Up and Running

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Beth- That is a great guide!
Teri

[beebrothers]

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fantastic information...i see what your talking about..took a cup of coffee to understand..

overwhelming to say the least..but it seems the "little" things make a huge difference..

i will remove the UC signs, add a paragraph

add a benefits page
add a types of honey page
fix titles to reflect the page
add a headline to the page (now the <H> you mention i can't figure out???
do some paragraph editing to streamline
got to get a better grasp on the meta tags and page desciptions?

questions:

1) is there a way to change/update the properties of my navigaion bar and have all the pages update at once :) or one by one is the only way??

2) same with publishing, can i publish them all at once, or one by one?

3) is there a way to open all the pages at once to edit them?

4) can i improve my template and have all the pages follow suit without changing them all, thats exhausting :)?



this forum and you helpers is priceless..thank so much

[Bethers]

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Because you are new - if you are willing to change all your pages over to php pages instead of html - you could do a php include for a navigation bar that would then only require one update when you change it (that's what I'm now doing on a store I'm moving to VH and I recommend for you with a store that isn't yet moving up). Here's the information on it- and it wouldn't take a lot for you to do:
http://www.vodahost.com/vodatalk/blu...ge-bv-php.html

I really like your Bee Brothers site and think it can do very well for you - as it gets optimized.

Thanks, Teri!

[beebrothers]

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wow...this is getting to be a hobby...thanks a million, be working on it all weekend, on and off...

enjoy, and thanks

[Dream Lady]

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Beebrothers: Nice site you have going and your fortunate to have Beth offer up her se knowledge. She is goooood!

Just wanted to let you know that I just changed my nav bar to the php script link that Beth provided above. It works like a charm and is so much easier to change my nav bars now. I am adding to my site and this was well worth doing.

Keep us posted on how you're doing!

[beebrothers]

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thanks for the encouragment...things are going well, gave the home page more of a "store front" look, still working on that..
http://www.beebrothers.org


set up pay pal and played with their html scripts for button...shoot me :p

revamped a few pages
got the titles all worked out and more exact to content plus some detail
got alt text all worked out
reduced photos, i think
got the submit form to work on the contact page, easy to do

i cant tell if all pages are centered on my monitor, all center boxes are checked, so out of my hands..i think :)

i'm tired, ganna let it rest a few days, come back this week with a fresh look at it, and revamp some more..

thanks everyone for all your help..

[choco777]

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Agree with Beth as usual, excellent advice. Also with Sharon on the *******s link, and the links do need to be centeed as well as others. Great job.

[beebrothers]

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center in browser is checked on all of them, not sure what else to do about that..

not sure the issue with "*******s" its part of the educational twist and informational service?

creepy maybe

possibliy tie it into the fact that those three *******s and pests are the reason honey bees are Extinct in the wild? Only honey bees left on Earth are in captivity with bee keepers.

i'll keep tweaking it as time passes..

thanks, an outside perspective is great..

[Bethers]

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Don't get mad at me - but you now have a tad TOO much info in your home page title. You are now making it spammy- and you do NOT want to do that.

And you must not have understood the meta keywords - you should not put ANYTHING in the meta keywords that is not used ON THAT PAGE.

You also need to make the description keyword rich.

You are doing a great job. The changes are really coming along - but the seo is a must if you want to get the traffic!

Re: centering the pages - go into the properties and make sure the page width is not wider than what you're designing at - looks like 800.

[beebrothers]

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Turned into "WORK"..hehe...thanks for the headsup..fine i went a little nuts...most all titles, meta tags and descriptions are fined tuned...as best i can for now..

pages should all be centered now
still working on Keyword Rich descriptions
figured out how to view source codes to get an idea what others do


I'll bee putting it aside for a few days, beezy week..

hehe

thanks for everyones help..

peace

[Dream Lady]

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Looking much better!! Keep up the good work!

[beebrothers]

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Quick Update:

added a Forum (discussion), WOW, fun but tough (still evolving)
added an "action" page to my contact form, that was cool!!
tweaked and tweaked
still need to finish a few pages.


** I need...a....well, either a womans touch or a more professional look to my home page, or any suggestions to make it "appear" more business like.

thanks for any input

enjoy your holidays

http://www.beebrothers.org

[motoxxx]

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Loos like I am here a bit late but I think the site looks pretty good. The only thing I can really say is that the color scheme doesn't say "Buy From Me"....But then again I am no expert on colors!

Overall a nice site.

[Bethers]

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For more professionalism - first suggestion is that you remove the counter from the home page. You won't find them on professional sites.

Then, I think you'd do well to make a navigation button to match your site - how about something like this to size?:

[beebrothers]

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Thats a very attractive navigation bar, i've spent the last two hours trying to figure out how to make one..i'm guessing it's easy once you know the how..

thanks for your insight