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Offline pioneerx01Topic starter

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My first website made for general public
« on: July 26, 2010, 02:27:08 PM »
Hi,

I am relatively beginner web designer, and this is my first website that I actually took days to design code and research, and still growing. It has been about a year since I registered a domain and I am finally getting to a point of having decent content. This site is designed as beginners guide to everything HDTV. I could use some advice from the public or potential user. What do you like and mainly what do you dislike or like to see.

http://www.flatpaneltvinfo.com/

Slightly unrelated sub question:

I have a webmaster tool's account with Google and so far it is indexing only 2 sides out of my 35 (all in site map that is submitted). I have both www and non-www versions verified, I have no malware, or spam key-wording or any suggestions from Google. It has been like this for over an month now any ideas?
I started this website on word press, but left it due to limitations and designed my own site from scratch. I have included robot.txt to block the sub-pages that do not exist anymore, but Google still indexed some. I do have 404 forward set up.

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Re: My first website made for general public
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2010, 06:47:09 AM »
The design is average, but I guess this site is about content, rather than design. I really like it and I'd recommend this site to anyone who's buying a new TV (I even bookmarked it for myself  :)).
I wish there were more sites like this on the first pages of google search.

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Re: My first website made for general public
« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2010, 09:58:42 AM »
I agree, the site is average; bit plain to look at. With very minimal effort you could greatly improve the appearance just by applying a few varied fonts. I chucked together a quick example using Firebug to show you the difference, but with a bit more time and experimentation you could get much better results.

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Re: My first website made for general public
« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2010, 11:04:59 AM »
The comment "the site looks average" is probably the best comment one could receive as it means "yeah, this looks like a regular website" so good job on that. I would ditch the Times/New Roman font you have though, it looks bad/noobish. Other then that it's a good purposeful site.
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Re: My first website made for general public
« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2010, 05:31:09 AM »
I think some padding/margin would be good, your left side bar needs to be moved away from the edge of the box.
maybe change the black BG for a lighter color,

but all in all not to bad:)