www.redcellpaintball.com

Redcell · Post by **Redcell** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:04 pm

I would like to get our site all polished up for SEO. Can someone please take a look at it and make some suggestions? We are using 5.5 and I am not sure what else I can do to make the site more SEO ready. I was also wondering about a site map, do we need to have a link to one on our home page? I am kind of a layman when it comes to this stuff, so any suggestions will help.
Thanks
Ian

http://www.redcellpaintball.com

We would also appreciate an all out critique (BE HONEST) while we are in this forum!

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:53 am

Hello Nick,

Be sure you have product descriptions for all your products, attempt to work your keywords into each product description and repeat the product title 3 or more times in the product description to improve the density of the page overall.

Missing product description:
http://www.redcellpaintball.com/WDP-Ang ... 3C111.aspx
http://www.redcellpaintball.com/Extreme ... 1C136.aspx

I think your category titles are good generic search terms.

If you haven't already ..add your site to topsites.ablecommerce.com to help page rank a bit.

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 1:04 am

Hello Nick,

On the login.aspx page the link to the sign-in image is a fully qualified http:// reference which causes the mixed mode ssl error message.

"http://www.redcellpaintball.com/images/ ... ign_in.gif"

should be changed to just:

"/images/button_sign_in.gif"

Redcell · Post by **Redcell** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:10 pm

Anyone else? What does everyone think about the look and feel?

Epoch Online · Post by **Epoch Online** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:25 pm

The red on the grey is sometimes hard to see.

Are most of your clients on 1024x768? If they aren't they will have to scroll to see the section on the right.

For continuity I would suggest you put a box border around the main content on the front page.

Other wise you have a nice site.

Post by **Shopping Cart Admin** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 12:28 am

Display Resolution:

The current trend is that more and more computers are using a screen size of 1024x768 pixels:

January 2005:

Higher 13%
1024x768 53%
800x600 29% (This will take a 'nose dive next xmas' (< 20%)
640x480 0%
Unknown 5%

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

If designing a site, which will 'stand' for the next 2 or 3 years then 1024x768 is a strong possiblity for a site design. Designing to a maximum width of 776 is the 'current' standards.

NC Software · Post by **NC Software** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:58 am

Yes, I was facing this dilemma as well with my new sites now in progress. My choices were 1) Full Width "Liquid", 2) Fixed Width 800x600, or 3) Fixed Width 1024x768.

I have always been a proponent of full width but I am choosing fixed width in the next series to instill discipline in page layout. My current site is great but when you size it down it starts looking messy. I used 1280x1024 here and tend to design "for me" but naturally, the rest of the world isn't at my resolution. Yes, 1024x768 is moving towards the majority rapidly. When Longhorn ships (this decade??) the minimum resolution on that platform is 1024x768.

So I had to choose between 1024x768 or 800x600 and I went with the latter. I know many of my customers still use the lower resolution and when setting up a PHP forum people were bitching when they saw side to side scrolling (aka 800x600 users) so I realize there are still a lot of those out there. I'll go with 800x now and move up to 1024x later. Some sites are adding a "fourth column" if you will, to the far right, by detecting the screen width with javascript. So there are many ways to skin this cat.

Is this really important? No, not in my opinion. What I am focusing on is a web site that is not fatiguing, one that allows people to find what they need, see it clearly and with big fonts, and aesthetically pleasing.

Stay tuned...new sites are in progress now with my new AC store build.