Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5756144)

Is more like:
Like painting the 4th rd bridge, by the time youve finished someones invented a new type of paint-brush that makes it 50% faster to apply but 25% slower to learn !!!

Originally Posted by Mrs Jackaroo (Post 5756214)

Aint that the truth!!

I'll have to get some help from you son with a bit of PHP soon I reckon - designing a site for a friend of mine who needs to upload images and then preview them on a T shirt - I'm a bit slow on the PHP front at the moment though!

I use Adobe CS3 and love it! I've got a shelf full of books on each of the subjects / software and yet I was looking for a simple task in one of them yesterday and couldnt friggin find it anywhere! A quick search online and I was sorted............all that money on those books!!!! :curse:

So do you work in web for a living? You obviously know your stuff really well.

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5756309)

Ok :

http://www.dhtmlgoodies.com/scripts/...ag-drop-2.html

or perhaps this

http://truecolor.allayers.com/

All my scripts are on old pc ... argghh

Originally Posted by Mrs Jackaroo (Post 5756334)

You're a darlin! Thanks Ste - I'll check them out this evening :)

Originally Posted by gillysm (Post 5792918)

If any of you have been considering taking up Mrs Jackaroo's offer, DO IT NOW - she is now looking for a new project as she has finished building my website for me, so send her a PM.

You just need to know what you want it to look like and your content and Mrs J will do all the hard work building the site. She is a dream to work with, very tolerant and enthusiastic. I would recommend you take her up on her offer now as she will soon be turning this into her business and that means it'll cost you $

:):):):)

Thanks Rach:thumbup:

Originally Posted by fairbloodydinkum (Post 5756258)

From a $150 - 200 a year can get you a domain name and server in oz with all programs..forums..business stuff included...and be online in a week..

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5728372)

My sons the whizz..

How he does it beggars belief, as a wise man said in a ( Jackie Gleeson ) Smokey and the Bandit film... "there aint no way you came from my loins"

Originally Posted by Mrs Jackaroo (Post 5936376)

Well my first project is now live :)

www.brisbanebritsrentals.com

I really enjoyed doing this as it was definitely good practice!

Its pretty basic (which was how Gill wanted it) but I'm pleased with it :)

Sorry but the freebies are now no longer - I've got a few projects on the go now and am struggling a bit to keep up with them all now that I'm back at TAFE full time.

Originally Posted by aus2be_OH (Post 5936652)

Good looking site there. :thumbsup:

I'd recommend checking out the site below, downloading the resource files (a HTML & a CSS file) and deconstructing them to find out just how powerful CSS can be when designing a site.

http://www.csszengarden.com/

Using CSS is a great way to separate the design from the content. it can also help to make it easier for the Search Engines to find the content.

The site above was a great way for me to slim down email AD's for a few clients. i was usually able to reduce the email size by at least 50% by using CSS instead of tables. Even in this broadband world we have now, people are still soooo impatient when waiting for a site to load.

Keep up the good work.

Darren

Originally Posted by Mrs Jackaroo (Post 5938875)

Thanks for that Darren. Yep CSS is definitely very very useful. I'm starting to get better with it but I'm only 6 months into my course so it takes time.

This is the site I've put together now for TAFE http://www.richmondit.com.au/rach which I think is starting to get closer to my goal :) At the moment we've only worked with incorporating CSS within tables but I'm pushing to get them onto divs asap. I can code divs.....but using divs in Dreamweaver at the moment is proving a bit harder - I'll get there though :)

Thanks again

Rach

Originally Posted by CadburysFingers (Post 5936622)

He simply buys the templates off Template monster, then adapts them as do many people. ;) http://www.templatemonster.com/

Originally Posted by aus2be_OH (Post 5939063)

Not a big issue Rach but the rollovers on the above site don't work correctly in Safari on the Mac. I know it's only got about 5% market share compared to 75% for IE, but hey, I'm a Mac using and we have to fight our corner :p

Darren

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5939138)

Bloody good work !!!!! Rach

I would add the following syntax to your stylesheet

a {
outline: none;
}

Ste

Originally Posted by Mrs Jackaroo (Post 5939173)

Thanks Ste - so that will take the outline of the hover on links will it? no not the hover...the click?

