Feedback Appreciated

Hi folks,

I have been learning like crazy and reading and lurking for the sake of learning more.

I am however, not gaining very much ground as of yet with respect to earning back my previous #2-#5 rankings on my top key words. I have implemented a number of techniques that have been repeated again and again here, but, being a complete novice I must be able to do more.

I would appreciate feedback on my site www.occasionallygifted.com and where I might take it from here for better SEO.

Also, (just to show how new my hat really is) I cannot get rid of the error my index page generates - when I use my WYSIWYG I don't even HAVE a line 586. Tips?

Tested in MOzilla 800x600. This is a very good design. Just a couple of things that I would change. Many of the links are all in capitals - better to have mixed upper and lower case. It would also help navigation if the links rolloed over (highlighted when the mouse passed over them) which is easly achieved with a bit of CSS. Graphics are a bit slow to load on my 56k modem but there probably isn't much you can do about that. Otherwise, a good design. Didn't see an error by the way. Good luck with it.

Nick

Thanks nickc, I greatly appreciate the time you took to have a look and make suggestions. I have already implemented them and am glad I did! I notice that you also take the time to respond to many of the other requests for site reviews and provide comments often. Time is valuable and your suggestions worth gold! have a good one,

The overlap of text and images is occuring with IE6 (latest SP) at 1024 x 768 - specifically in the header - text overuns on top of "Occaisonally Gifted" Title and also over the date - everything below the header bar looks okay.

Thought you should know.

Thanks - I have yet to learn how to (if at all) optimize for the different resolutions. I still work off 800 X 600 and was visiting someone with a nice luxury big screen the other day and noticed my site looks like crap because it only fills half their screen. I didn't realize it was overlapping though -thanks.

A few more things to do:

Take the JS codes to external files
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You are already using a CSS file to maintain the side menu, why not extend this through out the site? Also take the CSS to external files.

This way you will get rid of all the unnecessary JS, Style as well as font size, color and face stuff off your pages and this will result in smaller and faster loading pages.

It looks OK with 1024*768 on Opera 7.02

I think its a great idea....honestly, I JUST implemented the css after nickc suggested it...so now that I have taught myself what its basically about I will try to run it through the site. My concern is that I have built it using templates and layers, and when I have made significant changes in the past they have backfired and caused me to put in alot of extra work. But that's what I get for learning as I go! Once again, Thank you!