Wanted: Domain Appraisal Website Review please

[philiporchard]

Hi,

I've been designing a website for Oil Analysis Services.

http://www.oas-online.co.uk

Not finished yet, but any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks, Phil

 

[Admin]

When I do site like this I try to make them look "real" by not just using stock photos, take some pictures fo their actual people and premises and post something on the homepage.

I alos put the contact ingo on every page of the site including contact info, so that if someone prints any particular page they get that info too.

The design is nice enough, just needs something to lift it as its not very exciting.

Do they have any recent case studies or business wins?

Post it.

 

[namealot]

Nice site you always run a risk when having a nice looking site as apposed to one that list ideally we would all like both

these may help

PROBLEM
You are spamming the keyword analysis. You are using it 7 times when the maximum is 3 times. This keyword may be rejected by the search engines.

SOLUTION
You need to remove this keyword from you Meta-Tag Keywords list, so that you are not using it more than 3 times


PROBLEM
Your page uses Frames but you do not have a NO FRAMES tag, which is very helpful in search engine placement:

SOLUTION
You need to add a NOFRAMES Tag into your page, and inside of the NOFRAMES Tag you need to try to include your description and as many of your keywords as possible. pages


Your Description is too long and may be cut short or not included in some search engines.
You are using 253 characters when the maximum is only rec is 200. You need to reduce the length of your description so that it is fewer than 200 characters long.


Title is too long.
This tag contain 100 characters. This is too many for what many would consider a 'robot friendly' web page. The maximum number of characters
recommend for this tag is 80.


Keywords meta tag contains no errors.
This tag contains 16 keywords and 242 characters.

Keywords meta tag relevancy to page content is 100%.


Description meta tag relevancy to page content is 94%.

 

[deconstruction]

the site looks nice enough...

the code however.. full of all sorts of scripts (which probably have little use) full of tables (which you dont need and shouldnt really use) uses an image map (which you dont need and shouldnt really use)

 

[mat]

Is there any reason why you havent registered oasonline.co.uk? :???:

 

[philiporchard]

the site looks nice enough...

the code however.. full of all sorts of scripts (which probably have little use) full of tables (which you dont need and shouldnt really use) uses an image map (which you dont need and shouldnt really use)

Am designing using freeway on a Mac.
Will look into the scripts issues

With regards to other names, I've bought the company many other domains relating to oil analysis including oil-analysis.com and oil-analysis.co.uk and many others!

Pretty certain oil-analysis.co.uk was caught using a UK catching service.

Thanks for comments, Phil

 

[accelerator]

I like the overall feel of the design, my thoughts:

- The photos are looking a little washed out for my liking, they would look better being more vibrantly coloured - sure, apply something like a blue filter if you like, but colours would be better if brighter.

- The accent colour is veering a bit too far to the pink for my liking, at least on my monitor. I'm not sure if this is their corporate colour but it's not to my taste. I would choose a blue probably.

- The main Oil Analysis Services logo top left is not prominent enough. Perhaps use of colour here too would be good, or use of a larger logo and font, but it needs to make more of a statement.

- The whole design seems a bit over to the right rather than being centred on the page. It would be better more centred, although I appreciate that might be difficult.

Hope that helps.

Rgds