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[roondog]

This site is for an amateur dramatics company. let me know what you think. Its not completely finished yet but at a stage where i'd like to get opinions.
This is the site (http://www.roondogid.co.uk/test/exit)

Thanks

[BrettNooyen]

Couple things I noticed:

I tend to lose myself in your navigation up top. When I click on About it goes away from the navigation area, and there is no title on the page. So I really don't know that I'm on the ABOUT section.

What i'd recommend with that is keeping the "About" up in the navigation area, but maybe styling it in a different way so that the user realizes they are on that page. Also, adding a page title above the paragraph text would be ideal.

I would do that for all pages similiar to the About page.

Also where you have the Exit members listed, I'd make their photos clickable.

[dtm32236]

i agree with BrettNooyen, the navigation should NEVER change. This will confuse many users... as Brett suggested, leave all the links there always, but change the color of it, or make it bold or something when you're on the corresponding page. (and you ALWAYS want a "Home" link, no matter what).

Also, the "© Exit Theatre Co-op 2001 - 2008" is hard to read, I think that it could use a little more contrast.

Your title is the same on every page. You want this to be unique to every page. And the <title> should be the first thing under <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" />.

And from an SEO (search engine optimization) perspective, you shouldn't have a "links" link. I'll assume that you'll list a bunch of other site's links there (maybe in exchange for having yours on their site). Although this used to work to get your rank up, search engines have [very successfully] made efforts to find these types of things and realize that it's 'the easy way out'. The won't rank you or your 'affiliates' any higher for this.

SEs (search engines) are looking for relevant links within relevant content. They look for links within paragraphs of text, and links that go to a site that is highly relevant to the paragraph it's contained in. This is how you get better rankings.

Overall, the site looks really nice, and it's built very well. Good job with it.

[TJ111]

namerservers down

[roondog]

Thanks for the suggestions. I've implemented them now.

[BrettNooyen]

Website is a lot more usable now, one minor thing I'd switch up.

It looks like your copyright text is the same color as your hyperlinks, would could lead visitor's to believe that it is clickable. For this copyright text I would choose a new color from the palette you are using, something that hasn't already been branded to a link.

[WebJoel]

Wow, -well done. No problems in the code, easy to read, looks good.

I might markup the "<title></title>" a bity more than this:
<title>Exit Home</title>
These words are too common, -you want to place your BRAND in here, 5 or 6 words maximum, to have something for 'bots to index.
I'd use :
<title>Exit Theatre Co-Op - Home</title>
or something like this, that people might actually SEARCH for. "Exit Home" is too vague, like "My Site".

Overall, well-done!