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Hi David,

wooo hooo, opened up for me

In general, good job. I do have a few things for you to consider.

How about an alternative to the JS flash setup. If a visitor has JS disabled they won't see the flash or your navigation. From an SEO point the se's can't read and follow the links to your other pages.

You need to re-look your navigation set up. Not very user friendly. As mentioned above without JS there is no way for a visitor to view much more than a few pages. These pages also have horizontal scroll in my browser. (1024 x 768)

You have over 500 code errors on the home page. You have declared xhtml strict, xhtml must be written in lower case and not upper case. Also not a good idea to write the content in MS Word and then do a straight copy and paste. Word adds bad, excessive and unnecessary coding.

Consider using an external style sheet for all your styling and call for this sheet from all your pages.
One sheet + one change = site wide change

cloggie192 wrote:

Any decent programs or services to clean up the code?

If you have FF and the html tidy add on, tidy does a decent job of correcting the code. Have to be a little careful with it because it has a little trouble with some of the errors.

cloggie192 wrote:

It ranks in top 5 for most key words in the target countries so would changing the code have any effect on it?

Don't know about this one. Maybe one of the better seo members will stop by or you can post this question in the seo thread.

Hi, I have to agree with Coloeagle. I opened a few pages and all three stayed active, customers will not go but so far into your site. I tried searching google for shutters and you weren't on the first two pages, then I tried custom shutters and you weren't on the first three pages with that search either. When I tried shutters direct, your old site with the .com was listed before the new site with .nl. Rankings are always changing so I would go ahead and make the necessary changes that Coloeagle suggested. I don't know what your keywords are or your target locations, but I tried these three from the U.S. Hope this helps!

2 things stuck out to me:

1) to change from Dutch to English was not readily clear just by simply having the two floating captionless flags up in the right corner.

2) You have the same flash header, which swallows all your prime spave 'above the fold' of the screen.  Not good to make everyone scroll down everytime.  It could be that you just want your flash intro on the landing page to prevent visitior from hitting the back button.

Just my two cents.  All the best!

cloggie192 wrote:

Website for Review
http://www.shuttersdirect.nl

Additional Comments
2nd round of reviews for this site - This site was being slowed down by an over loaded server which resulted in somepeople not being able to open it at all. It has now been rehoused in Belgium. I would appreciate comments on the new layout and loading times. The Gallery section has also under gone a face lift.

The site is english and Dutch

Many Thanks David

I must have come in on the British side because nothing was in English. The pictures looked sharp but you could see the count down of time whenever you selected a topic.
Just work on it a little more
tbo