New Website
myglutenfreenj
attention. The address is www.myglutenfreenj.com We have information
that we feel will be valuable to those who dont live in New Jersey
even such as product reviews and gluten free menus and email responses
from top chain restaurants. I hope it helps to provide great
information to those in this group. If there are any suggestions you
would like to make feel free to email myself personally at
and...@myglutenfreenj.com Thanks for your time!
Don Wiss
>I just wanted to take a moment to bring a new website to everyone's
>attention. The address is www.myglutenfreenj.com
Can you please fix your website? It is annoying to have to scroll back and
forth to read the page. And you don't have that much content that it has to
be so wide. Graphic designers often have screens that are larger than web
surfers and design impractical layouts. Screens should never be wider than
800 pixels.
The site has lots of other problems, like the use of images to display text
(can't be indexed by search engines), and the lack of any meta tags useful
to search engines. I gather you are a graphic designer and not a web
programmer?
Then there is the hyperbole. The site claims to be "Most Popular Website
About Being Gluten Free in New Jersey." Considering that the domain was
only registered on 2009-08-05 this is bit of a stretch. Have you had your
first 100 visitors yet?
Don <www.donwiss.com> (e-mail link at home page bottom).
Joesepi
Point made though. The text gets too small when the pixels reach monitor
size 1920 pixels.
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Don Wiss
>OMG 800 pixesl? You need a new monitor for the last decade or so...LOL
>
>Point made though. The text gets too small when the pixels reach monitor
>size 1920 pixels.
It is not that the monitor width is the limiting factor, but do you really
use your browser at full screen and not in a window with other windows open
at the same time? 800 pixels wide is ample to design a page, or design it
properly and have it resize when the window get wider.
Trawley Trash
> OMG 800 pixesl? You need a new monitor for the last decade or
> so...LOL
It is well known that short
lines of text are easier to
read. This is why newspapers
and magazines are laid out in
columns. The whole point of
HTML was to allow the reader
to adjust the view for his own
ease. Unfortunately there are
a whole lot of people who never
get this point, and they insist
on giving us web pages full of
distracting oversize graphics
that obscure what little
information is on their page.
Most likely this is because they
can't read very well themselves.
Eight hundred pixels is far too
wide. Four hundred is much
better. Oops, I forgot. We
can't talk about pixels any more.
It has to be inches because the
net has been taken over by idiots
who can't understand abstract
concepts. Instead of complaining
about unreadable text we should
all of us want to fill up our
ever shrinking living space
with forty inch (100 centimeter or
centicentimeter) monitors so we
can better appreciate killer
graphics!
Here is a helpful link that should
help you better appreciate web design:
http://www.users.nac.net/falken/annoying/graphics.html
goodbye
myglutenfreenj
I do the work 100% based on a template and can not control the width
of the page in that respect. I will contact my host provider though
and see if I can fix that. You would be correct in that I am more of a
graphics guy. As far as my claim to be "Most Popular Website About
Being Gluten Free in New Jersey" that claim is true as I have been in
contact with those that have gluten free sites centered around New
Jersey and 100 people is our daily goal and I assure you we have
surpassed MANY more than that therefore. Metatags are coming soon by
the way I have a friend who is a wiz with that so I am letting him do
that for me. I appreciate your tips as you seem to be much more versed
in web page design than I.
Don Wiss
>I do the work 100% based on a template and can not control the width
>of the page in that respect.
Oh. I have never used a template. All my pages are hand coded in a simple
way. A good template should have a width setting someplace.
> I will contact my host provider though
>and see if I can fix that. You would be correct in that I am more of a
>graphics guy.
And I'm a programmer.
> I appreciate your tips as you seem to be much more versed
>in web page design than I.
My first page was 14 1/2 years ago. For meta tags and search optimization
(SEO) you can google and learn. That template must have a place for meta
tags. They ones you care are about are, in order: title, description, key
words.
One thing I now do is validate my pages. Being hand coded I can tweak them
to get them to pass with no errors. Here's yours:
You may, or may not, be able to do anything about them. But most web sites
have errors. And big ones, like the front page of the NY Times, have lots
more errors than yours.
Joesepi
pretty standard. More than that it becomes crowded on my 56" monitor anyway.
Got to get me a projection unit and 10' ceiilings next...LOL
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