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I don't think I - from a country where homeschooling is extremely uncommon, and who generally liked school - am your target audience. Still, a quick read throug
by JoachimSchipper 14y ago
I don't think I - from a country where homeschooling is extremely uncommon, and who generally liked school - am your target audience. Still, a quick read through the front page set off my "crazy" detector at least twice - once at the Mill quote ("despotism over the mind"; repeated twice) and again when you linked schooling to the Third Reich. You may want to tone that down a bit if you want to be accessible to the not-yet-converted.
The header contains no fewer than four navigation aids - site map, site index, site search and the Google search bar (and the last two are redundant). Consider putting the categories from your site map into your header instead - e.g. "college FAQ", "Getting started" (+ reading), "Recommended books".
Parts of your site are likely to be utterly out of date. This isn't too bad for some pages - the educational stuff may miss the newest insights and corrections, but should still be mostly correct - but I can image that e.g. college admissions have changed a lot since the last real update of that page, and getting that wrong could seriously hurt your readers. Such pages could use a "this information is current as of 2004; it will be updated in the coming weeks" header.
Your copyright claim is confusing, partly because it seems narrower than fair use ("... for the purpose of..."). Consider something like "may be freely copied, provided no changes are made and proper attribution is given, for government and other non-commercial purposes only" or just "I want to see homeschooling well-represented; if you want to republish my work, do not hesitate to contact me for permission".
I'm far from an expert, but you don't seem to be doing anything really stupid SEO-wise, which gets you most of the way there. Though in the interest of making people like your site more, you could consider the fact that people really like smiling kids. (It's cliche because it works.)
If you haven't already done so, consider scanning for broken links sooner rather than later. I like the "linkchecker" tool, which - with a bit of configuration - can handle a whole site at once; but there are plenty of other options.