A few changes -

Hi everybody,

A while ago I posted a request here to critique my site - the first thing I
was told to do was to validate my site. I've looked at the pros and cons for
doing so, and have started to validate my site.

At the moment, only the first page (index.html) will validate, but I'm
planning on doing the rest shortly (although some of them may already be
ok).

Some other things I wanted to ask:
- how do people feel about Google ads? To me, I don't find them too
intrusive, plus they have the style of the site.
- I've just hooked up with a banner exchange program as an effort to bring
more attention to the site - what do people think of these banners?
Personally, I'd like to give it a try for a few weeks, and just see how it
goes.
- at the moment I'm using a counter and a tool to log some info about the
homepage. I've already been told that this is probably better not done on
the site, and I agree. I'd like to get rid of the counters, but is there a
way to log hits without annoying the user with a counter or something
similar? At the moment, I'm using a free host, so log analyzers and stuff
like that are out of the question.

All ideas and suggestions are appreciated.

Here is the url: http://jcsnippets.atspace.com/index.html

Thanks,

JC
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"saz" <saz1958 (AT) nospammersexcite (DOT) com> wrote

In article <PZJNf.290537$u93.8787264 (AT) phobos (DOT) telenet-ops.be>,
admin (AT) jcsnippets (DOT) atspace.com says...
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Some other things I wanted to ask:
- how do people feel about Google ads? To me, I don't find them too
intrusive, plus they have the style of the site.

I see them everywhere, and I tend to ignore them.

That's fine by me - my main interest would be to see if people really
thought of them as being a nuissance.

- I've just hooked up with a banner exchange program as an effort to
bring
more attention to the site - what do people think of these banners?
Personally, I'd like to give it a try for a few weeks, and just see how
it
goes.

If you have to ask, then you know the answer. Ask yourself, does it
serve a purpose to my viewers, or are they distracting them from my
content?

You are right - I know the answer. After only a few days, they bother me. A
lot. So if I'm bothered with them, I figure most (if not all) visitors will
be bothered with them as well.

And like you stated, they distrect attention from the content. I'm going to
remove them later this evening.

- at the moment I'm using a counter and a tool to log some info about
the
homepage. I've already been told that this is probably better not done
on
the site, and I agree. I'd like to get rid of the counters, but is there
a
way to log hits without annoying the user with a counter or something
similar? At the moment, I'm using a free host, so log analyzers and
stuff
like that are out of the question.

Hit counters, especially on the site you are working with, look very
amateurish and will hurt your credibility.

Many hosting plans can be found for less than $10/month that will give
you what you need.

By now I already found a solution which could work, without showing a
counter to my visitors - but I'm going to need to test it first. I'll expect
to get rid of the counters over the next few days.

Thanks for your time and advice!

Best regards,

JC
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a collection of source code, tips and tricks

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:39:23 -0600, saz <saz1958 (AT) nospammersexcite (DOT) com>
wrote:

Hit counters, especially on the site you are working with, look very
amateurish and will hurt your credibility.

Well, with just occasional exceptions. This one amused me:

http://www.signalbox.org/block.shtml

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Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/