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<strong><em>Mortgage rates</em></strong> and home loan quotes online from our
distinct national catalog of qualified brokers and lenders. Compare <b>mortgage
rates</b> online from multiple lenders and save time and money. Mortgage loans,
home equity loans, refinance, FHA and VA loans and other loan programs available
at your fingertips. Utilize our mortgage calculators to find the real cost of
the loan. Compare <b>lowest mortgage rates</b>

b, strong, em {font-weight: normal;font-style: normal;}

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ORIGINAL: golfer
Page looks fine in IE but falls apart a bit in FF.

The opening paragraph is far to long and will, I feel, put people off reading the contents.

I'll let the more knowledgeable SEO people cover that part of your question.

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ORIGINAL: dpf

this part:

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<strong><em>Mortgage rates</em></strong> and home loan quotes online from our
distinct national catalog of qualified brokers and lenders. Compare <b>mortgage
rates</b> online from multiple lenders and save time and money. Mortgage loans,
home equity loans, refinance, FHA and VA loans and other loan programs available
at your fingertips. Utilize our mortgage calculators to find the real cost of
the loan. Compare <b>lowest mortgage rates</b>

shows you have a long way to go in understanding css usage . define "SEO Usability?"

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ORIGINAL: Mango Himself

my 2 cents:

It may just me (I am into graphics) but the heading picture looks somewhat distorted. It looks as though someone had dragged it.

the logo looks pixelated and flat

Too much text for a home page.

If you already have a long page and visitors must scroll through it, why not make the body slimmer and allow the right hand advertisement to be read easily? I mean, the word foreclosures is split.

Why not put a larger sized link to The latest Mortgage News and avoid such a long page?

I also would like to know what exactly you mean by SEO
usability

I am sure there is a reason for having created the page the way it is. What's the logic behind it?

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ORIGINAL: Mango Himself

One last thing, the only other Albano I know is an italian singer who was married to Romina Power (gorgeous creature) Are you guys italian by any chance?

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ORIGINAL: Mango Himself

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ORIGINAL: Nicole

Albano,

Like Golfer, I use Firefox and originally viewed your site in that browser. First impressions like everyone else, it didn't look good in that browser, too much text for a homepage and overall the text size was too small.

Two things:

1. You have the text resizer on the page which is great, but in IE the text isn't resizable using the browser text resizer, so if people can't read the text to know that there is a text resizer there, they're going to try and resize it using other methods like view>>text size>>larger. This doesn't enlarge the text on your site though, use ems or px for font sizes, not pt. Give people as many options as possible.

Tip: It's easy to change text sizes in CSS, find and replace all 16pt with 1em, all 14pt with 0.875em, all 12pt with 0.75em and so on.

2. Whether that huge paragraph is there for SEO purposes or not, people have their own browsing habits and will do what they usually do with a site which is usually read a bit about it first before filling out any forms or anything. It might be a good idea for you to do some research into information architecture and also common viewer browsing habits before thinking you can put things on a page that yu want them to ignore and have them ignore it.

Nicole

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ORIGINAL: Mango Himself

Albano

I will make you a couple of banners and email them to you. What format would you like? What do you guys suggest?

I don't know any italian singer by the name Mango. I know Zucchero (sugar) LOL Mango is my nickname and my favorite fruit

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congratulations you've done this all by yourself! (This is what my aunt said :) )

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ORIGINAL: Mango Himself

all I can say if it's only you doing that, especially if you don't do it for a living is: you are on the right track!!! OOOOPPPAAA!!!

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ORIGINAL: Nicole
Another tip: It takes time to develop a site, it doesn't happen overnight, especiallly if you're drinking Corona's!

and another one: Drink a gallon of water before bed, it might help wipe away some of tomorrows hangover.

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ORIGINAL: Nicole

http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/

Download it

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develop a site, it doesn't happen overnight, especiallly if you're drinking Corona's!

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Can I use 2 browsers on the same PC?

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ORIGINAL: Nicole

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Can I use 2 browsers on the same PC?

I have Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, IE, Flock, Avant and pwWebspeak loaded on this computer! All work fine.

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Like congratulations you've done this all by yourself

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ORIGINAL: Nicole

Looks better in FF, but it looks like the adverts down the right side are covering up some text (even if they're not, it just looks that way).