Birchbolete - Wild Finland

hi
the site is about Finland, current events and culture. Should give visitors insight about life in Finland.
Please comment look and content, as well as usability etc..
English isnt my native language so feel free to comment that as well, if its good enough or not.

thanks

Sami

PS> the site is done using CMS/Wordpress

It looked great and worked great. Mice work

Very nice site.

Looks good, works well, feels easy to use.

Only thing is the images took a little while to load. Also you have a bit of repeated code "<p class="post-info-co"><p class="post-info-co">" invalidating your site.

Apart from that it's all good. Nice code and XHTML 1.0 strict.

Well done!

Yeah looks real nice, the loading times would also be the only minus point.

Hey Sami!

One thing I noticed is that the right navigation that says Culture/Politics/Sport..... should say Sports with an "s" on the end.

Usability is very good.

May I ask why you listed all the blog directories on the right side? That doesn't seem to have anything to do with Finland?

Overall very nice!

Hi guys
thanks a lot for the comments. I am not really too sure what I could do about the images if they seem to be loading slowly.
I'll fix that little typo thanks.
I am ashamed to admit it, but the blog directories are there only because they promised a link..
The things we do to get some attention..
I hope to be back link free some day, and only link where I think is worth it.
Thanks again
all the best

sami

LOL! Well link free is a good goal for the future!!

Wow I really like the look of the site! The banner looks fantastic! You shouldn't have a problem getting some quality links being a non-profit informative site.

Those recipricol links are near worthless in my opinion. i have read in various places that google is starting to interpret links recipricol links as a blatant attempt to get a higher ranking and giving them less weighting.

I would get rid of the directory links. A good directory will let you enter it without having to link back.

I would find sites that your site would be useful to their visitors and email the webmasters with a polite letter pointing out your site. If youa re non-profit and will be useful to their visitors they will usually be happy to place a link to your site.

Good luck!

I like the top part with the rainbow and the backgrounds nice too