Some basic help with my website?

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bobsaget

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Hey what's up.

I'm creating a website for my video production endeavors but I'm running into a couple small problems. Looking at my HTML, I'm sure I'm not doing this quite the right way, but it works for me and it's the way I know how to do it. I don't have the money to pay anyone, and would rather be shooting video than learning html.



Here it is



I have a couple of questions:


1. If you go to http://www.sevenbproductions.com (WITH THE WWW'S) it goes to my old site that isn't even on the server anymore. At least it isn't showing my FTP program. What's going on here?

EDIT: ok wow, I deleted my cache and it works... IGNORE THIS ONE!!!

2. In firefox and safari, clicking the "Work" link results in a new tab (in firefox), and a new window (in Safari). Obviously something is wrong here. Any advice here?







Any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated!


Thanks!
 
1. To me, both of them are showing the same thing.
2. Take the target out of the links.
 
I was bored and fixed your site, don't use tables for layout it's bad practice. I know you don't want to learn html, but it's better to learn the correct way to do something.

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Seven.B.Productions | Video Production &amp; Design</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
	.center{
		margin: 20px auto;
	}
	#image_wrap{
		width: 427px;
	}
	img{
		border: none;
		float:left;
	}
	body{
		margin: 0;
		background-color: #000;
		text-align: center;
	}

</style>
</head>
<body>
	<div id="image_wrap" class="center">
			<a href="index.html" target="_self" title="seven.b productions video production by steve tenuto">
				<img src="images/home_01.png" alt="seven.b productions video production by steve tenuto" />
			</a>
			<a href="index.html" target="_self" title="HOME">
				<img src="images/home.png" alt="HOME" />
			</a>
			<a href="work.html" target="_self" title="WORK">
				<img src="images/work.png" alt="WORK" />
			</a>
			<a href="about.html" target="_self" title="ABOUT">
				<img src="images/about.png" alt="ABOUT" />
			</a>
			<a href="contact.html" target="_self" title="CONTACT">
				<img src="images/contact.png" alt="CONTACT" />
			</a>
	</div>
</body>
</html>
 
The "about" and "contact pages" are 404s, but I take it you just haven't gotten around to creating them yet? Is that your host's default 404 page? If so, you might want to think about setting up a custom one. It appears they are trying to monetize on 404 glitches by serving up google ads. The last thing you want is for someone to hit a non-existant page and then be served up a big list of competitor sites to click on and leave yours behind.

The "work" page is nothing but a red x for me because I refuse to install QuickTime and I know I'm not the only one who feels that way. You might want to re-think that.

Basically, there's nothing on your site for search engines to index. I would put a few paragraphs on the index page telling what your company is/does.

Use words in page titles wisely, SEs put more weight on them than normal body text. What does "Hill Biking" have to do with video production? :confused:
 
When clicking "work", all I get is a prompt to download a Quicktime movie. While i understand you can showcase your work in a video, I'd recommend at least offering a jump page with a brief explanation of what i'm downloading and why.
 
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