for him.

I would like to have as many people test my testing page as possible before I take the new system live, to make sure the general public will not have difficulties in accessing my content.

Please visit My TEST page and give me a critique on the appearance and usability?

-Also, in addition to the Linking system, I've added something new site wide, and wondered if anyone can suggest a better way to do it.
Since so much of my content is Images, for instance images stating "child abuse prevention", and I do not want to add long strings of text describing not only every image itself, but the kind of content the link image is directed too, I was worried about what to do to make my site pull up search results... What I just did to fix this as invisibly as possible, I added keywords in size 1 font the same color as my background in a 3rd column on the page I'd originally added just to make the page center correctly.
The problem with this, is it is already rather long, and as I add in new keywords, will get even longer, stretching my page length out further.
Is there any way to make these keywords be read by the search-bots, but not print on the screen at all?

[VHockey86]

You could use the META tag with keywords to help with SEO, but some search engines claim they do not support the tag anymore. I know yahoo still officially supports it.

Do some reading on SEO (search engine optimization) and you'll probably fine a solution that works better than littering your page with tiny text.

In terms of the actual site...I seem to be missing the big picture. You say "dynamic linking system", but what exactly are you trying to achieve? All I noticed were some link pictures that resized when you clicked on them.

[RobRich]

I broke your code with just a few mouse clicks. You need to validate the HTML coding. Some images and links are defined with [url] and [IMG] tags, which are not valid HTML. You need to change those to <A HREF=""> and <IMG SRC=""> tags.

By search results, are you referring to search engines like Yahoo! and Google. If so, you can insert "hidden" image descriptions by using an <IMG> tag attribute - <IMG SRC="image_file_name" ALT="image_file_description"> to be exact. The text string describes the image, plus serves as a placeholder reference for the image - important for text browsers or people that surf with images disabled.

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/special/img.html

Robert Richmond

[daedreem]

Quote:

Originally Posted by RobRich

I broke your code with just a few mouse clicks. You need to validate the HTML coding. Some images and links are defined with [url] and [IMG] tags, which are not valid HTML. You need to change those to <A HREF=""> and <IMG SRC=""> tags.

By search results, are you referring to search engines like Yahoo! and Google. If so, you can insert "hidden" image descriptions by using an <IMG> tag attribute - <IMG SRC="image_file_name" ALT="image_file_description"> to be exact. The text string describes the image, plus serves as a placeholder reference for the image - important for text browsers or people that surf with images disabled.

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/special/img.html

Robert Richmond

Um.. RobRich.. the only BB code on that page is what I put there specifically in the bottom section, for people to copy out the content...
Are you talking of the images below this section?

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[daedreem]

No replies folks?

[RobRich]

If the BB code is there for a reason, then your page is fine. All I did was skim the format, not really the content. I suggest increasing the content width and using a more uniform text format, but that is a personal preference.

As for increasing GoogleRank beyond using basic META and ALT tags, you getting into SEO (search engine optimization), which I do not publicly discuss in any great deal due to a non-disclosure agreement I currently have in effect. For example:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=sit...&cop=&ei=UTF-8

Compare the number of indexed pages versus most other similar size technical community sites.

[daedreem]

Yeah... that's a lot of listings.. LOL

Well, I guess 'll have to see whether or not my page improves a bit with google then... I currently only have 2 pages shown when searching my domain.