25 Oct 03 - 02:30 PM (#1041690) Subject: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: George Papavgeris After your helpful comments of MKI, and with all content now in place (including photo galleries, lyrics and soundbites), my website now awaits your visit and pleasure. It is here. Grateful for comments on performance and additional content you'd like to see. I would also appreciate some advice on what meta tags to add, so that it will show up on search engines. |
25 Oct 03 - 02:46 PM (#1041696) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: Leadfingers Thats an improvement on Number one George.Definately points for effort |
26 Oct 03 - 10:18 AM (#1041998) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: treewind Stunning! Two niggles:
Then it'll be perfect! (I love the pictures!) Anahata |
27 Oct 03 - 03:14 AM (#1042358) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: Hamish Meta tags? Try description and keywords. Although the search engines have different algorithms for prioritising hits. Google, for instance, uses the number of other sites which link to it. And has a clever way of knowing which of those sites are (more) worth taking notice of. It's important to have a good relevant title (which you do) cos that's what's shown in the search hit list. And it can help some searches to use tags with the important words to (which you don't) - but not for Google (I think). |
27 Oct 03 - 09:22 AM (#1042512) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: George Papavgeris OK, the soundfiles are MP3s now, and the album images resized. I am starting to also resize some of the pics in the Photos section. I also added some more info on the Contents page. And I have had lots of wonderful advice on meta tags, which I will implement in the next day or so. |
27 Oct 03 - 12:56 PM (#1042665) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: treewind Can't see the album pictures at all now! Are you sure you've got the files uploaded, in the right directory, capitalization right? CLTCoversmall.JPG for instantace... Definitely says not found. (Note: different capitalizatoon from the actual file name will work locally on Windows, but it won't work on the web which is case sensitive, or at least most web servers are) Anahata |
27 Oct 03 - 01:58 PM (#1042703) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: George Papavgeris They're definitely there, Anahata. I was tidying up (renaming files to get rid of spaces) and re-uploaded the whole site. It took abt 30 mins, and you must have hit on it half way. Check now. |
27 Oct 03 - 02:04 PM (#1042709) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: C-flat The site looks great. I really enjoyed listening to the sound files and browsing the lyrics. Some terrific songs there. C-flat(your most recent fan) |
28 Oct 03 - 05:14 AM (#1043051) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: Hamish yep - that capitalisation thing's a b****r. I didn't know about it when I set up "Tudor.htm" (sic. and I am. Sick, that is.) And now I'm stuck with it. Best to keep to all lower case and no embedded spaces (but you know that now). Best to avoid special characters, too. 0-9, a-z are all safe, and some others, too. But definitley not ampersand, colon, fullstop and quite a few others. |
28 Oct 03 - 05:21 AM (#1043055) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: George Papavgeris Surely, capitalisation shouldn't be a problem if you take the filenames on from "browse". Only if you type them in manually can mistakes occur. |
28 Oct 03 - 05:55 AM (#1043063) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: treewind Spot on about filenames from browse. If your software enables you to do it that way, it's a lot safer. My method tends to involve more typing, and I'm used to an environment where names tend to be lower case and spaces are a pain, so I follow Hamish's guidelines. You seem to be right about being in the middle of an update when I looked. It all looks great now. The album cover images are about 10k which is a good size. Anahat |
28 Oct 03 - 06:29 AM (#1043072) Subject: RE: El Greko's Website MKII up and running From: The Fooles Troupe As for lower case fimenames and spaces, special characters... I started back in 1996 with DOS format filenames after some hassles with various older systems (non-windows) on the net having hassles with my clever windows style filenames - I then tried to only use UPPERCASE 8.3 (DOS format) file names i.e. FOOLESHM.HTM for that reason. Windows carefully translates filenames like these into its own fooleshm.htm or Fooleshm.htm anyway... Things may have improved nowadays with fewer people with older incompatible systems... Metatags -- ahhh, that's a nest of worms - first consider why do you want to have the code generator name and all that sort of stuff taking up page real estate - it slows down the loading, and who is going to search for your page by all that anyway? You might want your name... maybe date of last edit - but why not put that in the visible text content at the bottom of the page... Two useful ones... I had to substitute the square for the broken brackets to get this message past Cerebus... :- ) [meta name="description" http-equiv="description" Content="...."] is useful for most search engines and [meta name="classification" http-equiv="classification" content="...."] is worth consideration. The content... well... pick words that will help people locate you - you also should consider some common misspellings for certain words too - although judging by some of the misspellings I have seen on the Mudcat - trying too hard that way lies madness... :-) If you become known for something unique - use that word too - some search engines ignore things if you have too many words, or try to be clever and repeat words. If you want to play the rankings game - ah, that's another matter... :-) Robin |