review: http://www.madcaptains.com

[madcaptains]

Hi,
As I said in my presentation, I am new to the web development word. It's now been 10 month since I have start learning all that and I now have my first website online.
Check it out: www.madcaptains.com

on this website people will find saltwater related information, links, articles, video and other stuff. There is also some affiliate links.

I know there is lots of things I could do to make it better but before I would like to get your opinion. What do you think about it? is it nice? not bad? bad? do you like the visual? is it easy to navigate into the site?

Thank you for your comments

regards

[TechSup]

In short words, the template is to much for what you're trying to do. Having a template that is more closed in and filling will make your site easier to navigate without the heavy buttons and open spaces to try and find things (such as the middle to the bottom) (scrolling to find information all the way down is not fun for some viewers)

If you are able to find a free template that is allowing you to place your information in a smaller template then I would highly recommend it.

[madcaptains]

Hi,
thank your for the comments.
So you suggest lighter button, less open space, less scrolling down. I'll work at an other page and try to fix those things.

thank you

[madcaptains]

Hello,
I was gona start working on the french version of the site so I took the time to try new stuff.
What would you guys think about something like this:
Frensh version
instead of:
English version

[navyfalcon]

Not displaying much now, mainly site under construction.
No menu, not much to review
Checked your meta tags
<title>Mad Captain's Aquarium</title>
<meta name="keywords" content="aquarium supply link right now bacteria store" />
<meta name="description" content="aquarium" />
Thought it was kinda cute
falcon

[attick]

I like it...nice site

[madcaptains]

Thank you. I did some major changed this weekend. The reason why I did this is beacause I realize my Html was way to heavy and that was quit bad to make modification to it.
Also, I tried to follow Steven Myers's comments and fill the space a little more and make it easyer to view. did it work? maybe yes, maybe not but for sure it's easier than it was and the html behind is quite easy now.

[attick]

I liked the layout, it was easy to read and not alll jammed together. Good font size. I took a quick look at your meta tags. How do you come up in a search? Personally I think you need more title, description and keywords. The description doesn't describe what your site is. More keywords and work 2-3 into your title.

[madcaptains]

thanks for the comments. Meta tags, key word and title are what I am working on right now. I know nothing about that! I don't even know what my meta tags are. At this time, I am reading about all this and I'm confuse a little. I also don't really like how I come out in search results.

[madcaptains]

There is many link on my website. Only a few month after I have add those links, I can find some broken link.
What do you think about adding something like this after each links:

<a href="mailto:aquadrct@yahoo.com?subject=Bad Link Found
&body=I would like to report LINK NAME as a bad link">Report Bad Link</a></center>

You can see an exemple of what it would look like on this page:http://pmeenligne.ca/madcaptains/ind..._liste3&M=1888


It's gona take me a full day to add this to each links so I would like to know you opinion before to spend that time to this. is it worth the time spend? do you really think it's gona help me remove the bad links?

Thank you for your time

[oldstocks]

You may consider a smaller graphic at the top and some short text at the top to explain the site.