Website Review and Suggestions

**justen** · 08-02-2008, 07:36 PM

I have had my site up and running for about 2 years. The first year I had it running off of the Joomla CMS, then I switched over to using php by itself.

The site offers local artists/bands to sign up and to get promoted. We make a profile for them with a biography, music, and links to their Website and Myspace's. In additon we post artist news and music videos as well as events for them.

URL http://www.nwchristianmusic.com

I'd love to know what I could improve on to make it better. Right now I average a 40 a day visitor rate, which would love to see it break triple numbers in the near future.

**eautocad** · 08-03-2008, 01:29 AM

Nice site, the color scheme sticks out and emphasizes on what needs to be said. Your message is conveyed instantly. I got "Wesleyan" style retro christian kind of cool rock n roll site... is this right?

**justen** · 08-03-2008, 02:50 AM

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Originally Posted by eautocad

Nice site, the color scheme sticks out and emphasizes on what needs to be said. Your message is conveyed instantly. I got "Wesleyan" style retro christian kind of cool rock n roll site... is this right?

Yep that's correct. Thanks for the nice good feedback.

**protospike** · 08-03-2008, 07:35 AM

Like eautocad said, I agree that the color theme is suitable for the content of the site.

Just 3 things that I can think of at the moment:

1. Perhaps this is just personal taste, but maybe left-align instead of centre your pargraphs (I'm talking about Our Mission, SignUp to mailing list etc)
2. Perhaps the store page could link back to the homepage. I know the back button on the browser seems obvious, but some people don't know what it does

Then again, it's not a big issue
3. If you use XML for your site map instead of a list, your website will probably be more findable via the search engines.

Hope that was helpful

**justen** · 08-04-2008, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by protospike

Like eautocad said, I agree that the color theme is suitable for the content of the site.

Just 3 things that I can think of at the moment:

1. Perhaps this is just personal taste, but maybe left-align instead of centre your pargraphs (I'm talking about Our Mission, SignUp to mailing list etc)
2. Perhaps the store page could link back to the homepage. I know the back button on the browser seems obvious, but some people don't know what it does

Then again, it's not a big issue
3. If you use XML for your site map instead of a list, your website will probably be more findable via the search engines.

Hope that was helpful

Yeah it was very helpful, thanks. One question, how would i make my XML Sitemap show up in a template? So it's not just a random page?

**startrak118** · 08-04-2008, 01:10 PM

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Yeah it was very helpful, thanks. One question, how would i make my XML Sitemap show up in a template? So it's not just a random page?

You can use XSL to add formatting to the XML file. W3Schools.com has a great tutorial to help.