BLONDEPEDIA HAS ARRIVED!

[Royal Flush]

I remember writing a load of these for snoops back in Jan or Feb and thought the idea had been binned but looks great. Also to Julian Thew for writing mine I will say tyvm and how the hell did you know? 5 or 6 months down the line I am running a poker school/mentoring scheme and spend probably 10 hours a day teaching now instead of playing- Julian you must be psychic mate.

No-one has laughed at this yet.....

[Colchester Kev]

Oh trust me, we have ... just not out loud

[b4matt]

Brilliant!!! very well done guys

[boldie]

lol@ the picture chosen for Flushy. Class. it looks amazing..I'll have a proper look over the weekend but have a feeling i could spend days on this.

[Royal Flush]

lol@ the picture chosen for Flushy. Class. it looks amazing..I'll have a proper look over the weekend but have a feeling i could spend days on this.

Jen's is better....

[The_nun]

Very good, must have taken some doing....So much goes on behind the scenes here. I take my bra hat off to you guys..xxxx

[montreux]

There is a serious, overlooked flaw in Blondepedia, which is that it uses Flash as its sole means of navigation.  A visitor to the site who does not have Flash is totally unable to explore the site.  With Flash browser penetration approaching 99%, you might think this not to be a great problem.  But remember that your site\'s Number One Most Important Vistor does NOT have Flash... and that visitor is Googlebot.

In its current state, Google will not properly index the Blondepedia website.  I am no SEO expert, but I believe this will severely limit Blondepedia\'s PageRank (Google\'s scoring system).  I challenge you to point to examples of websites that are constantly on the top of Google listings, which use Flash as their sole means of navigation.  As far as Google (and other search engines) are concerned, every single page on Blondepedia is a \"dead end\", and this (among other things) will lead to a low PageRank.

In other words: in its current state, Blondepedia will effectively not be search-engine listed, and as a result will receive little/no incoming hits.

To be honest, the Flash menu on Blondepedia does not bring anything to the site; and the header and footer are pure gratuitousness.  If you want Blondepedia to gain hits other than those from \'within the fold\', you would do well to replace the Flash navigation with, say, a more semantically-correct styled unordered list. 

[jammer]

These are good points, but be aware that the aim was to get blondepedia up as quickly as possible, and most of what you have said will be incorporated into immediate iterations. Thanks for your useful comments.

[snoopy1239]

There is a serious, overlooked flaw in Blondepedia, which is that it uses Flash as its sole means of navigation.  A visitor to the site who does not have Flash is totally unable to explore the site.  With Flash browser penetration approaching 99%, you might think this not to be a great problem.  But remember that your site\'s Number One Most Important Vistor does NOT have Flash... and that visitor is Googlebot.

In its current state, Google will not properly index the Blondepedia website.  I am no SEO expert, but I believe this will severely limit Blondepedia\'s PageRank (Google\'s scoring system).  I challenge you to point to examples of websites that are constantly on the top of Google listings, which use Flash as their sole means of navigation.  As far as Google (and other search engines) are concerned, every single page on Blondepedia is a \"dead end\", and this (among other things) will lead to a low PageRank.

In other words: in its current state, Blondepedia will effectively not be search-engine listed, and as a result will receive little/no incoming hits.

To be honest, the Flash menu on Blondepedia does not bring anything to the site; and the header and footer are pure gratuitousness.  If you want Blondepedia to gain hits other than those from \'within the fold\', you would do well to replace the Flash navigation with, say, a more semantically-correct styled unordered list. 

I was aware of this as I encountered the same problem several months back with the Main Site, it simply slipped my my mind with blondepedia.

However, the menu is a relatively simple one, so rectifying the problem should be a relatively easy process.

Many thanks for pointing out mi ol fruit. 

[tikay]

There is a serious, overlooked flaw in Blondepedia, which is that it uses Flash as its sole means of navigation.  A visitor to the site who does not have Flash is totally unable to explore the site.  With Flash browser penetration approaching 99%, you might think this not to be a great problem.  But remember that your site\'s Number One Most Important Vistor does NOT have Flash... and that visitor is Googlebot.

In its current state, Google will not properly index the Blondepedia website.  I am no SEO expert, but I believe this will severely limit Blondepedia\'s PageRank (Google\'s scoring system).  I challenge you to point to examples of websites that are constantly on the top of Google listings, which use Flash as their sole means of navigation.  As far as Google (and other search engines) are concerned, every single page on Blondepedia is a \"dead end\", and this (among other things) will lead to a low PageRank.

In other words: in its current state, Blondepedia will effectively not be search-engine listed, and as a result will receive little/no incoming hits.

To be honest, the Flash menu on Blondepedia does not bring anything to the site; and the header and footer are pure gratuitousness.  If you want Blondepedia to gain hits other than those from \'within the fold\', you would do well to replace the Flash navigation with, say, a more semantically-correct styled unordered list. 

That's most helpful - thank you.

[montreux]

Also, I don\\\'t know if it is possible for you to use so-called \\\'friendly URLs\\\'.
I.e. instead of: /blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=198
you would have: /blondepedia/jennifer-mason
Once set up it is automatic, and it\\\'s better for both search engines and humans :-)

Here is a link: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Apache/Search-Engine-Friendly-URLs-with-mod-rewrite/

Anyway, well done & good luck

[tikay]

Also, I don\\\'t know if it is possible for you to use so-called \\\'friendly URLs\\\'.
I.e. instead of: /blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=198
you would have: /blondepedia/jennifer-mason
Once set up it is automatic, and it\\\'s better for both search engines and humans :-)

Here is a link: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Apache/Search-Engine-Friendly-URLs-with-mod-rewrite/

Anyway, well done & good luck

Again, many thanks.

Gotta love the Lime, Mrs!

[booder]

Also, I don\\\'t know if it is possible for you to use so-called \\\'friendly URLs\\\'.
I.e. instead of: /blondepedia/blondepedia_view_player.php?player_id=198
you would have: /blondepedia/jennifer-mason
Once set up it is automatic, and it\\\'s better for both search engines and humans :-)

are you Sofa-King ?

[jammer]

its someone who is a big fan of backslashes that's for sure...

[NoflopsHomer]

its someone who is a big fan of backslashes that's for sure...

Michael Myers?