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Very first thing that grabs my eye is that the following image:

http://www.freewebs.com/jmstudiocharms//FWThumbnails/Necklaces/TealBlack-Cynda.jpg

....is WAY too big in size and loads up way too slowly.  You need to get that (and any other large images on your site for that matter) down in size to the 302 (width)X 402 (height) as described in the code of your site.


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I found the following page spam which includes some hidden text:

Invisible text found. Method(s): CSS `display` property set to `none`.
Invisibility purpose: Impossible to say.


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Aaron Wood
CEO
San Diego Dream Weavers
http://www.sddreamweavers.com
awood@sddreamweavers.com

New and improved! Now with blogging goodness!
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SGillManorr,
I`m assuming that you`re not a web developer nor that you`re a designer, so I will go easy on you, and give you credit for attempting.
I took a look at your web site, and as SDdreameweavers said, the first thing that caught my eye was the http://www.freewebs.com... I wouldn`t consider your web site, a web site at this point, you`re sitting on freewebs.com directory that`s it. I visited your other site the "Microsoft Live" and again, it is a template.

There is one thing that I did see though, the domain shows up as jmdtudiosolutions.com and that is a big plus "WELL DONE"

Shannon,
I don`t know how long you`ve been in business but if you`re going to drive people to your web site, I would suggest that you spend a little cash and get a real web site that will not only attract customers but that you will feel comfortable with.

Even if you`re the best Interior designer in Nashua,NH... you could loose credibility if you don`t spend time time or "CASH" in getting a professional web site designed for you.

F.Y.I, I come from a family of Interior designers "my father owns an upholstery shop" in Los Angeles CA that caters to Hollywood, and believe me I know the pressure and emotions that go into every project.

So my suggestion would be to get a professionally designed web site that will push your business up a notch.

As for SDdreamweavers, I understand that you`re trying to help, but your web site failed validation too. You have 16 errors... If you`re going to use flash in a web site, avoid using the <embed> tag. I don`t know how much you know about the "embed" tag but that was never part of the HTML standardization, it was created by Netscape in order for them to embed applets, remember the good old days when flash wasn`t around, and developers would use Applets as a form to make objects move?
What you need to use, if you`re going to use flash is called " The sautay" method..
Also add a header to your document.

As for your new Blog? ehhh.. Try adding some attributes to the hyperlink... No hard feelings though.




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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

man this thread software is buggy...


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Aaron Wood
CEO
San Diego Dream Weavers
http://www.sddreamweavers.com
awood@sddreamweavers.com

New and improved! Now with blogging goodness!
http://www.sddreamweavers.com/san-diego-seo-marketing-blog/

.....silly thread software...


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Aaron Wood
CEO
San Diego Dream Weavers
http://www.sddreamweavers.com
awood@sddreamweavers.com

New and improved! Now with blogging goodness!
http://www.sddreamweavers.com/san-diego-seo-marketing-blog/

I Don`t have the time or desire to use the Flash method you noted above.  It`s not on my or my customer list of priorities at the moment.

The attributes in the hyperlink is called SEO.   

Your Description meta tag isn`t exactly perfect either nor is the SEO that good on the rest of your site (not even ranked in the top 400 for `San Diego Web Design`) so let`s call it even shall we?







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Aaron Wood
CEO
San Diego Dream Weavers
http://www.sddreamweavers.com
awood@sddreamweavers.com

New and improved! Now with blogging goodness!
http://www.sddreamweavers.com/san-diego-seo-marketing-blog/

Edgar please contact me.......Thanks

I don`t know what to say SD_, if you`re going to design for a customer, don`t you think that the least you can do is give them a good design and layout? If you`re a web design company providing a web design services, the least you can do is give your customer a well coded web site whether it`s in your list of priorities or not. As a matter a fact it should be your number one priority to assure that your customers web site is going to render correctly in Safari for Macintosh, IE6 - IE7, Firefox, Opera, and Safari for Windows.

Also, if you call yourself a web designer, the first thing on my list would be to show off my coding skills. As for my web site, well it`s effective and my keywords are ranking higher and higher everyday what can I say "It`s HTML and CSS compliant", which in return help my site index faster in the search engines. When I re-designed my web site, it took YAHOO and GOOGLE 17 hours to index me. I uploaded it on a Friday Night, and by Saturday I was indexing on the 3rd page with "corona web designers" which also help me gather people from Corona Queens, and Coronado SD... And all of Inland Empire... Including Orange County Ventura




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Edgar Monroy
Web Developer / Owner / Consultant
When starting your own business the need to "know-how" is greater than money!
http://www.nuevolution.net

Edgar please contact me 360-333-1035  or troy@nwjava.biz

Hmm let`s see.  I can do one of two things here.  I can keep working on a customer page re-design that is needed because the CEO of the company he represents told him to or I can work on my home page because someone on a forum is using it as ammo in a thread reply.   Hmmm tough choice there.

That`s why I give them samples of my customers sites.  All live sites (that aren`t shopping carts) are valid HTML.

Regarding your keywords, don`t put keywords in your meta tag that you aren`t serious about targeting.

I also noticed you didn`t have one negative thing to say about the three things I originally came up with in my first post in this thread.  Hmm.  I must have been right about those three things.



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Aaron Wood
CEO
San Diego Dream Weavers
http://www.sddreamweavers.com
awood@sddreamweavers.com

New and improved! Now with blogging goodness!
http://www.sddreamweavers.com/san-diego-seo-marketing-blog/