Thank you for your help -- Website Review

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Dear Friends,

I was wondering if you could take a few minutes and have a look at my website www.keatsschool.com both from the perspective of web design and SEO.

Keats School is a Chinese language school in Kunming, China.

Any opinion would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!

Best,
Mandy

www.keatsschool.com
Learn Chinese in China, Study Mandarin in China

Megan's picture

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There are some things you have done very well with this site. The front page text is very well written and does a good job of explaining the program and making it attractive to people. The photos show a sampling of what people will do in the program, and kind of "bring it to life".

I clicked on the "more" link after the description of the vacation package on the home page, and was brought to a page inviting me to join the students association. This is confusing and not what I expected. Where is the information about the vacation package? Is there a vacation package? I'm confused (and if I was a real potential customer I would leave the site at this point, feeling disappointed and frustrated).

The design of this site could use some work. I'm not keen on the yellowey-green background colour, and the orange navigation block at the top is just strange. This has sort of a "home made" look to it, which doesn't look very professional.

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Thank you, Megan! Your comments really help a lot and I have just fixed the problem. Again, thank you for your thoughtful comments. Smiling

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Hi Mandy,

whilst i know very little about SEO (I'm still learning) I just wanted to make a few comments on your site in general.

I would agree with Megan regards to the colours of the site, the orange box at the top looks a little out of place.

I do like the way the front page is set out it gives good details and the photos really help with the message your trying to get across.

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Thank you! I appreciate it! Smiling

They have: 4 posts

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HI,mandy, from China???
HOHO,貌似你在云南哇~~~~抱歉,我的鸟文没你的好~~~一点网站意见

1: 首页加上LOGO, 这对品牌比较重要 learn chinese in China 换个字体吧~~

2: and also the logo on the inner pages~~~ to make the color same with the who background, or change the BG color to make it more smooth~~~

3: and change the bang-bang images on this page
http://www.keatsschool.org/new/keats.html, too many burres~~~~
hope you can understand what I said Smiling

4: why there is just a pic on the small-class page~~~ and the contents on the one-on-one seems nothing about your class, it's all about your school, but not the class and lessons~~~ you should put these into the about-us page~~~

5: 口语很好,吐字也清晰,但是做老外的广告,是不是换个老外做个纯正鸟语的professional video?????

个人意见,有时间到苏州联系哈~~~ QQ 5163858

They have: 5 posts

Joined: Nov 2010

I think the background color is a bit too much, maybe too bright or heavy. The multi-line navigation at the top turned me off immediately. It's hard to find what you're looking for and what all is there on the website. Maybe the less important (testimonials or job opportunities) links should be located somewhere else.

Also consider using a free html validating service (http://validator.w3.org/) to make sure your page appears exactly the same in all browsers (there are several errors in your code). That website will explain the errors and help you fix them.

They have: 13 posts

Joined: Dec 2010

Like other people's idea, i think a small problem is the color. It make the visitors feel uncomfortable when surfing on your site. It would be better if you can change you main colors with another one. And try to pay more attention on website structure. I think your website's structure is not good for doing SEO in near future. thanks

They have: 3 posts

Joined: Apr 2011

I think the layout of the website could use some work, especially the menu. You have too many items in the menu. You have 4 menus on top of each other is too much for one menu. It would be better if you would have a main item with a drop down for that main item.
The photos page confuses me. I am not sure why there are two sets of photos, one on the left, and the other on the right and the right one being larger images. I believe it would be nicer if the images were all similar in size and in one area on the page.
P.S. Your “Should I Eat at Keats” made me hungry!

They have: 4 posts

Joined: Apr 2011

Interesting website, lots of info.
I like that you have video testimonials, may be put frame around them.
Student comments pages could use a redesign, using a table doesn't look good.
I would make every comment something like this:
Name
Comments on teacher
(text here)
Comments on teaching
(text here)
Comments on school
(text here)

Cheers

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Your page loading speed is slow this will affect not good SEO.
URL page is not optimized completely
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They have: 48 posts

Joined: Apr 2011

To much link crowd around the site. You should use some opening menus ( drop down ) or re-arange the menu links.

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Really very sorry to say its not attractive. There is lot free Template is available in online kindly get visit it and try to update you site..... just search in google "sample website layout" its show you lot of website link which provide free template..... Smiling have a success

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The site is very informative and the size of the text is just right, but the background color is your main problem. A very light yellow would have been fine. The orange navigation menu at the top with various lines does not look good either.

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