I was looking for the information on this site,
http://www.londonchambermusic.org.uk/
and had rather a job finding it using Google.
I would like to give the organisation some feedback (when I eventually find
out how to, as there is no contact information on the site). What should
I tell them? Am I right in thinking that it seems to be search engine
pessimised (or whatever the opposite of optimised is)?
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Tony W
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In message <lsz6f.135098$G8.124472@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk >, Tony
<news-reply@t-onywoolf.co.uk> writes

Tell them that:

(a) I visited their site to listen to the contents, and all my reader
could tell me is "this page is empty".

But that's what happens when the page is just a collection of .png's.

(b) The DDA police will come for them in the early hours, and they'll
never be seen or heard of again ;-)

regards.
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Jake (jake@gododdin.demon.co.uk -- just a 'spam trap' mail address)

Tony wrote:
It will never be indexed, since there is no text there - not even a
title that can be indexed.

The "text" that you see on the site are all png images, so are not in a
format that can be parsed by a web robot.

The line:

<!--Serif WebPlus 9 HTML Export-->

suggests the page was exported from Webplus version 9. Well version 6 is
free and version 8 can be bought for £9.99, which had (and I quote from
the site at

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/sof...s/webplus8.asp

"WebPlus 8 is a later version of the WebPlus family and has had an extra
three years development time from our talented team of developers.
During this time, they have added a fantastic collection of extra web
editing features to enable you to achieve even better results."

Well, if that is the best they can do after an extra 3 years of
development time with a talented team of members. Perhaps the method of
exporting used by the writer of that web page is incorrect, as it seems
unlikely a program would be written that way.

It must be the ultimate example of how to prevent a site being indexed
on a search engine - better than even a robots.txt file!!

I guess the way I write my email out
http://www.southminster-branch-line.org.uk/myemail.jpg
is a little bit less likely to be picked up by a robot of some sort,
but not much less likely!

dave k

Tony wrote:

FFS! (Aimed at them, not you)

If they have a page that is almost entirely text, it needs to be
rendered as TEXT, not as images. That way (i) search engines can find
it, (ii) people browsing without images can read it, and (iii) it will
download in a tenth of the time it does now.

This is about as basic as it gets in terms of web design.

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"Stevie D" <stevie@sjd117.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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Thanks people, you have confirmed what I thought, but I wanted to make sure
that there wasn't something I was missing before giving them some helpful
feedback.
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Tony W
My e-mail address has no hyphen
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"Tony" <news-reply@t-onywoolf.co.uk> wrote in message
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Tell them to use text and not images posing as text! :~(