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5939181)

Just been having a good look aver the site.

Havent looked at the code yet.

But its very slick, fast, and albeit there are a cpl of style issues , which are easily altered, it really is eye candy !

Be very proud of yourself.

Thats GOOD WORK !!!

I would hire you !

Ste:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5939185)

Now your a web designer extraordinaire ;)

Originally Posted by Mrs Jackaroo (Post 5936376)

Well my first project is now live :)

www.brisbanebritsrentals.com

I really enjoyed doing this as it was definitely good practice!

Its pretty basic (which was how Gill wanted it) but I'm pleased with it :)

Sorry but the freebies are now no longer - I've got a few projects on the go now and am struggling a bit to keep up with them all now that I'm back at TAFE full time.

Originally Posted by aus2be_OH (Post 5936652)

Good looking site there. :thumbsup:

Just wanted to thank you again Rach for doing such a fantastic job on my site, it's exactly what I wanted. :thumbsup: Good luck to you and your new business - you'll go far.

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5939185)

Just removes the unsightly outline around clicked links and images.

Looks a tad slicker.

IMO.

Some disagree, but try it... your choice at end of the day.

Now your a web designer extraordinaire ;)

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5939185)

Just removes the unsightly outline around clicked links and images.

Looks a tad slicker.

IMO.

Some disagree, but try it... your choice at end of the day.

Now your a web designer extraordinaire ;)

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5939252)

Just looked at your metas.



That looks a tad big for your keywords !

Plus you have repeated many words more than once , which can get you penalised.

Heres a Metas score for the page. You should be able to tweak it then.

Meta tags report for: http://www.brisbanebritsrentals.com/
meta tag length value
Title: 24 brisbane brits home page
Keywords: 986 Furnished accommodation Brisbane, Furnished accommodation Sunshine Coast, Furnished houses, furnished homes, furnished rentals, Fully furnished short term let, Short term furnished rentals, Short term furnished houses, Furnished Houses to let Brisbane, Furnished Houses to let Sunshine Coast, Rental accommodation in Brisbane northside, Rental accommodation in sunshine coast, Rental property in Sunshine Coast, Rental property in Brisbane northside, Queensland, Relocate, re-locate, Relocation Rental property in Australia, Rental properties in Australia, Australian holiday accommodation, Immigration to Brisbane, Immigration to sunshine coast, Immigrating to Brisbane,Immigrating to sunshine coast, Emigrating to Brisbane, Emigrating to Sunshine Coast, Expat rentals, Expat furnished accommodation, Expat furnished rentals, Brits in Brisbane, Poms in Brisbane, expat rental, xpats in australia, xpat rentals, x-pats in australia, x-pat rentals, x-pat accommodation, x-pats in bribane

Meta tags analysis.
Title: Title meta tag contains no errors.
This tag contains 24 characters.
Title relevancy to page content is excellent.
The Title relevancy to page content is 100%.
Description: Found no description meta tag.
The description meta tag is used by most of the search engines. Consider to add a description meta tag.
Keywords: This tag contains too many characters.
This tag contains 986 characters. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' web page. The maximum number of characters we recommend for this tag is 500.
This tag contains too many keywords.
This tag contains 38 keywords. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' web page. The maximum number of keywords we recommend for this tag is 25.
Keyword relevancy to page content is terrible. However, this is not necessarily bad if you have a lot of content. The most important factor is to have your keywords on the page a few times.
The keywords relevancy to page content is 0%.
Robots: Found no robots meta tag.
This tag is not really required but helps spiders to index the web page.
Author: Found no author meta tag.
This tag is not really required but helps for your (company) name recognizing.

Web page analysis.
The size of the web page.
The size of the web page is 5226 bytes.
The web page load time.
The web page load time is 1 seconds.

