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scan06disk

Apr 12 2007, 09:52 AM

hi plp,

enjoy my FREE site i built in half an hour

visit it at Gold Member this link.

thank you
Scan

bk2070

Apr 12 2007, 11:27 PM

It's alright and i'll tell you why. Most people do not need a site like that in their lives since if they want games they can goto a better game site like shockwave and music they always have yahoo and tose online radio shows. The skin could be adjusted to make the site look more proffessional other than continue with your site, and take more than 30 minutes to make it better!

Arbitrary

Apr 13 2007, 12:00 AM

Hmmm...I think your site's in need of a more professional set of colors. The current choice of colors and design makes it look more like a blog than a serious site. Also, I think your site content has too much stuff about it being "cool" and having "free stuff". It'd be better to be less vague (and use less promotional phrases), as that usually turns people off. People aren't going to have the patience to scroll through paragraphs and paragraphs of promotional words with no meaning to them before they actually get to the meat of the site.

Also, that little moving snippet at the top of the page is rather...annoying. I think marquees were named one of the more annoying aspects of web design that much of the audience dislikes, so it's better to get rid of it and just go for a more static design. The same goes for that flashing "stop hot linking" sign--it hurts my eyes. I'd prefer it if it weren't there.

Your links section could also be modified to be a bit more professional--perhaps add some other colors to make the section stand out. It is, after all your navigation, and if you're not going to tell visitors what the point of your website is in your content, they might as well find out for themselves through inferences by looking at the navigation.

The logo in the header could use some fixing as well. Right now it doesn't fit at all into the dark gray background--it reminds me of those old newspapers that have weirdly designed headers. I also think the title of the site (Gold Member) could be a bit more descriptive--when I first thought of the title, the first thing that popped into my mind was credit cards.

Your link names could also be more professional---like "the fun page" probably isn't a great way to describe a page. It feels more like a children's site than one catered to the majority of the internet audience.

In terms of a portal site (which I believe your site seems to be), Gold Member is rather lacking. Let's look at the problems you face while running such a site:

(1) Your site lacks the publicity that most other portal sites already have. If you were a well-known site and decided to add several portal-like features, then they're more likely to be used. If you're a relatively unknown site, it's better to cater to a single topic (such as snakes or gmail news or something of the sort) than it is to widely spread your topics. If you cater to a single topic, the keywords on your site will mostly focus on that topic, which means that search engines are more likely to rank you higher for that topic and people who search for the topic are more likely to visit your site.

(2) Much of the content makes your site look unprofessional. If it were more of a topic-centered/personal site, that might be forgiven. But a portal site most likely won't be forgiven--it's taken to higher professional standards than your regular old site. I think the addition of the clock at the bottom of the home page would fit as unprofessional-- (1) it's unneeded so it feels rather out of place, (2) its colors don't match up to the rest of the site.

There are also other problems such as this:

QUOTE

Upload your images, music and files for FREE using our fast servers !

Thank you for using our services !

First of all, these are not your servers. Whoever uploads a file, that file is obviously not going to your server--it's going to either TinyPic, ImageFile or EasyShare's servers. That's a pretty big sign of unprofessionality--claiming to offer something when you really don't offer it.

Then when I go to the search page, it says:

QUOTE

GoldSearch
The next generation search engine

It's quite obvious that this is not GoldSearch's search engine, so why bother claiming Google's search engine as your own. That, like the above example, is rather unprofessional. Better, I think, to just come out and say that it's Google's instead of pretending that it's yours.

Nonetheless, considering that this only took you thirty minutes, you did quite a nice job on it. I'm assuming you'll be fixing it up later on and add more content of your own to it (portal sites don't work well unless your famous, remember?). Good luck, all the same.

Tetraca

Apr 13 2007, 02:26 AM

Not very good, IMO. The menu blends too much into the design, and the logo sticks out too much. There is a marquee on the top of the page. There are useless widgets and images at the bottom of the page. co.nr isn't the best type of domain you can get because it uses frames which means engines do not cache your site. Your code seems fine because it is written with divs, which is very good, however.

scan06disk

Apr 13 2007, 05:10 AM

hehehe thx for all ya comments its a site i abandoned few months ago i am running my own site from home using APACHE, SQL and PHP BTW if u guys can help me out i use the domain local host well what would i need to do if i want other people to see it over the internet, i am guessing u tell me to use my IP address well but i have an IP address tht keeps on changing i really dunno if it is Static or DHCP or something but i really want my family to view it from overseas what do i doo PLEASE HELP how do i open ports or such stuff for them to view the site ???

Any help Thank you very much

Scan

shigajet

Apr 13 2007, 05:25 AM

Okay, some of this has been mentioned before, but I thought I'd add my voice to the feedback on your site.

Given that you built the website in 30 minutes, it's not a bad piece of work but it could be a lot better.

I agree on the header - try for something other than dark grey for the colour and/or change the banner/header image and slogan so that it blends in. As it is, the logo sticks out like a sore thumb. No need to have the words "online site". We already know it's online, so why state that in the header logo? See if you can come up with a better name description of the site.

The scrolling marquee and other widgets (clock incluced) have got to go - nuff said.

Create more professsional sounding link titles.

Most importantly, have a specific focus for your site rather than include a bit of everything. Similarly, change your use of language on the site (words like "stuff" are too colloquial, vague, and unprofessional for a portal site).

Overall, perhaps change the entire colour scheme to something more subdued and not flashy

Kubi

Apr 13 2007, 05:38 AM

I'm confuzzled. You abandoned this site? Yet you want it reviewed?

scan06disk

Apr 13 2007, 12:45 PM

lol let me rephrase i don't update anymore, but i still keep a watch over it for errors !

bk2070

Apr 13 2007, 07:58 PM

it could be much better with more work, if you need any help then Pm me since there is more you can do with it like everybody already has said

Smack

Apr 16 2007, 07:04 AM

Your site appears to be very simple. I assume you made this site for beginning users of the internet - those who do not know how to find games to play, how to search for information, etc. If this is the case you need to practice easy navigation, readability, and fast load time. You should draw more attention to the menu while not making it over gaudy to where it takes long to load. The music page takes too long to load and should be set up on different pages, a different page for each player maybe with the main music page containing a html table with a hotlink to each music player on your webpage.

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