Website Review and Suggestions

**SimpleLance.Com** · 01-06-2007, 03:35 PM

Hi,

I have just finished my site i appreciate any feedback

www.simplefreelance.com

I would also appreciate reviews on the seo i have done if anyone has experience.

Thankin you.

**travelagent** · 01-06-2007, 04:26 PM

Overall, I like your site - easy to navigate and the color scheme fits nicely; I'll recommend your site on another Forum, as they're always looking for freelancers.

Your site is missing a <!DOCTYPE Declaration> which is mandatory for most current markup languages, and without one, it's impossible to reliably validate a document. The DOCTYPE defines the version of the document like -- HTML 4.0.1, XHTML 1.0, 1.1, ...etc.

You have 14 code errors and 87 code warnings, you may wish to fix, so that your site validates for accessibility in all browsers, as shown here ...

Code:

line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration
line 9 column 116 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&d"
line 9 column 122 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&d"
line 10 column 116 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&d"
line 10 column 121 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&d"
line 11 column 116 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&d"
line 11 column 121 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity "&d"
line 46 column 1 - Warning: <form> isn't allowed in <table> elements
line 47 column 1 - Warning: missing </form> before <tbody>
line 48 column 1 - Warning: inserting implicit <table>
line 58 column 204 - Error: discarding unexpected </form>
line 59 column 1 - Warning: <form> isn't allowed in <table> elements
line 60 column 1 - Warning: <form> shouldn't be nested
line 60 column 1 - Warning: missing </form> before <tbody>
line 61 column 1 - Warning: inserting implicit <table>
line 63 column 653 - Error: discarding unexpected </form>
line 60 column 1 - Warning: missing </form>
line 63 column 668 - Error: discarding unexpected </td>
line 63 column 673 - Error: discarding unexpected </tr>
line 63 column 678 - Error: discarding unexpected </tbody>
line 85 column 1 - Warning: <form> isn't allowed in <table> elements
line 86 column 1 - Warning: <form> shouldn't be nested
line 86 column 1 - Warning: missing </form> before <tbody>
line 89 column 1 - Warning: inserting implicit <table>
line 102 column 207 - Error: discarding unexpected </form>

**TheHegemon** · 01-06-2007, 05:30 PM

i like how it looks it just took a while to load idk what you could do to fix that but it would help if you could.
But overall i think it looks good

**Mystic Rose** · 01-06-2007, 06:48 PM

I like it, easy to read & not to over crowded

**adrian88** · 01-06-2007, 07:47 PM

i like it.. good design

but just curious

how do u get traffic to your site??

**ren** · 01-06-2007, 10:57 PM

What you have now is pretty good. Just a couple of comments around SEO.

Try to come up with different titles for each page. The current "Free marketplace for your web site design" is a good title, but you don't want to use it on all pages (except home to be exact). Basically you need to do some keyword research and optimize each of your page, starting with the title.

If you know mod_rewrite, it would be nice to have some "prettier" url than you have it now.

Good luck!

**tjtravis** · 01-06-2007, 11:31 PM

I like it but you should require registration before you post a project and incorporate a ranking system

**charlesgan** · 01-07-2007, 12:04 AM

a quick view of the site, u still need effort on these:

1) design: still need some work. espacially the background of site and table.
2) keyword optimization. seo
3) adsense ads

**travelagent** · 01-07-2007, 12:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by charlesgan

a quick view of the site, u still need effort on these:

1) design: still need some work. espacially the background of site and table.
2) keyword optimization. seo
3) adsense ads

I'm assuming you don't know a whole lot about Freelance programmers, do you? Do a Google search using those 2 keywords, and you'll see that this site falls right in line with the rest of them -- especially his keywords, which target a specific audience.

**Mohab** · 01-07-2007, 02:35 AM

One point I immedietly noticed:

The text is tooo small

**dhweb** · 01-07-2007, 06:03 AM

Classic but clean, a bit slow to open

**Malcolm** · 01-07-2007, 06:35 AM

It's a good site, honstly I think it need more color....

**aldor** · 01-07-2007, 08:59 AM

The overall design and colour are great.
I noticed that a previous post mentions that the text is too small. Personally I don't think is so, but there is no way to alter this.
You have taken a lot of trouble to produce a good design by why oh why have used table instead of CSS. In the long term you will find CSS well worth the time to master.

**jellybabys** · 01-07-2007, 09:23 AM

Very clean and tidy, a tad slow loading but ive seen a lot slower.

Well done and good luck : )

**SimpleLance.Com** · 01-07-2007, 06:16 PM

Wow than you for all the input i have been reading it all through and come up with some modifications to make.

I will post once i have made the modifications.

One question what is mod_rewrite to make url prettier?