CJBoCo.com Website Feedback

I Can't Make It Better, If I Don't Know What's Wrong!

I've been slowly making improvements to the cjboco.com website over the past month. Trying to get it to a point where it wont be in the "beta" stage. I know there's still a lot to do, but I was hoping to get a lot more feedback from users than what I've received so far. Which is nothing.

I'm noticing some weird user habits, that I'm not sure if it's my site design or this is just what people tend to do on blogs. But, I'm noticing:

People are using the contact form, instead of posting comments.

Is the comment form to hard to see? Is it to confusing? Are you getting any errors using it?

People are not registering.

This is to be expected, but I'm getting a lot of repeat users, so why are you not registering? Is the registration link to hard to see? Are you getting errors?

People have not subscribed to ANY blog or project post.

For some of the people that have registered and posted a comment, asking a question, they have not subscribed. Not sure why, again is it to hard to see? Not working?

My ultimate goal is to make the website a great experience for everyone, but I can't get to that point unless I get some feedback. If you have something that's bugging you about the site, please let me know. I would appreciate it.

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Improving Bad Design Work

Photoshop And A Little Design Sense Can Do No Wrong

A friend of mine was in need of a little design help the other day on a postcard she had. Unfortunately, she didn't have the original artwork or photo. No worries, I got mad skills.

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Google Has Ignored the Keywords META Tag for Years

Major Search Engines Ignore the Keywords META tag.

For years, I've been using a few online tools to analyze my web pages to check for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). I've always suspected that page content was more important than anything you could ever place in the META tags, but today I was sent an article that put my suspicion to rest. On the Google Webmaster Central Blog there's an article from September 21st, 2009 titled "Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking".

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iPad ready? How about just Valid Web Standards ready!

Validating The Top 50 Websites of 2009

Apple revealed an iPad ready webpage today. A list of websites that support the latest web standards, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. This is kind of an "in-your-face" to Adobe and it's flagship Flash product. If you're not familiar with the Apple HTML5 and Adobe Flash war, do a search for "Apple snubs Adobe Flash" on Google, you should get brought up to speed fairly quickly.

After looking over the list, I began to wonder about how many of the top sites are actually standards compliant. What I found was a little shocking...

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CJBoCo Website Updates: Part III

New and Improved Download Manager

I was getting some comments about the the file downloads not working properly in the CJBoCo Projects Brew House. I've completely re-written the ColdFusion Boko File Download engine. Hopefully this fixes some of the issues people were having. This is a bleeding-edge stuff, so if you have any problems... please let me know ASAP! Thanks.

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