Website Review

[farrhad16]

i need you to review my website
please point out any errors
and good points are also welcome :P

I know there is an error in the navigation bar so exclude it

www.aviationearth.com

[dtm32236]

here's a few errors:

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
<META name="y_key" content="bda2f275b8a28d46" />
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="AviationEarth the growing aviation database, get all the aircraft/aviation data you need" />
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="aviation,earth,aircraft,airplane,aeroplane,airplanes,manufacturers,data,jet" />
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW" />
<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="1 days"/>
<META NAME="RATING" CONTENT="general" />
<META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="Copyright © 2008 Farrhad A, all rights reserved" />
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="Farrhad" />
<META NAME="CONTACT_ADDR"="farrhad@aviationearth.com" />
<META NAME="DISTRIBUTION" CONTENT="Global" />
<META NAME="RESOURCE-TYPE" CONTENT="document" />

these all need to be closed if you're using XHTML doctype... and everything must be lowercase with the doctype too.

and what is this???
<strITisticTAFBCC = "farrhad@aviationearth.com";>

validate your page (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aviationearth.com%2F)

anyway - to the site itself...

it's a nice color scheme and somewhat simple navigation - although i don't like how it changes after the first click.

i think that your title needs to be more emphasized, and the site needs to be described better... "Search for data using the Aviation Earth search engine"... search for what? what kind of data?

[b3yond]

I like the site, other than the errors mentioned by dmt I would consolidate the "Theory" page to show all your items in a smaller area. Everything on your site "could" show up without the user having to scroll down. I am using a resolution of 1280x1024, always find it a pain to have to scroll down to read content that could show up on main screen.

Maybe move the search bar up to position directly under the top nav bar div.

The white background on the contact page hurt me eyes somewhat, too bright. Try the green color you used for the top div, where your title sets.

Enlarge the pic on your main page to come flush with your navigation.

On your download page use tables or div's to separate the wallpapers from the screensavers. Maybe place the description text below the pictures, and ensure they all align in together in a more orderly fashion.

Hope this helps some, good job.

b3yond

[farrhad16]

Thanks a lot dtm and b3yond :)

have implemented the download page suggestion
the search bar suggestion

<strITisticTAFBCC = "farrhad@aviationearth.com";>

that is for the tell a friend script

i will also change the contact page background

please keep dropping your suggestions

[smyhre]

I think it is a great layout so far but you have some text under the copyright info which is hardly readable with a white background and green letters like the background color. I don't know if that is suppose to be there but as I said its practically unreadable. The title really seems small compared with the space it is in. and the picture seems a little odd being that it isn't aligned with the right side of the side navigation.

Nice colors though I think they go well together.

[farrhad16]

thanks for your reply smyhre
the text you mentioned was actually ment to be invisible it was what someone recommended wrt the meta tags

and i have resized the logo according to what you mentioned

thanks and do keep posting

[smyhre]

Well you definitely fixed the text thing at the bottom. I don't know if you are testing the layout in FF or Safari but I'm also seeing some variation in how the left column is viewed. In FF the column is actually wider then the header image and in safari the image is wider then the column. I'm thinking that the column rules need to be looked at to fix that.

<td colspan="3" rowspan="2"><img src="Aviation-Earth-logo.gif" alt="AViation Earth logo" width="214" height="201" /></td>

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="205" id="navigation">

Hmmm well I never liked tables for a website layout but if thats what you want then go ahead. Above I bolded the areas which might be misaligning the image and the column. The widths are different and if you want it aligned they should probably be the same. And placing an actual unit of measure in there might help as well (ie. px, em, cm, ...) Otherwise things might be a little unstable for measure across browsers.

[dtm32236]

"flight, aircraft, aviation, jet, engine, aerodynamics, aeroplane, airplane, speed, airspeed, indicator, manufacturer, number, throttle, thrust, airplanes, mach

flight, aircraft, aviation, jet, engine, aerodynamics, aeroplane, airplane, speed, airspeed, indicator, manufacturer, number, throttle, thrust, airplanes, mach, manufacturers"

the text you mentioned was actually ment to be invisible it was what someone recommended wrt the meta tags

you really need to re-evaluate who you're getting your advice from.

google, and many other search engines look for hidden text like this.... they call it "keyword stuffing" or "keyword spamming" - whatever it is - but they will flag your site, and remove it from the search engine index when it notices some text that's the same (or very similar) to the color of the background.

check out this blog by Matt Cutts, the head of the Google Webspam team:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-mistakes-not-checking-your-site/

[Highway]

From a design point of view I would have the left nav banner the same width as the picture graphic.

With the main picture graphic it looks a bit dull (color wise) I would bring it into PhotoShop or similar, lighten it up first then give it a healthy dose of saturation to 'color' it up a bit.

Also it would be more effective if the left nav banner was static and stayed put when you clicked on a link, leaving the content always to the right - bit confusing I reckon.

Other than that I quite liked it.