Website Help

[Tyler]

Hey Nico i need your help! i just made this website a couple days ago and i need some traffic if i have any chance of showing up in a google search. If everyone who reads this could just take a moment to click on the link it would be greatly appreciated. You dont even have to read whats on the homepage im just asking that you visit. If your feeling extra gracious though, i would be happy to hear some constructive criticism from you guys because most of you are more internet savvy then i am. Anyways thanks a bunch! -Tyler

LINK: http://www.tygrracing.com/

[Otto.]

I like the graphic at the top. It's cool.

The text throughout the website is a but big though.

Good website!

[Tyler]

big as in font size or length?

i had a really hard time deciding on font size so input on that would be really helpful

oh, and my best friend from highschool is studying to be a graphic designer, so he hooked it up big time with the graphic.

[Razi]

The things typed in the orange text are a bit big.
On the "Home" page and the "Meet The Team" page.

[Tyler]

okay thanks, im making them smaller right now

[Otto.]

big as in font size or length?

i had a really hard time deciding on font size so input on that would be really helpful

Font size.

[Kompresshun]

Good job on the site man! Too bad it's not a Wordpress site, I do web design for a living and we use Wordpress a lot and it's flat out amazing how fast you can get it to show up in search engines but it will still move up in time.

The main key to getting your sites rankings up is keywords though, it does take a week or two for Google to start really picking it up. I'm not sure how your site is managed(html or some kind of content management) but usually there's a place where you can add keywords on each page regardless. The more keywords that you can add that relates to your site the better.

[Tyler]

thanks a lot A33, i just went through and added a bunch of keywords.

i built the site at yola.com and then i just bought the custom domain to look more professional. i know its probably not the best approach to web design but i dont know any code or anything so this was easiest for me.

[Kompresshun]

thanks a lot A33, i just went through and added a bunch of keywords.

i built the site at yola.com and then i just bought the custom domain to look more professional. i know its probably not the best approach to web design but i dont know any code or anything so this was easiest for me.

No problem, glad I could help.

If you're ever interested in building something more customizable i'd be happy to give you a hand setting it up in my spare time. Wordpress is easy one it's installed, basically once the initial setup is done you just log in to the admin area and adding content is almost as easy as posting on the forums. No code involved.

The only thing you'd really need to spend any money on is some webspace(from GoDaddy.com or ect) to load everything on to. We hardly ever use anything we have to code anymore unless a customer wants something VERY in depth.

[numbnuts240]

i like it. good job.

[sx moneypit]

Looks good young man!

[AZhitman]

+1 for the WP suggestion. Most of NICO's static content is WP-based, and it's been great for us.

Reverse the pic on the homepage to face left, and limit the width on the blog page (too much scroll).

Looks great!

[Tyler]

okay so i would definitely be interested in using wordpress. i already bought this domain from yola, is there a way to transfer it to a WP site? or would i have to buy it again? if i have to its no problem, i just am really new to web design so i dont know much.

also Hitman, when you say to much scroll are you talking vertical or horizontal scrolling? i would assume horizontal because limiting the width would reduce that, but on my browser(Google Chrome) im not getting any horizontal scrolling.

[sentrastace]

very user friendly, wordpress would be a good idea.

[Watermelonwarrior]

Nice website man. I would suggest taking off the page counter at the bottom. Otherwise its pretty clean

[Tyler]

thank you, the page counter was kinda meant to be temporary anyways, i wanted to have an idea of how many people were visiting at first... i plan on removing it soon

[Kompresshun]

okay so i would definitely be interested in using wordpress. i already bought this domain from yola, is there a way to transfer it to a WP site? or would i have to buy it again? if i have to its no problem, i just am really new to web design so i dont know much.

also Hitman, when you say to much scroll are you talking vertical or horizontal scrolling? i would assume horizontal because limiting the width would reduce that, but on my browser(Google Chrome) im not getting any horizontal scrolling.

You should be able to point it to where the new site will be once it's ready buy worst case scenario Godaddy has domain names cheap.

I'm not sure what Greg is talking about with the scroll but i'm on a 23" widescreen right now so I wouldn't be see it, i'll look on my laptop later and see what it's doing if he doesn't chime back in.

*EDIT - i'm not seeing any scroll at all and i'm on my 16" laptop now running Firefox and I was using Chrome earier.

[Tyler]

okay, hopefully Greg can chime back in and let me know what he saw.

as far as WP how involved would it be to switch over?

[ProudNissanFreak]

If you're using GoDaddy for hosting, you can install WP directly from them for free.

[Kompresshun]

as far as WP how involved would it be to switch over?

If you're using GoDaddy for hosting, you can install WP directly from them for free.

I would go that route if that's the case, Wordpress isn't hard to install but if you can do it directly through them then that just saves more time and is less hassle to worry about.

Once that's done it's just a matter of installing a template you like and the proper plug-ins, which I can help with both. I can build you a custom template if you like, I can make one pretty quickly whenever you're ready and will be able to use your current header logo. Then the plug-ins are easy as well, they're mainly to help with search engine rankings and ect plus there's a few cool ones out there if you want a nice photo gallery and a few other things.

Basically if you can get that done with Wordpress already installed, I can have you up and running with a new custom template and all your plug-ins installed in a couple of days probably(as long as nothing crazy comes up at home). After that you would just have to start copying over content from your current site. Whenever you're ready just drop me a message