Submission Status: www.hillscapital.com

(Sorry, I previewed this post, and am having trouble getting the submission category link to work correctly. I think it's the comma after Commodities that doesn't work too well in posts.)

Website http://www.hillscapital.com/ was submitted to:
http://www.dmoz.org/Business/Investing/Commodities,_Futures/Brokerages/

I believe I first submitted it back in February, then again in April, and early in May, I think.

I was wondering if there was anything I'm doing wrong with the website that would prevent it from being listed? I do have hidden links on some pages, but they're to divert spam harvester bots to a circular routed bunch of pages with false email addresses (I've disallowed the particular subdirectory where those false email address pages are in my robots.txt file, so regular search engines shouldn't get trapped). Should the website be submitted to a different category?

Thanks for any help you can provide.
Darren

It's http://dmoz.orgBusiness/Investing/Commodities,_Futures/Brokerages/. You have to hand edit it because the forum software doesn't like commas. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />


&gt;&gt; I was wondering if there was anything I'm doing wrong &lt;&lt;

The only thing you are doing wrong is re-submitting at regular intervals. Each time you submit, you over-write the previous submission. This means that if an editor sorts the queue by date (which is the default), each new submission bumps your site down to the bottom of the queue. The one in the queue right now is dated 24th April 2003.

It is there in the queue, all you need do now is wait. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

For categories with commas in them, you have to make the link manually (i.e. use the [ url ] tags and it would look like this http://dmoz.org/Business/Investing/Commodities,_Futures/Brokerages/).

The site is waiting there now. Note: it was unavailable the last time someone tried to review it and when I try to view it on a Mac, I either get Java errors (in Netscape 7) or it doesn't render properly at all (in IE 5).

I did just take a look at your site, and the use of Java makes it load incredibly slowly. I saw a blank page for the first two minutes of my attempt to load it, and I gave up after 3 minutes with the Java bits still not loaded.

None of this will affect the review of your site, but it will make some editors give up and move onto something easier.

Yeah, sorry about the site being unavailable. Burlee.com (our web host) got merged into Interland, and they moved all the sites over to new servers. It took quite a while to get everything working right.

I'm not sure what's wrong...we only use Java for the webcam (it's very small code), and the tickers (again, very small).

Are you on a dial-up connection? We're on DSL, and it loads in about 4 seconds. Also, the site was designed for the DOM2 Internet Explorer, since it's the most used browser. I'm still working on getting the site cross-browser compatible (I've almost got it working in Mozilla, but I can't figure out a bit of Javascript). But with IE6, it should load beautifully.

We're just getting started up after revamping our business structure, so after we get up and running (and making decent money), I'll have the site professionally designed.

Thanks for your comments, though. Can you tell me what browser/version you were using?

I'm using Mozilla 1.3 with Java 1.4.1_01-b01 over an ISDN connection.

I'm using a dialup but still, I've loaded more resource-heavy sites that loaded faster and used up less CPU time while they did it. Like dfy, I gave up after several minutes in Netscape, waiting for the whole thing to finish loading. Do you really need all that Java and Javascript? I understand you wanting the ticker but do you really need the rest of it?

{what is "the DOM2 Internet Explorer"?).