NEW ART PORTAL

[Ivan1]

Hello.
We just finished building a site for 101 ALLIANCE, an art portal and a community of artists based out of Atlanta. Please be so kind to check out the first version of our website. We are looking for professional criticizm and any comments and suggestions relevant to the structure and content of our website. Thank you very much for your time.

Temp link:

http://www.foundation-one.net/WEB/main.htm

Regards,
101 ALLIANCE CREW

http://www.foundation-one.net

 

[coldfused]

I like it man, I think you did a great job..

Colors work well, and the site is easy to navigate and very clearly laid out..Structurally sound!

Don't know about the whole grey space on the left thing but it is different..800/600 users will be scrolling, but if your cool with that, then your good..

Good job and good luck..

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[boyfromoz]

How do you plan to get traffic to the site? Is search engine posiioning an issue?

The design is fine, but is it functional? Art portals need to gather many incoming links to rank highly on search engines.

Few will link to a total flashs ite as you can not provide links back. ALso, look at your title, and meta tags, plsu as its all flash you have not ext in your body, no html links a search engine can follow..

I guess what I am saying here is what are your priorities here. To just look good? Or get people to the site.

Consider doing a mix of flash, with html buttons and text so search engines can follow the links and crawl the text.

No other way for you to get traffic.

 

[nomsg]

Looks great.
I would center the entire site, it looks right justified.
And if user has favs turned on, then site gets pushed too far to right.

I'm a marketing communications personnel by trade.
In case you are doing print, video, new media ... make sure to render all consistently.
IE, make sure all carry the same fonts, colors, etc.
And same strategy throughout.

cheers,
nomsg

 

[coldfused]

I have to disagree nippi..You can use <noframes> to fake out the bots and get a good ranking..I have done this before..NO frames with hrefs linking to other sites..Just do a mock up of the site with <noframes>..If you do this you might as well do a html site, but if you want to keep it flash, no frames is the way to go..

Is do-able..

carlsatterwhite@orlandomediasolutions.com

 

[boyfromoz]

The art portal industry is very competitive. There is no way this site will rank even top 100 without many incoming links. Who will link to this site when outgoing links can only be done through a <noframes> invisible section?

Check any of the top 100 hundred art portal sites and I gurantee they will have hundreds of incoming links, some thousands, and all of them good links, none from farms, some have extensive affilaite marketing systems as well, which is the only way these days to do well on altavista with a new site.

Sure you can fake out the links to a search engine, but not to someone wanting visible links back before they will link to your site.

Using <noframes> as you advise will allow the site to be crawled only, not get it a high ranking. Each page will need to be well metatagged, which it is not. It will not result in a high ranking for the site, I'd be surprised if using this method only it went more than top 250.

It simply won't be enough.

 

[Ivan1]

Thank you all for feedback, and keep it coming.
This site will be revised in six months to become more of Internet based venture, right now we are relying on analog marketing strategies and word of mouth.
If you have any other ideas, please let me know.
Thank you

http://www.foundation-one.net