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<p>I just revamped (completely) my web site:</p>

<p>http://spirer.com/</p>

<p>The entire thing is done in Jalbum with the Turtle skin. I did some minor html edits to change a few things I didn't like. I highly recommend Jalbum, it's free and there are things I don't use but others may like such as PayPal shopping and guest books. </p>

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<p>Nice use of JAlbum, Jeff. I use it too, for some projects. I use the Fotoplayer skin to power some embedded galleries with online ordering for event type stuff. Lots of room to customize things, and it just works. That whole "free" part is nice, too!</p>
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<p>The problem I have with a lot of this type of software is the fact that your name disappears. In this case, other than the small print at the bottom, it only shows on the splash page if I am actually on the main image. The other pages it is gone totally except, again, at the bottom.</p>

<p>When I am looking at individual images, unless you have watermarked the image, your name is nowhere to be found.</p>

<p>For me this is all basic marketing 101, the name should always be easily found and visible-you are selling you and trying to build name/brand recognition.</p>

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Jeff, this looks really good here using the latest Safari and OS X. It flows nicely and presents the images well. There was

nothing about it that bugged me as a user. You travel in some interesting circles.

 

One thing that struck as strange, although trivial in practical terms, was that http://spirer.com/ has a different title than

http://spirer.com/index.html. One uses you name, which from an SEO standpoint makes sense me, the other doesn't.

 

Also a purely technical note: xhtml is case sensitive in theory. (I think this is true even for the transitional xhtml DTD, but

I'm not positive) You are using tag pairs like <HEAD> </head>. Technically these are two different tags and only the

lowercase is an official xhtml tag, although I think most browsers are forgiving.

 

I enjoyed the site and your work.

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<p>One thing that struck as strange, although trivial in practical terms, was that <a rel="nofollow" href="http://spirer.com/" target="_blank">http://spirer.com/</a> has a different title than <a rel="nofollow" href="http://spirer.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://spirer.com/index.html</a>. One uses you name, which from an SEO standpoint makes sense me, the other doesn't.</p>

<p>Thanks for catching this, I fixed it.</p>

 

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<p>You are using tag pairs like <HEAD> </head>.</p>

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<p>I didn't find this. I went through the source at the top level for each gallery and didn't see it. Can you give me a specific page?</p>

 

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<p>The problem I have with a lot of this type of software is the fact that your name disappears.</p>

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<p>I'm looking into this. I'm no css or javascript wizard, so I'm not sure how to change it, but I will ask the developer of the skin.</p>

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Jeff,

 

I see the caps in the tags here: http://spirer.com/Music/index.html (opening head and meta tags)

 

and here: http://spirer.com/index.html

 

I think technically the meta tags need to be closed with a slash at the end like: <meta name="keywords" content="blah

bah" />

 

Also, I just noticed that you've also got some meta tags that aren't in the <head> section. I'm not sure if that is kosher or

not. It's probably worth running it through a validator once you're happy with the design just to catch the little nitpicky

things. They probably don't matter, but do offer some piece of mind.

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<p>@Mark:<br>

In "XHTML" both traditional and strict, you need to open and close ALL tags. Closing "1-liner" tags such as the meta need <strong>/></strong> - This would also be for forms such as <input /><br>

Be sure to have any "listed" copy, such as "ol" and "ul", be opened (<strong><li></strong>) and closed (<strong></li></strong> )<br>

That is just about the only thing a normal user would run into. Always keep the tags lowercase.<br>

Every time I design a website, I user http://validator.w3.org/ to validate xhtml. Will tell you possible errors and what line it is located in.</p>

<p>Kindest Regards,<br />Steven P.<br /><br /></p>

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