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Some will remember my attempts to get our photo club onto a web site. This has finally happened. Is there a proceedure for getting Google to recognise this site?

HTTP://iowphotographicsociety.lifeyo.com/home

regards thoramay.

not really, just make sure you have lots of text it can latch on to, and is linked from as many other sites as possible - ideally other photography or isle of wight sites... will take a while...

I had a look at your web site. Why does the home page try to install a Microsoft Office XP application?

Also, nice pictures in the Gallery. But they should have been clickable for larger size. Now they are too small to be really appreciated.

But the site layout and design looks good.

A thought: your programme is an important indicator of what you have on offer and new prospective members will want to see that. Existing members will download a PDF but I doubt that casual viewers will.

Why not have a Programme tab that just lists your schedule on the page?

Also, a casual glance like I've just made gave me no idea what day and time you regularly meet.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for your comments and encouragement. It's trial and error for us.
No one in the club would claim to be computer literate.

Gareth, a little comment of humour. How many visually impared photographers do you know? but I take your point. Experience is everything and we need to take every comment on board.

regards thoramay.

I've realised your images are actually full size and being sized by your HTML. Unfortunately browsers are not very sophisticated so the image quality is being severely degraded and gives the impression of heavy sharpening.

I would suggest that you try sizing the pictures in Photoshop (to the size you want them to appear) and then re-uploading them. It should look a lot better.

Otherwise, good work.

Google are likely to notice the site on their own IIRC - I know I wrote one for a volunteer group which was rapidly picked up and indexed without any effort on my part.

Do a search on Search Engine Optimisation, and follow the advice given.

G

Thoramay, are you aware the site doesn't work properly in Internet Explorer? In Lifeyo's FAQs is states "Lifeyo works best with Firefox, Safari or Chrome. We're working hard to get Internet Explorer supported in the next few weeks."

Seeing as a large proportion of web users use IE, this isn't ideal. Maybe it will change in the next few weeks, maybe that message has been there for 4 months already...

Dan

I would question the competence of any web site company whose sites didn't work in IE.

There are lots of companies doing all sorts of things, but there is loads of information on SEO on the net.

G

[/quote]Have you added any meta and data tags within your HTML coding with keywords to help bump you up the rankings and to aid your website relavence :[/quote]Google doesnt really use meta tags any more.

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robbie.

You are confusing physical sight with visual impairment in that you cannot 'see' a joke or 'see' the point of a story or a 'see' great photo shot.

'Seeing is visual.. not 'seeing' is impairment.. Get it!!

You must nit pic on my threads.

Give it a rest.

Thoramay.

Thoramay,

You are confusing the intentions of Gareth's post. He was talking about people with visual impairment. I assumed you realised that when you made your response with no smiley (the generally accepted indicator of a joke).

I was merely pointing out that photographers with visual impairment do exist.

No need to get so uptight about it, relax, it will prolong your life.

P.S. Many thanks for the lovely PM, I will ensure it gets dealt with appropriately.