Please review my first Site

Hi all,

I would really appreciate any comments on my first website, especially how best to do meta data tags and the layout.

www.cherishedcards.co.uk

My question on this, should i include meta data tags on all pages, i.e some on birthday cards, some on engagement cards, etc. or only on the main page, i.e. on General cards and on wedding stationary.

Any comments would be gratefully accepted.

Thanks,

JPEG

Here's some nice bedtime reads:

Please don't use framesets

Why are you using a table to markup a navigation list?

The front page

Enjoy

I will look into all of this later, many thanks.

Just curious, why does everyone say not to use framesets? how should I do such a page layout?

Thanks in advance,

JPEG

Frames are bad because:

a) They cannot properly be bookmarked in existing browsers
b) Search engines only index one "page" and not a frameset. If a page lacks navigation links to other pages then spiders cannot find the other pages
c) For the same reason, when people visit via search engines, they land on the page and not the frameset and they cannot get to the other pages because there aren't any links

As for acheiving the same layout.... DO NOT USE "LAYOUT TABLES"!. If you do you will fall into a downward spiral.

XHTML doesn't specify any presentational, apperance, or "layout" markup. All XHTML is for is to markup the document and its structure. It is with CSS that we apply layout to the structure by telling the browser to apply certain styles to the elements of the XML document. Be it anything from telling it: "this block should go to the side" (like a navbar) or "make this text bold".

Thanks dude,

I understand a little better now.

Looks like I need to concentrate on getting to grips with CSS.

Another quick question, if I put meta data tags on the frameset, would the search engines then pick this up?

Sorry to be a pain and all, but thanks for your help.

JPEG

Search engines no-longer look at the <meta /> elements in page headers because they're wide open to abuse. Back around 1999 it wasn't uncommon to see porn sites with meta keywords and meta descriptions set to totally unrelated things just so that they'd get indexed.

Nice color choice