New Design / Portfolio Layout?

[Jonathan]

Is that a real email address in your author meta tag? If so, spammer will find it. Your keyword meta tag looks a little heavy not that it matters it's hardly used any more. I perfer 20 to 30 keywords but that's just me. Looks like you got more than 50 there? What's with the description meta tag? Would you want your site list with that description?

Have you considered adding a COPA (Children Online Protection Act) Statement? Since your targeting gamers that might be construed as children too?

I like the larger layout.

Like of course thats a fake email address
*swaps it out for URL for the website*

Erhm, anyways ~ whats this Almighty COPA Statment you speak of?
As well, I'm really trying to get like the best SEO and my SEO skills suck

[Buddha]

Make that COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act), damn my mind is turning to !@#$.

http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.htm

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/buspubs/coppa.htm

http://www.ala.org/oitp/faq.html

http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Children/20000420_eff_coppa_faq.html

http://www.epic.org/privacy/kids


From http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/bas1/coppa_cabana.htm :

COPPA applies to

websites or online services "targeting" children, and also to

websites or online services who have "actual knowledge" that they are collecting "personal information" from a child.
Interestingly enough, this site might fall into both categories. I'll explain more below.

In addition, COPPA only applies to commercial sites, and not to not-for-profit sites. The rules state, in part,

. . . where such website or online service is operated for commercial purposes, including any person offering products or services for sale through that website or online service . . .

. . . This definition does not include any nonprofit entity that would otherwise be exempt from coverage under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (15 U.S.C. 45) . . .

So, is this a commercial site? I'll talk about that too.

It's a cover your a$$ kind of thing.

[Jonathan]

Could I say, like "If you are under 18 years old, a parent must sign up for you" sort of deal?

And in an "Agreement of Services" state that, if its a minor and
the parent is signing up for them, the parent MUST validate all requests
for additional / modify current services? As well, that a parent's email address
MUST be provided and they'd have full access to detail's of the minor's acct? etc.

[Buddha]

Basically COPPA has to do with what personal information you collect and how parents can get you to delete it. Cheapest way to comply with COPPA is not to do business with children online.

I'm no lawyer Jonathan I just brought it up because it looked like you could be attracting some underage traffic. Since you want to be more professional this is one of things you need to be aware of and consider when building a site. Even if it's just to advise the client to talk to their lawyer.

This link is probably the best of the bunch on COPPA IMHO:

http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/bas1/coppa_cabana.htm

[Jonathan]

Hmm; I think I'll just put--

"Must be at least 14-years of Age, with the consent of an parent,
or over 18 to buy services; in the cause of "minors", a parent may request
details of the child's account, and/or cancel, and/or incure any fees generated by said minor;
Additionally, while we never disclose any information submitted, we will
take extra care with "minors", i.e. those of 14-years of age to 18-years of age."

That'd cover me good, I'd think,
since the COPPA states a "child" is 13-years or younger.
That and most the games I'd be working around are rated T or M