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Joined: 11/28/2008

Hi, this is the first website I have ever made. Its the website of my home church - www.daytonaicc.com. I wanna improve it and I am looking for suggestions, criticisms or comments about the website. Thank you in advance.

Siddharth.

Joined: 11/28/2008
christ_propels @ Jul 1
QUOTE(christ_propels @ Jul 1 2006, 11:22 PM)
Hi, this is the first website I have ever made. Its the website of my home church - www.daytonaicc.com. I wanna improve it and I am looking for suggestions, criticisms or comments about the website. Thank you in advance.

Siddharth.

Personally, I am impressed with the site. If this is your first I can't wait to see your work when you get some experience. I would suggest a 'Statement Of Faith' page as well. People generally want to know about the beliefs of a church before they attend.

God bless.

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Joined: 11/28/2008
Thank you. I will add the

Thank you. I will add the statement of faith as soon as possible.

Joined: 11/28/2008
This site is a great first

This site is a great first website - I wish my first site looked this good!

I would suggest darkening the text on the left-side buttons. Right now the "shadow" is the area of highest contrast and it kind of takes away from easy readability.

Overall, you have a good clean design. Nicely done...

Joined: 11/28/2008
I agree about the contrast in

I agree about the contrast in the menu on the left. I also agree that it is a GREAT looking site.

Some other small suggestions:

- Put your location in the "title" of each page. Instead of "International Christian Centre - Home Page", make it "International Christian Centre - Daytona Beach, FL - Home Page" or "International Christian Centre - Daytona Beach, Florida - Home Page". This will help a lot in the search engines when people are looking for a church in your area.

- Move your CSS into an external file. Again, this will help your rankings in the search engines, because it will allow your main text to move higher in the document.

- Why a static image of a MapQuest map on your directions page? Link me over to MapQuest (or Google Maps, or Yahoo Maps) so I can play with it a bit more. All of the text on that page tends to run together, too. White space is your friend. /smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />

- For your header text on each page (like "Womens Ministry"), use H1 tags and then use CSS to style it, rather than using the divs. The appearance will be the same (since you're controlling it with CSS), but the search engines like it much better.

Again, great job!

Mickey

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