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

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,

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

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.

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?

Youve been sailing for 2 years months?

kool page keep it up!

crawf said...

I continue to love your work.

You have to, its your job

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.

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