website feedback

**fergald** · 01-25-2007, 11:58 AM

Hi Guys,

Just wondering could i get some feedback from you guys, I am the owner of the website http://www.learningsteps.com - the website provides hands-on training classes and online courses in Html, PHP, Java, Microsoft, Oracle, Unix and much more.

you have a course manager for assigning courses and removing courses you have completed - non registered users get two free courses (try html getting started) and registered users have access to much more courses. when you complete a course you can take assesments result are all stored and you can run reports. You can also be a manager and assing courses and tests to students.

What do you think of the website colors - got some criticism and text layout.

also (1) I need to get more traffic and inccrease my pr - i have optimized and optimized code but to no avail - i have added 5 courses still no increase. Can anyone help.

(2) would you recommend adwords from google - i have 50 dollars credit with overture.

(3) would you pay for your link to be added to websites.

what are your best marketing ideas.

Mods if this in wrong place i am very sorry.

Any help would be much appreciated.

thanks
Fergal.

**RanaD** · 01-25-2007, 01:58 PM

1.) Your site fails W3C's Validation on 202 counts. (Not a good start for an HTML tutorial site)
2.) I believe I saw an SEO section somewhere on this forum. You could get help from the guys over there.
3.) There is also a section for Website Reviews somewhere on this forum, but I'm not a mod.
4.) The Marketing section would help you with Adwords
5.) No, I would never pay for a link, unless I want to advertise something, in which case I would pay for advertising, not just a link.

Now come on, don't be so lazy. Everything is right there, nicely specified in sections. I'll tell you what I ask people who ask me stupid questions about computers: "What does the screen say?" In most cases, the answer is right there, if you'll just read.

**fergald** · 01-25-2007, 04:21 PM

Hi,

thanks very much for the information - first thing is to fix the Failed validation, 202 errors .

then i will work on the marketing.

thanks again.
fergal.