Your site displayed on a search engine page.
brisbane brits home page
http://www.brisbanebritsrentals.com/

Keywords found in the Anchor tags: Keyword - Times Found.
These are text links on your web page (include the 'alt' text from images in the links). These become more important by many search engines (for best results try to name them after your primary keywords).

things to do - 2
accommodation - 2
services - 2
contact us - 2
about us - 2
home - 2
links - 2
font media services - 1


Keywords found in the IMG Alt tags: Keyword - Times Found.
This is text found in the 'alt' tag from the images. For web pages with a lot of images those tags are important (for best results try to name them after your primary keywords).

brisbane brits logo - 1


Keywords found on page: Keyword - Times Found - Keyword Density.
These are keywords found on the web page. These are the keywords where the web page is target for (probably contain the most searches for this web page one of these keywords).

home - 6 - 3.66%
flash - 6 - 3.66%
download - 3 - 1.83%
shockwave - 3 - 1.83%
services - 3 - 1.83%
brisbane - 3 - 1.83%
images - 3 - 1.83%
accommodation - 3 - 1.83%
homes - 3 - 1.83%
code - 2 - 1.22%
brits - 2 - 1.22%
base - 2 - 1.22%
cab - 2 - 1.22%
version - 2 - 1.22%
index - 2 - 1.22%
things - 2 - 1.22%
http - 2 - 1.22%
media - 2 - 1.22%
links - 2 - 1.22%
contact - 2 - 1.22%



home services - 2 - 1.22%
services - 2 - 1.22%
links contact - 2 - 1.22%
accommodation things - 2 - 1.22%
index flash - 2 - 1.22%
things links - 2 - 1.22%
services accommodation - 2 - 1.22%
brisbane brits - 2 - 1.22%
images index - 2 - 1.22%



services accommodation things - 2 - 1.22%
images index flash - 2 - 1.22%
accommodation things links - 2 - 1.22%
things links contact - 2 - 1.22%
home services accommodation - 2 - 1.22%


URLs found in the page: URL - Times Found
Found 16 urls from where 9 unique.
http://www.brisbanebritsrentals.com/contact_us.php - 2
http://www.brisbanebritsrentals.com/services.html - 2
http://www.brisbanebritsrentals.com/about.html - 2
http://www.brisbanebritsrentals.com/accommodation.html - 2
http://www.brisbanebritsrentals.com/index.html - 2
http://www.brisbanebritsrentals.com/thingstodo.html - 2
http://www.brisbanebritsrentals.com/links.html - 2
http://www.fontmedia.com.au - 1
http://www.brisbanebritsrentals.com/style.css - 1

Originally Posted by Mrs Jackaroo (Post 5939262)

Cheers Ste - I'll get Gill on the case and then I'll make the changes :)

Gillysm........get on the case please :)

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5939416)

More than welcome.

Its easy critiquing, when you havent done all the hard work. Shes done a great job forya there.

psstt.. im not criticising btw :)

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5939416)

More than welcome.

Its easy critiquing, when you havent done all the hard work. Shes done a great job forya there.

psstt.. im not criticising btw :)

Originally Posted by Rhinotillexomaniac (Post 5939471)

ensure the words used appear in you page content also.
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Originally Posted by Mrs Jackaroo (Post 5939444)

Thanks Ste - I'm happy for any comments from you honestly. At the end of the day I want to make some money out of this so I want to get as good as I can. Working until midnight each night seems to be helping so far too!!! :rofl:

You may have missed one of my posts - can u recommend a site where I can get some more of these babies and other similar images?:

Originally Posted by Rhinotillexomaniac (Post 5939471)

I was always under the assumption that repeating (keywords) more than three times would incur penalties.

The relevancy of meta keywords is still hotly debated these days and it all comes down to this; if you have the time and the inclination, put them in, as it won't harm if you don't.

To my somewhat limited knowledge, Inktomi (Yahoo) is the only major engine that uses the keywords tag these days. Anyway aren't we migrating towards latent semantic indexing?

Half a dozen key phrases are the way to go and ensure the words used appear in you page content also.

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5939973)

On the whole tho, great little site.

Gill has the hard work now of marketing it !! So get submitting it !!

Originally Posted by Timber Floor Au (Post 5939973)

alt tags