Need help on HTML

Hello

I'm looking to make my new site search engine friendly especially in regard to the HTML of the site. Its a brand new site and it has not been submitted to Google yet. I just need help on making sure I don't have any bad errors of HTML on the site. I also would be open to any ideas to improve the HTML.

Also, the links are not connected to anything yet. I have the content ready but want to be sure my site is ready to go. Also, there will be a logo at the top. That is the only thing on the main page that is not yet finished.

Oh I also could use some help with meta tags, which ones you use, which are effective etc.

URL: http://www.marketingebookreviews.com

Thanks
-conroy

for starters, you need a doctype declaration.

next, take your css and put it in an external file. just link it. Take out the template comments they are useless and show others that you are using a template.
Meta tags will do you no good, they are not even looked at by most search engines now.

Get links back to your site, good ones.. lots of them.

if you want to spot errors in the code, use the validator at w3c.org

zen

Thanks for the help.

I got rid of the comment tags and I'm working on the external CSS but it doesn't seem to want to work.

my CSS doc looks like this:

body
{ background-image: url("i/bg.gif"); background-repeat: repeat-y; }
body,td
{ font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: 12px; }
.leftlink
{ font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; }
.carea
{ font-size: 11px; color: #7A7A7A; line-height: 22px; }
A:link
{ text-decoration: none; color: #006BFF; }
A:visited
{ text-decoration: none; color: #006BFF; }
A:hover
{ text-decoration: underline; color: #006BFF; }
A:link.leftlink
{ text-decoration: none; color: #636363; }
A:visited.leftlink
{ text-decoration: none; color: #636363; }
A:hover.leftlink
{ text-decoration: underline; color: #636363; }


I have it linked in the head part as: <LINK REL=stylesheets TYPE="text/css" HREF="css1.txt">

But it is not looking right. How do I fix it?

thanks
conroy

Your external stylesheet has to have the ending .css, so it would have to be css1.css

try it like this

<link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="css1.css">

Visited your site and it's pretty fine, html very tidy and graphics fine. Try exporting the navigation images home, products, aso. as GIF with i guess 32 colours with dithering. will look much better, since the jpg artifacts are pretty obvious. File Size should be the same.

Cheers,
Alex

Hi

Thanks Alex. I was following instructions on a web site for setting up external css and they were definitely not working. I should have just used my knowledge of html and edited it to add quotes around "stylesheets" I think that is what made it work. Thanks for the help there.

I need more help with exporting those images. I'm not exactly sure what you mean or what to do.

If you could give a dummy proof step by step it would help me a lot.

thanks again

No problem, what graphic software are you using?

I normally use abobe photoshop and image ready for export. image ready may not be the ultimate programm for image compression, but it works fine for me.

If you send me the master document for the navi, i'll make a guide for it - and send you the compressed images.

cheers, alex

Wanted to have 2 different a:link colours, searched this forum and bingo

Saved me alot of time

Good post Guys.