Top young designers competing for your cash

[Percept]

On the mainpage it says : "Top young designers competing for your cash "
shouldn't this be "Young top designers competing for your cash"

I'm not english but it sounds strange to me.

[Liz]

Technically (and this is from a writer), it's correct. Observatory adjectives generally proceed those which describe age in sentance structure.

They say its one of the nuances of english grammar that are particularly hard pick up.

[Percept]

Ah ok, thanks :)

[Palmer]

I get more comments on that sentence than anything else :huh: It was just something quick I thought of to describe the premise behind the site. It really should have some keywords. I'll probably put something else there. Somebody from SP said it sounded "vaguely pornographic" :lol:

Palmer

[Liz]

lol ... now that you mention it. <_<

[imageconstrux]

This is a debate I'm getting a kick out of. When I created my little slogan for my landscape biz - "The Science of Art", my father disagreed, thinking it should be "The Art of Science." My votes carried more weight (of course), and so it stayed "The Science of Art", which to me is correct, because the end product is art, not science.

Bringing that logic to this example, 'top designers' is a modifier of young in Young top designers. So my read of this is, when I get designs here, it's from young people (who happen to be top designers). I'd rather get designs made by top designers who happen to be young. Subtle difference, I know. But as a customer, I like Top Young more than Young Top.

Call them young top layout artists and now it's starting to sound like it belongs on the blue side of the web.

Y'know, I had a post all typed out for this a few days ago and deleted it before I posted it; I didn't want to get sucked into this one. But here I am anyway. D'oh! <_<

[Palmer]

Have you checked the slogan lately ;)
http://www.designoutpost.com/

There was another complaint about it on another forum so I changed it. It wasn't right anyway, Google put more relevance on words the googlebot finds at the top of the page. I was wasting prime real estate on a very controversial slogan I thought up in about 2 seconds :)

Hopefully this one will get a better response,
Palmer

[imageconstrux]

Very controversial? Hardly. Pretty benign if you ask me. Though with the word 'young' in there, I can imagine you would've been ranked up there with the kiddie porn sites on google. But that's not controversial for your site, just that you'd get lumped with some unmentionables in searches and it'd hurt your traffic, I'm sure.

Good thing you didn't say 'hot young ...' :mellow:

[Zoe]

Hi Palmer,

Create another couple of classes for H1 and H2 and use these html tags to format your headings and the slogan at the top. The heading tags are one of the first things search engines look for.

Also since I am now talking about css. There is an even better way to optimise your site which will make it a lot easier for search engines to scan through your info. Instead of creating classes that you place into the html - create classes for the html tags themselves.

Here is an example of one of my style sheets.

<style type="text/css">
a:link
{
color: #000033;
text-decoration: underline
}
a:visited
{
color: #000033;
text-decoration: underline
}
a:active
{
color: #0033FF;
text-decoration: none
}
a:hover
{
color: #0033FF;
text-decoration: none
}

a.footer:link
{
color: #000033;
text-decoration: underline
}
a.footer:visited
{
color: #000033;
text-decoration: underline
}
a.footer:active
{
color: #0033FF;
text-decoration: none
}
a.footer:hover
{
color: #0033FF;
text-decoration: none
}

h1
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: 1px;
font-size: 13px;
color: #ffffff
}

h2
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: 1px;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000033
}

p
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000033
}

p.footer
{
font-size: 10px;
color: #000033
}

p.side
{
font-size: 12px;
color: #D8EDFC
}

div
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000033
}

ul
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000033
}

li
{
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000033
}
</style>

Then my html is just normal with no font tags or anything.

You will notice that I have two different link styles - one for the whole site and one for the footer.

this is how you would write the code - <a class="footer" href="linkhere.php">Link Here</a>

You will also notice that I have some added styles for the <P> tag.

example -

<p class="side">Text for the side bar would go here</p>

BUT - when you are just placng your main content into the page you only need to wrap it in html.

<h2> <b>Just typing some stuff in here. Just typing some stuff in here</b></h2>
<p>Still typing stuff here. Just typing here to fill some space.<br>
Still typing here and here and here and here</p>


Give it a shot - it will also make your page load that fraction faster... lol : )