Website for Review
http://www.alphacomputer.ca

Additional Comments
I did some more site work – more pages and a sitemap added to the front web page menu bar.  I am starting to get all this.  I have been trying to slowly get rid of the tables.  This will take some more study on div’s – but the boy can learn.  My visits are up Jody, more than doubled.  Oddly enough, Google has still only indexed 8 of my pages, but Google is seeing the increased URL’s for my site.  I will focus on a new site like you suggested soon.  My CSS is all over the place.  I will try to build CSS classes on the styles sheet at that time.    I have been going through the list of corrections that you and Nic have suggested.  I even went out Sunday afternoon with the family for family pictures and I managed to get a professional one for the site.  It will be up soon.  Boy do I ever look preddy…haha.

Hello alphacomputer, welcome to the forum.

Now for my review 

In general nice site, not a fan of yellow but it looks good with the other colors.

The pages would look better centered in the window and not off to the left.
Minor one here, but the menu drop-downs are not aligned, they are off to the left slightly and cover about half of the top link.

The chamber image is blurry, a sharper image is needed.

On the business stats page, I clicked on the image and nothing happened.

I am confused on your seniors page. Didn't see anything about seniors but did see "how to download pictures from your camera" ( Little on the picky side here but isn't upload from the camera?)

Teens page, here again, no teen information but "Protecting Your Laptop or Desktop Computer"

Adults page is about buying a computer ---? --

On your e-mail safety page, I would have liked to seen some links to better e-mail programs such as  thunderbird and maybe some anti-virus programs such as AVG. With thunderbird I can still preview my messages and have it block all images unless I tell it to allow them.

Same goes for the internet safety page.

Now to the technical side;  hehe

You have used inline style attributes, the CSS should (unless it is absolutely required) all be in your stylesheet.

looks like you have decided to go for valid coding. I will point out you have 4 errors on the home page.

Result: 4 errors / 0 warnings



line 1 column 182 - Error: there is no attribute "xmlns:v"

line 1 column 222 - Error: there is no attribute "xmlns:o"

line 110 column 2294 - Error: name start character invalid: only S separators and TAGC allowed here

line 110 column 2766 - Error: name start character invalid: only S separators and TAGC allowed here

Remove the two ms specific attributes
You have styling in your closing paragraph tags. </p class="style20" >

One more thing about designing. Tables are meant for data, consider doing your site without tables. Several of us here who are willing to help guide and help you.

Figure this is enough from me for now.

Keep up the good work.

A very good job for just 4 months experience!

ColoEagle pretty much covered everything, I'd just like to
comment on your text:

Countries that have visited this site:

I'd say something like "People from these countries have visited this site"

Also I'd try to write a little bit simpler / shorter  sentances,

Also get rid of the typos, they make any site look sloppy

When you computer training is

I always copy my text to word and use its spelling checker.

Then I read it once more to make sure word hasn't missed anything.

Good site - couple of points
If you site is about computoe trainning and all  it is perhaps a bit to high brow to start explaining email  - java and harvesters on the front page.

For me the front page should be an introduction - leave the contact info to the contact page

Also not sure on light colours

All the best David

   Aaaarrrrr  I had just written you a lengthy review when my power went off for a sec and lost it      

Anyways I’ll try to touch the main points….

I don’t want to echo Jody too much but a few things need to be said-

People want to learn CURRENT computer skills – so you want your whole appearance to be “current” – which doesn’t have to be complicated- I think can be achieved with a simple, clean, sharp appearing site:

Now your dead on with the “keeping it simple aspect” and I think you’ve done a great job. You seem to use 3 logo’s for the header which is a bit too much, but overall it is simple. If you don’t want to create one yourself, you can easily get free or very inexpensive pics, art, grapghics to pop in

Clean: as Jody said- dump the yellow background. I’d go with just a white myself but that’s a matter of opinion. I see you have some banners at the bottom…little things like touching those up to make them the same size for example. Font colors- some titles are green, some are blue? 

Sharp: again as Jody said your images and even graphics need to appear a little sharper

So a recap, I think by having a whitebackground, a more appealing header, sharper images, little bits cleaned up (fonts, banners, etc) you could start having a crisper site

One of the things I always do when I want a new design is to look around…I usually go to very popular or successful sites (because I know they dropped a boatload of cash on researching their designs) and I see what I find attractive or effective on theirs.

Couple closing tips:

> love the content but your homepage need to drive people to where you want them to go next…you tell me how to navigate the site…but tell me where is should go next

> “I have included” make those 3 items links to those services

> what about adding a pic of yourself in the about us- always nice to have a visual of the person that’s giving such important training

> menu order- reorder it to have your most important functions next to hom reading from left to right….ie “company” is not your second most important page

> add a title tag

> Remove all links to Norton Anti-Virus (hehe..just kidding…just not a fan of their AV)

> some ideas for down the road > you may want to offer mini tutorials- both ebook style and video (which can be done using camtasia) or you may want to do some webinars. In either case you should start building a list of “students”

> what's the revenue model?

for 4 months you're doing great!

O and as far as the sandbox...LINKS, LINKS, LINKS => the inbound kind. You need to get other relevant sites to start linking to you. How do you do that? 1) provide good and orginal content and they will come 2) link bait- a couple examples of you could do is A) use camtasia to do a quick but usefull turorial that solves a common computer problem people have. Fire it to places like Utube and such but also find similar site in your industry and offer them this free video they can give their visitors (of course with a link back to you). Write articles or mini tutorials on the same subject and use the same strategy

Looking better - well done