I am starting to revamp my web site from Rapidweaver to FW Pro. slowly does it. I have no access to a PC, so could some kind person tell me how the splash page and the home page look on a PC:
Just for now I have linked to pages on my old web site.
I have duplicated the homepage without any of the Transition FX delays, so that when I have done the new pages, they will link back to that… Any advice (be gentle with me!) will be much appreciated.
Actually, you had best replace the spaces with underscores or hyphens in the actual files you create in Freeway or on your server. A URL may not contain spaces, because that would be ambiguous. Browsers automatically add the %20 and servers convert it back to a space and try to deal with the result, but this is far from universal or fool-proof.
Walter
On Mar 15, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Bob King wrote:
Hi,
me again, sorry about the URL… I forgot that you need to replace spaces with %20
In the actual URL, I use hyphens, but, in haste, used spaces in my freespace site, I will change it, but will leave for now, so that peeps can find it.
so could some kind person tell me how the splash page and the home page look on a PC:
The first thing I would say is ditch the Splash Page.
Having an entirely graphic start page gives you ZERO Google SEO points and to be honest your Homepage isn’t really any better. No HTML text means no brownie points!
So I would say - forget how it looks on a PC and work on how it comes across to Google. At the end of the day a picture is the same on a PC as it is on a Mac it is when text rendering is put in the mix that you have to be careful.
I wondered about the splash page, but am shocked that the homepage has zero Google SEO presence. I think I’ll stick with the Rapidweaver version for now, just thought of having a go at Freeway’s graphic/desk top publishing approach. I’ve got a very good listing in Google now and as my tenant has just got up and gone, am very loath to venture into uncharted waters.
Thanks for your info.
OmarKN,
that ref. is very useful, I have bookmarked it, ta.
my existing Rapidweaver site, is of course template/css (or Theme, as they call it in RW) based, but it is mostly HTML text, in tables, so has good presence SEO wise. I just thought of getting away from all that constriction and going for the blank page DTP of FW Pro. I could of course simply emulate my RW site in FW, but that would just be IMHO not using the most of FW…
Anyway, I have learned a lot about fancy graphic fade in effects/actions, but as with all beginners have used them too much. Thanks for your indulgence.
Having looked at your existing home page I can see that it has plenty of HTML text and that is why Google likes it.
There is no reason that you cannot do the same in FW but just add some fizz with some graphics - just keep the HTML text as well. Maybe a CSS Menu for the links to the other pages.
But Splash pages - once very popular - are now recognised as just a barrier stopping the visitor (and Google) from getting to the real content.