[kitchenman]

hi my first attempt please let me know what you think and any suggestions you might have, steve www.hfhimprovements.co.uk

[solaris]

Hi Steve,

A few thoughts:

A entirely image-based site means that if anyone has images turned off they will see nothing. It also means that search engines like Google cannot index the textual content of your site - meaning you have little chance of being found through them. Finally, it means that people cannot resize fonts to suit their sight - very bad from an accessibility point of view.

So I would suggest that as a first step you need to do away with those images and use real text.

[Dvotee]

I second what Samir has said and also mentioned it in my other post to you.

I feel you have the groundwork of a good site there but need to tweak it in certain places to move it forward.

[jnovak]

As explained in the thread you started under "General Chat", http://forum.xilo.net/general-chat/1...advertise.html and here... you have effectively created an "invisible" site, as far as the search engines go !

That is because search-engines basically cant "see" or index images on webpages... unless they have text "attached" to them via what is called an Alt-tag.

So the old saying "a picture speaks a thousand words", for search-engines translates to ... "a picture speaks zero words" .

Bit of Background Explanation
Basically the way search-engines "find" your site is by using the TEXT in it, meaning the words/phrases on your page's and analysing them. They create an "index" of words and phrases from your site... sort of like a phone-directory, but not just indexed alphabetically... but in all kinds of different ways.

So when someone types in some "keywords" in the Google search-box for example. The search-engine then takes these and tries to "match" them to the huge "index" of words/phrases they have stored on their HUGE database, for all the multitude of websites!

They do this to try and deliver to the "searcher" the websites, that in their view, contain words/phrases that closest "match" the words/terms that were originally typed in the search-box.

I hope this is making sense and explaining to you how important it is to include as much relevant and useful "visible" text... on your webpages. Images are of course important as well, but putting the important text into images... as you have done, is a definite no-no .