new site

[hammy]

Ok my new site is up and running and I am open to suggestions and comments wether good or bad. And yes its called Hammy`s Weddings

www.hammysweddings.co.uk

[MikeW]

Ok my new site is up and running and I am open to suggestions and comments wether good or bad. And yes its called Hammy`s Weddings

www.hammysweddings.co.uk

I think it looks really good, a very professional looking website

[Corabar Entertainment]

The header is disapearing of both sides of the screen with no scroll bar for me on Firefox, Hammy :(

[hammy]

The header is disapearing of both sides of the screen with no scroll bar for me on Firefox, Hammy :(

Might be your settings as its good for me in firefox

[Booche]

Same here Gra both sides missing on FF :(

[hammy]

Same here Gra both sides missing on FF :(

How wierd as its fine my end

[hammy]

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh28/hammyloz/Untitled-1.jpg

[AndyC]

Very nice works ok for me here at work using IE 8

[Corabar Entertainment]

Is it set to a fixed pixel width and you have a large screen?

[Corabar Entertainment]

Is it set to a fixed pixel width and you have a large screen?

PS: Yep: must be screen size, because it's the same in IE on mine.

[Marc J]

Coding error on the client log on button...

[hammy]

Coding error on the client log on button...

Thanks Marc

[hammy]

PS: Yep: must be screen size, because it's the same in IE on mine.

I have asked the company who designed it this question so await the answer.

Yes I have a 22 incher :D

[Corabar Entertainment]

As an experiment, I made the window small (since everyone will view on different sized screens) to see what happened. Still no horizontal scroll bar, so no way to look at the rest of the page. All I got was this:-

[hammy]

As an experiment, I made the window small (since everyone will view on different sized screens) to see what happened. Still no horizontal scroll bar, so no way to look at the rest of the page. All I got was this:-

Oooh not nice, will get it sorted

[Marc J]

I'd have a serious issue with the web designers putting their name and link in the h1 tag!

Page source has: -

<h1>Hammy's Weddings - Part of Hammy's Entertainment - Professional wedding party DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire - Web design by <a href="http://hodephdesign.com" style="color:#bcae51;">Hodeph Design</a></h1>

Through css styling this is replaced with your logo, but search engines don't necessarily see this, they read the text, and so they see a big link for the web designers in the prime location on the page. I've attached what the page looks like with CSS disabled (i.e. to search engines)!

I hope you didn't pay full price for their "superior package". With hidden backlinks like that, they should be paying you :D

Even if they didn't have their own link, changing the h1 tag through CSS for your logo is considered bad practice by many. See http://davidwalsh.name/confessions-x - this guy knows his stuff...see the 7th point :eek:

[Vectis]

Nice design work but from a coding point of view four things leapt out at me when looking at the index page (didn't get any further, sorry):

1. Lots of embedded styling which really ought to be in an external CSS file to improve the content-to-HTML ratio (better for SE's and easier for future updates)

2. No content! Apart from the meta data and the nav bar titles there's nothing for the search engines to index, so I don't hold out much hope for a long-term strong ranking for this page.

3. I know it's not a big thing but best practice says your non-essential javascript (in this case the Google Analytics code) should go at the bottom of the page to speed up your loading times.

4. What's with all the non-breaking spaces padding out the nav menu? (&nbsp;) - apart from not necessarily being rendered consistently across all browsers, they dilute your content ratio.


HTH

Edit:


I'd have a serious issue with the web designers putting their name and link in the h1 tag!


Oh yeah! I missed that first time round - nasty...

[Marc J]

3. I know it's not a big thing but best practice says your non-essential javascript (in this case the Google Analytics code) should go at the bottom of the page to speed up your loading times.

The latest GA tracking code uses asynchronous javascript, so shouldn't delaying subsequent content from rendering. Google now recommend it goes just before the closing </head> tag (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html).

[Vectis]

The latest GA tracking code uses asynchronous javascript, so shouldn't delaying subsequent content from rendering. Google now recommend it goes just before the closing </head> tag (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html).

OK - scratch #3 in this case but if any more JS crops up (not looked at Gallery page) then the advice still stands.

[Marc J]

Oooh not nice, will get it sorted

Remove the

overflow-x:hidden;

from the body element styling in mainstyle.css (line 9) to reinstate the horizontal scrollbar.

[Marc J]

Page source has: -

<h1>Hammy's Weddings - Part of Hammy's Entertainment - Professional wedding party DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire - Web design by <a href="http://hodephdesign.com" style="color:#bcae51;">Hodeph Design</a></h1>

Through css styling this is replaced with your logo, but search engines don't necessarily see this, they read the text, and so they see a big link for the web designers in the prime location on the page.

Just had a closer look, the h1 tag is actually inside the footer div, the text in it is still visible as it's in the page footer across the bottom. So it's not quite as bad as I originally said, your logo isn't replacing the h1 tag via css, but it's still an h1 tag being "abused" (tiny text at the bottom of the page - hardly the correct use for h1, and there's still the issue of their link within it) and to make it worse they've put it at the top of the page code to give it more importance (even though it finally renders at the bottom due to the css styling).

Still very bad. Just not very very bad :(

[hammy]

Hi Marc, can you try your magic again as I told him about the things you wrote, Cheers.

[discomobiledj]

Just view the source page. The H1 tag was quite near the top

Still showing....


<body>
<img src="images/hammysweddingsdjsplash.jpg" style="position:absolute;left:50%;margin-left:-400px;top:260px;" alt="Hammy's Weddings - Professional Wedding DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire" />
<div class="footer">
<h1>Hammy's Weddings - Part of Hammy's Entertainment - Professional wedding party DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire</h1>
<p>Web design by <a href="http://hodephdesign.com" style="color:#bcae51;">Hodeph Design</a></p>
</div>

[Marc J]

Hi Marc, can you try your magic again as I told him about the things you wrote, Cheers.

Sorry, was away for the weekend....

As steve mentions, the source code now has (at the start of the page body): -


<body>
<img src="images/hammysweddingsdjsplash.jpg" style="position:absolute;left:50%;margin-left:-400px;top:260px;" alt="Hammy's Weddings - Professional Wedding DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire" />
<div class="footer">
<h1>Hammy's Weddings - Part of Hammy's Entertainment - Professional wedding party DJ covering Eastbourne, Sussex, Kent and Hampshire</h1>
<p>Web design by <a href="http://hodephdesign.com" style="color:#bcae51;">Hodeph Design</a></p>
</div>

So, they've taken their link text out of the h1 tag, which is much better.

BUT, the footer is still the first thing in the page source, while for visitors it's the last thing on the page. And the h1 text is still used (imho) incorrectly for this. Strictly speaking what they're doing is presenting different content to search engines that visitors - search engines think it's at the top (first thing on the page), visitors see it at the bottom (last thing on the page). Google call this "cloaking" and in the overall scheme of things this example is a fairly minor offence, but it's still a bit naughty and might find you in trouble.

I wouldn't do it, that's for sure. They'll argue it's good for SEO. It may well be, but then it might be terminally bad for your SEO in the long run...

[hammy]

Thanks Marc. Guess I need to kick butt as I told them to remove it.