website needs critque

[Thunder]

Hi All
First website I have ever made know online www.phoenixathleticclub.co.nz
Any and all constructive criticism appreciated.
Reason for colour and size of text is because we have alot of children in the club.
? When I search for it in google dont get any results why would that be

[WebMonkey08]

Looks Good ! Clean, and organized, good job .

[JohnnyD]

For the most part, I think it looks good. But I’m not too fond of the fact that you have two menus in such close proximity and they don’t even ‘match’ each other in links. Personally, I would remove the one going vertically. The color scheme is kind of wrong in my opinion. It just feels out of place. But everything else looks good. :D

[Thunder]

Thanks web monkey and JohnnyD.
Johnny I went with a bold colour scheme on the vertical menu so that it stands out for the younger members of the club e.g. 6,7,8 year olds to find what they are looking for. Know what you mean about having 2 menus close together. But was only way to provide quick links for people to go to specific areas in the site and to keep the people who look after these areas appeased they all wanted to be on home page lol.
Cheers

[JohnnyD]

Know what you mean about having 2 menus close together. But was only way to provide quick links for people to go to specific areas in the site and to keep the people who look after these areas appeased they all wanted to be on home page lol.
Cheers

Why not just use plain text links, rather than make it look like an actual menu? I do that on a majority of the sites I design. I am just giving a suggestion. It is of course your page. Maybe in the future you might consider it. :D

About the color scheme.......... I understand your concept of bold, but that teal and coral combo just kind of turned my stomach. LOL

[JohnnyD]

? When I search for it in google dont get any results why would that be

I would say the reason why you cant find it in search is mainly because of your meta tag keywords:

"Keywords" content="Phoenix,Phoenix Athletic Club,Athletics,Track and Field,"

You should really work on your SEO for the page. Keywords in your meta tags are important, as well as keywords on the page itself.

It also may be because your site hasn't been indexed yet. How old is your site, and have you submitted it to google to be indexed?

[Thunder]

Johnny
Appreciate the suggestion for the future
Being a total noob (as my son says) what do you mean by SEO and indexing by google. Site has been up 3 days

[JohnnyD]

Johnny
Appreciate the suggestion for the future
Being a total noob (as my son says) what do you mean by SEO and indexing by google. Site has been up 3 days

3 DAYS! And you think you are going to see your site on google? Not a chance. It can take weeks / months before your site is indexed on google or any other search engine for that matter. To get listed on search engines, you need to submit your site to them to be indexed.

What you need to do first is create an account on google's webmaster section: https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount

Once you do that, then you go into the webmaster tools and submit your sitemap that will need to get generated here: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

You need to save the .xml file and then upload it to your web server. Then submit it to google to be indexed. (that means for google to look at your site and then list it)

SEO = Search Engine Optimization

WebMonkey08 is a good guy to talk to about that stuff. I have learned a lot from his posts, as well as his site.

This all can be a little intimidating, but once you get that stuff out of the way, the rest is gravy.

If you need help with any of that other stuff, let me know. I may be able to help you out if you paint yourself into a corner here and there. :D

[Thunder]

Thanks Johnny
As i said new at this. Thanks for all the help, will do what you suggest and see how it goes. Must say this would be one of the most helpful forums i have ever struck.
Cheers

[MOMMYSCLUB]

Johnny D is right it takes some time. WebMonkey is the right person to ask regarding SEO -- my site has been up since Nov 07 and i am still learning seo stuff

good luck you will get there