My first attempt at an e-business (grammar checking documents) Options

[SeanWoods]

Hello,

I recently completed a site where people send me their documents which I will check for grammatical errors.

Please disregard the meta-tags. I am in the process of working on my SEO.

Let me know what you think.

Grammar Perfection

• Anything confusing?
• Change anything?
• Missing opportunities?

Thanks!

Sean

[pandy]

Please disregard the meta-tags. I am in the process of working on my SEO.

It ain't in the Meta tags. Don't believe the lies the SEO companies spam you with.

I like the straightforwardness of your site. Right on the first page I'm informed exactly what your services are about. Many business sites are so full of words, mostly superlatives about how splendid they are. You can read for several minutes and without even getting a clue about what they are offering.

My sense of esthetics is somewhat flawed, but I don't think the gray menu background looks good against the turquoise.

[SeanWoods]

Please disregard the meta-tags. I am in the process of working on my SEO.

It ain't in the Meta tags. Don't believe the lies the SEO companies spam you with.

I like the straightforwardness of your site. Right on the first page I'm informed exactly what your services are about. Many business sites are so full of words, mostly superlatives about how splendid they are. You can read for several minutes and without even getting a clue about what they are offering.

My sense of esthetics is somewhat flawed, but I don't think the gray menu background looks good against the turquoise.

Thanks for the feedback Pandy. I am partially colorblind so I am not the best judge of color

[Brian Chandler]

What format does Grammar Perfection use? (MLS,etc.)

Hmm. Should be a space after the comma.

It's not clear to me who your potential customers are (looking around the Web in general, I suspect most people are happy with their mistakes and would't think your services are necessary <g>), but will they know what "MLS" is? And what would "MLS etc." be?

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I don't think the background image is effective. First I didn't notice the writing, then when I did it was frustrating that I couldn't read big enough bits to see what it said. I agree with Pandy - the colours could be better chosen. If you use cyan on the background, make the borders a dark blue-green, or something, in the same colour family...

[SeanWoods]

What format does Grammar Perfection use? (MLS,etc.)

Hmm. Should be a space after the comma.

It's not clear to me who your potential customers are (looking around the Web in general, I suspect most people are happy with their mistakes and would't think your services are necessary <g>), but will they know what "MLS" is? And what would "MLS etc." be?

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I don't think the background image is effective. First I didn't notice the writing, then when I did it was frustrating that I couldn't read big enough bits to see what it said. I agree with Pandy - the colours could be better chosen. If you use cyan on the background, make the borders a dark blue-green, or something, in the same colour family...

Awesome catch Brian. I did not mean MLS. I meant MLA which is the modern language association (a set of formatting rules for writing).

I am mainly targeting college students to check their papers. Perhaps I should focus on strictly that target market and mention that in my keywords.

I will play around with the background writing to see if I can make it easier to read. Maybe make the font smaller or something. I'll also research color families and what colors go together to adjust my page to be more pleasing to the eyes.

[Brian Chandler]

I am mainly targeting college students to check their papers. Perhaps I should focus on strictly that target market and mention that in my keywords.

Forget about keywords. As Pandy said, they have almost no real effect, particularly on search engines. (Personally I think it's a good idea to use the keyword tag, but only on the off chance that something somewhere uses it properly, so it is not very important.)

If you are tageting college students, say this plainly on the page, and in the FAQ. As long as you are writing the truth, you are very unlikely to fall foul of any SE discrimination.

I still don't understand what "MLA etc." could mean. What is "etc"? (Isn't this a writing style problem?)

[SeanWoods]

I am mainly targeting college students to check their papers. Perhaps I should focus on strictly that target market and mention that in my keywords.

Forget about keywords. As Pandy said, they have almost no real effect, particularly on search engines. (Personally I think it's a good idea to use the keyword tag, but only on the off chance that something somewhere uses it properly, so it is not very important.)

If you are tageting college students, say this plainly on the page, and in the FAQ. As long as you are writing the truth, you are very unlikely to fall foul of any SE discrimination.

I still don't understand what "MLA etc." could mean. What is "etc"? (Isn't this a writing style problem?)

To answer your questions, first, MLA is a style of writing .

Etc. is short for etcetera, which is "a number of other things or persons unspecified." Dictionary.com

I took out etc. and put a short description of MLA on the page.

I also changed the colors all around, shrunk the image links, and took out the borders. My next step is putting rounded corners on my CSS text areas.

Let me know if you think it's better: Main Page

This post has been edited by SeanWoods: Apr 30 2009, 07:23 PM