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Created by jord070 > 9 months ago, 23 Mar 2008
jord070
WA, 1109 posts
23 Mar 2008 2:05PM
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hey guys, just been looking at my website(windsurfjournal.org) and did a bit of a make over, not so much in the overall format, but i changed the header image, the image page format, and the video page format,

could you guys have a look let me know what you think,

also bit short on videos for my webpage so if you guys have any. know of any cool ones could you let me know via here or my guest book, it would be much appreciated

KeepSailing
jordan
http://windsurfjournal.org

swoosh
QLD, 1927 posts
23 Mar 2008 3:15PM
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the bar across the top with the menu could probably be redone in like 5 minutes, and look twice as good, at the moment it is very grainy, and some of the letters are a bit indistinct, thou you can still read them fine.

the layout i think would look better if the whole thing was centred on the page, rather then all the way on the left, at least a bit more margin would make it look better. and generally most websites would have the banner on top of the menu, i.e. like seabreeze, so maybe you would wanna change the format there.

also probably wouldn't hurt to go up a font size or 2 on the text in the body.

*edit* here i had a quick play with it

jord070
WA, 1109 posts
23 Mar 2008 2:39PM
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SH!T that looks alot better,

yeah i will do something like that
thanks

jord070
WA, 1109 posts
23 Mar 2008 11:29PM
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just wondering if any one knows how to get a webpage to be in googles search results, i googled it but google doesnt like to tell us how to get our page up,

paddymac
WA, 937 posts
23 Mar 2008 11:35PM
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Hi Jordo, good effort! One easy thing to make it a bit more polished is consistency in your styles. You've got a bit of a mix of style 3 & style 4 on your home page which are different font sizes (style 4 - font-size: x-small). Easy fix!

Cheers, P

nebbian
WA, 6277 posts
23 Mar 2008 11:50PM
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You can submit your site to google here:

accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=sitemaps&passive=1209600&continue=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url&followup=https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url

However this doesn't have a lot of effect. The best way to get your site higher up in the rankings is to get lots of other sites to link to it using the same piece of text. For example, Seabreeze uses the phrase "Live weather and windsurfing forums" for a lot of the links, so when you type "live weather windsurfing forums" into google, seabreeze pops up as the first link.

As for rankings, Google uses a sophisticated algorithm called "PageRank". (Note, it's called that because the guy who wrote it was called Larry Page, not because it ranks pages).
Here's a brief rundown:
www.webworkshop.net/pagerank.html

hth

evlPanda
NSW, 9203 posts
24 Mar 2008 12:36PM
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If you were about to start your site I'd recommend simply using a free blog tool, such as wordpress.org/

They will pretty much do everything you want for your personal site, no need for web designers. You can pick from a number of templates and plug-ins, 1,700 at last count.

Here's an example of a word-press site: www.aus120.com/

You can still keep windsurfjournal.org

Seabreeze turns up very high on Google's page rankings. I *think (someone correct me) that simply having seabreeze link to your site it will move up the rankings. The signoff you are now using, with your site url, is a link to your site from seabreeze

jord070
WA, 1109 posts
31 Mar 2008 4:00PM
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ok guys well i have been thinking about the new layout, and i thought my webpage looks a little **** so thought i would try make on in photo shop so after 2 weeks or how everlong its been i have come up with this kind of layout.



so what do u think.

arancini
WA, 373 posts
31 Mar 2008 4:10PM
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Hi Jordo, Good job so far, however another thing is to check your spelling, (calendar). Im not the worlds best speller, but I reckon you need to get it right on a web page. Dont mean to seem petty, just trying constructive criticism.

dism
NSW, 660 posts
31 Mar 2008 7:11PM
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Looks pretty mad Jordo

2 Things: - less words or dot points instead for the worlds down bottom left
- use "arse" not "ass" since your page is meant to be an Aussie account, right?

jord070
WA, 1109 posts
31 Mar 2008 4:24PM
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oh yeah calender is removed, and ass is is arse is out.

MavericK040
WA, 583 posts
31 Mar 2008 7:34PM
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Youve been sailing for 2 years months?

kool page keep it up!

crawf
WA, 43 posts
1 Apr 2008 8:39PM
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I continue to love your work.

Greenroom
WA, 7608 posts
1 Apr 2008 9:09PM
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crawf said...

I continue to love your work.

You have to, its your job

jord070
WA, 1109 posts
1 Apr 2008 10:03PM
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web is goin to be down for the next day or 2 as im uploading new format,

and greenroom great comment

sick_em_rex
NSW, 1600 posts
2 Apr 2008 9:43AM
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Jordo the best way to have your site come up on searches is to optimise its content. There is an art to this and there are companies set up that specifically deal with such things. Basically each page has to have certain keywords that relate to what people are searching for. There are specific spots on the page to have these keywords. My company has many different sites and pages on the net and we pay a lot of money to get them optimised so they come up in the top 5 of free google searches.
Steer away from flash content, google doesn't like it.
Your other option is to put it up as a sponsored link but that will cost you a daily fee plus you pay for each time someone clicks on your link.
One other sneaky way to get yourself up the list is to have a lot of people have a link to your page/website on their page/website. This is frowned upon however by google and if they catch you they will log your IP address and quite possibly black ban you.

evlPanda
NSW, 9203 posts
2 Apr 2008 10:28AM
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CONTENT. Why are people going to visit more than once?

This is the most important aspect.

I'd come back to your site to check on how you are progressing as we started windsurfing about the same time (much faster than me by the looks of it). Stuff like "Landed my first Vulcan today!", "Broke 30 knots!" etc.

I'd also come back to see photos, especially of trips to some WA locales.

(Some site about writing skills, how to engage your audience etc.: copyblogger.com/)

dism
NSW, 660 posts
2 Apr 2008 1:40PM
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sick_em_rex said...

Jordo the best way to have your site come up on searches is to optimise its content. There is an art to this and there are companies set up that specifically deal with such things. Basically each page has to have certain keywords that relate to what people are searching for. There are specific spots on the page to have these keywords. My company has many different sites and pages on the net and we pay a lot of money to get them optimised so they come up in the top 5 of free google searches.


Don't know how much control over the code of your page you have, but to get hits on your site (get google to know your keywords) you need to add metatags, this is the main keywords of your site maybe 'windsurfing, jordo, WA, ...' you add them in the 'head' sections of code in html

To see how seabreeze pulls this off, right click on this page and select 'view page source', see below for their metadata...

SEABREEZES CODE:
<html>

<head>
<title>Seabreeze Forums!</title>
<META name="description" content="7 day forecasts to go kitesurfing, windsurfing, surf and fish by! Kitesurfing and Windsurfing 2nd hand gear listings. Kitesurfing and Windsurfing Forums">
<META name="keywords" content="kitesurfing, kitesurf, kiteboard, kiteboarding, windsurf, windsurfing, surf, fishing, sailing, boating, marine, forecast, weather, weather report, perth weat ....(cont.)


Goodluck Jordo,
Deano



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