Hello from Houston Texas

Hi,

Recently formed S.E.O. Technologies based out of Houston, Texas.

Focus - lawyer web site marketing

Web Application - Dot Net Nuke

Interests - Speed techniques and web site marketing

Mission - We don't just build web sites, we form relationships.



Patrick Vilyus
SEO Technologies

welcome!
Had a look at your site... you could do with speeding that up, it took around a minute to load up and i am on a v.fast connection.
Your images are also bad graphically, they need tweaking to find the balance between quality and load time.
Other than that you have a good stable website!

Welcome to the forums,

Craig

Yes,

Our web site is currently being edited visually.

Our href exchanger has slowed our process with compression.

However, it is loading at 11.25 s which is pretty good for a dnn site.

Without compression dnn sites are loading at 20 to 30 seconds.

Of course, we are working on getting this down even more...

Any suggestions on that load time?


Appreciate the feedback!

Welcome to the forums.

About speeding your site up, i would put that javascript function in an external file. And if you really want to get the site faster move the site over to a css layout.

Welcome to our little slice of the intarwebnet.

hello and welcome!

"About speeding your site up, i would put that javascript function in an external file. And if you really want to get the site faster move the site over to a css layout."

1. "I would put that Javascript fuction in an external file."

DNN, or dot net nuke, automatically generated that javascript which I have not figured out how to make it external.

2. "And if you really want to get the site faster move the site over to a css layout."

We moved our site over to a css layout, and it reduced .8 s ....

I believe that this will help the search engines read our top bar because it is no longer in javascript.

We have, however, left our bottom navagation bar in a table, because we have found the search engines read links in a table better, allowing the pages to pick up more page rank.



Appreciate the feedback!

why would a search engine read links in a table better? im no seo wizz here and am very curious..

Re: "We have, however, left our bottom navagation bar in a table, because we have found the search engines read links in a table better, allowing the pages to pick up more page rank."


1. Personal Experience with our sites.

2. List Format preferred over Paragraph format.

3. Google xml site map is in a list format.. (In other words, this is what they like!)

4. Beautiful Example! colemanfurniture.com

• Site structure based on key word popularity.
• Main catagories are supported by sub categories...
• Tree like structure..

5. Same reason why directories pick up so much page rank. All in table formats with supporting pages.


Note: My site is not a perfect example of this yet..... lol... but it will be by the time I'm done.

but i dont see how there is any advantage over using tables then using lists to create the same thing...why would tables be better?

Oh, I see what you mean. Good point.

I overstepped my words there a little.

"table format has worked for all our sites so far" not necessary "better than css format"...

Tables are what I have tested, that is what has worked for me.

Best way to put it "If it's not broke, don't fix it!"


Note:

By moving our site from a table layout, to a css layout we encountered a few Negative affects...

• We had a few browser compatibility errors..
• More difficult for us to place content side by side.
• When adding three columns in a CSS layout, certain browsers did not like the third column.
• Also moved third column below first two columns.
• Sometimes all three columns would show up beneath each other, instead of side by side.

Basically, we do not have alot of experiene programming in css.



P.S.

I appreciate the feedback and suggestions.. We are relatively new at this... I will do what it takes to get that load time down!

Stick to the tables then, the increased speed your actually gonna get is minimal. Nothing that the actual user will notice greatly.

Update:

We just finished a new css skin in order to speed up site..


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• Took a while to make skin look acceptable in each browser.
• Content pane issues were solved by defining width.
• Drow down actions bar was set to a specific width to fuction properly

• Great results with load time from 11.5 to 9.5
• Better Browser Compatibily, from 8 to 4 errors
• Better Results with html, from 6 to 2
• Eliminated javascript

Appreciate the feedback!

Thanks for the CSS suggestion Sypher!