Im New Need Help
hiya
and hello to all
im recentley updateing my website as im about to start a big advertising campaign for my disco company. 90% of the advertising is going to be web based such as yell.com im also going to pay a company to make sure that my web site is on over 400 search engines.
ive got loads of questions so please bear with me.
im using macromedia dreamweaver to design my web site and although ive had a little experience in web design im getting rather lost in this programme.
i have uploaded my first draft of my web site and it can be viewed at
uvdiscos.co.uk
loads of problems with it, first of all the booking page has a form on it but im unsure of how to make it send the completed form to my webmail. it comes up with an error.
also i dont know how to make my web site have key words, to be found by a search eninge.
any help or advice you can give me on these matters would be greatley appreciated.
Damian
chrishirst posted this at 16:47 — 27th June 2005.
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You'll be wasting your money. There aren't 400 search engines, there aren't even 40. All you'll end up with is a lighter wallet and spam emails for the rest of your life on the internet.
Forget rankings totally for that site until it has been designed to be search engine friendly. The way the frames are set up makes it totally invisible to crawlers.
Here an idea of how it would look Poodle Predictor. Not very interesting really.
You need some serious SEO so maybe start here
Then move on to copywriting, word research, link building, etc etc.
Chris
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woogie_theking posted this at 17:01 — 27th June 2005.
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like i said its only a first draft im not looking for a finished item. just a basic layout and to make sure everything works right.
as for the search engins it was somthing that my web hosting was advertising. i thought it sounded like a good idea. but hey ho what do i know.
what are crawlers ????
woogie_theking posted this at 17:19 — 27th June 2005.
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after looking through this forum and trying to understand some of what you lot talk about ive decided that im in way over my head and if someone would like a project of guiding me through building a decent web site please get in touch.
woogie_theking posted this at 17:45 — 27th June 2005.
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http://www.empire-djs.co.uk/
this is the kind of web site that im looking to achive
steve40 posted this at 17:46 — 27th June 2005.
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Pre-built templates are really not the way to go. Frames are not really the way to go. I especially do not like sites, with scrolling center frames. It restricts the viewing area to much.
Jump around on the web, and read a few HTML tutorials and keep trying until you get it. How do you think the rest of us did it, it's not a natural talent. If you learn what tags make a simple page first, it's just like building a wall brick, on brick. I wouldn`t throw in the towel, and give up.
steve40 posted this at 17:51 — 27th June 2005.
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I would be looking to do better than THAT site. It's full of mistakes, and errors. He's combined tables, and CSS, and done a bad job at that. It would be better to use one, or the other alone.
woogie_theking posted this at 17:53 — 27th June 2005.
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just the look of the site,
i wouldnt have a clue where to start.
steve40 posted this at 18:08 — 27th June 2005.
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One good way is to go around, and look at several kinds of web-sites. Right click on the screen, and choose view source; see how others have done it. That's exactly what I did at first. Go to "html goodies" this site starts at the very basics, and teaches you what is going on. It doesn't take long to learn how to build a simple site, and with perseverance not long to go higher.
I could build the site you are talking about with just very simple code, and tables, and it would look just like it.
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