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[jjtaylor]

Hi,
I am new-I would appreciate any feedback on my website:
www.artworkbykids.com

Thanks,
JTaylor

[JPnyc]

Well it's not bad, the look is ok but it does need some work. Most of the real content is out of site until you scroll. I would change that. You have a large gap where some of that text should be.

The coding is extremely out of date, roughly 25 yrs at least. That doens't always matter, I've seen sites that returned 1st in a web search but whose coding was an absolute nightmare, but I'm sure it required a lot more work and/or $$ to get it ranked that highly.

[jjtaylor]

Thanks so much. I took your advice and moved all my text below the pictures as I feel this is the most important. I have my website hosted with CityMax so I can't do anything about the coding or the big space on the first page. I am sending your comments to my designer.
Thanks so much!!!!!!
JTaylor

[jjtaylor]

Oops, I forgot to ask...How high is my website rated? You said it was ranked high and I was wondering how you knew and is there a number? And yes I have worked very hard on it. Thanks!

[JPnyc]

No I was referring to another site which I had seen that returned first in the search, and yet was coded to 1980s web standards. I don't know how high your site is ranked in the search engines. You can find out for yourself by simply searching on some keyword(s) related to your site and seen how high it returns in the search

[roban]

Your load times are pretty poor:
in seconds:
14.4K 181.54
28.8K 90.77
56K 46.68
128K ISDN 20.42
1.44MB T1 1.89

I'd like to know where the site ranks well also. You only have 2 pages on Altavista and 2 on Alltheweb.

Generally I like the site but it needs layout work. Why is the front page url http://www.artworkbykids.com/aboutus.html?