Could Someone Please Review My Site. - Help...what did i do wrong?

chappill

May 17 2008, 10:02 PM

So i followed jlhaslip's advice and got rid of the .tk domain, still no more visitors. I've told everyone on my contact list, posted it to blogs and forums and still not many people visit my site... What's wrong with it, i just spent 30 minutes (not long but hey) re-vamping the forum so its now friendly to guests (i think that might of been a mistake but hey). It has 95 ish good working games, a guest book, its on Google, it has a search engine, contact us form about us form nearly everything i can think of.

So please tell me whats wrong with it and what i can do to make it better =]

Thanks in advance.

:/ oops i forgot a link, excuse me please =] http://www.chappill.trap17.com/.

And i would buy a domain but I'm 14 and have no paypal =[

jlhaslip

May 17 2008, 10:27 PM

You might want to post a link here in this topic, and also place a link in your signature, too.

kobra500

May 17 2008, 10:41 PM

Content, Content, Content.

If you have good content then with a bit of advertising you will get visitors. If your serious about this then I suggest buying a domain

.com/.org/.net are the best in my opinion!

Good Luck!

sunshineseeker

May 18 2008, 09:48 PM

QUOTE(chappill @ May 17 2008, 11:02 PM)

So please tell me whats wrong with it and what i can do to make it better =]

Thanks in advance.

I don't think you have done anything wrong with your site. I think you could improve it by making the navigation more consistent though.

When you click a link to contact us, or about us, the navigation menu disappears. One of the things with 'web usability' is that the user feels comfortable within the site and gets a consistent browsing experience.

So i'd try and keep the pages similar to each other.

Getting visitors to the page can be hard. As Kobra said, content, content, content! That is what will bring visitors. I'd rather read a review written by yourself, a story or pictures you've made, rather than play flash games. Or try and make your forum a place for unique discussion to take place. Like game development, or retro game discussion...and then advertise that, and put that in google keywords, etc.

For 14 I have to say you are doing ok. You have a massive head-start on most of the people here, and better than my first site. i've only just started with php and i'm nearly double your age =p

chappill

May 21 2008, 04:13 PM

Thanks for all your feedback, I've been through all the possible pages and about us, live chat and games are now looking some what neater, what do you think to the new pages?

Plenoptic

May 21 2008, 04:24 PM

The site looks OK but I would recommend creating a name and putting up a banner rather than just having the ads on top. I would recommend putting the contact form on your site itself with the same design and just have it coded for you or code it yourself so it is easier to return to the rest of the site. The games are fun but when I tried to play one the high scores never finished loading and there was no way to return back to the game page or to restart the game even.

chappill

May 22 2008, 03:26 PM

http://chappill.trap17.com/banner.gif

Would that be a suitable banner, and the only reason there are adverts is because its on banner swap.

Ddraiggoch06

May 22 2008, 05:54 PM

The site looks ok, and so does the forum, but they don't integrate with each other. This is a minor problem really, but it seems like they are not linked. Also, you don't have a huge amount of content. Content is the key to a successful site. No content, no visitors, it's as simple as that. And while you do have some content, try adding more and spice things up a little. Visitors only visit sites if they have something to do there, and so the more content the more visitors.

etycto

May 23 2008, 11:02 PM

your site is really cool the desighn is fine but i'd go for something a little bit different, if your site is mostly about fun and stuff the look should reflect that. one big thing i noticed is that your homepage link tend to change i get the sceem but keep it in the same order for every page. the forum now is http://chappill.trap17.com/phpBB3/ i'd advice changing it to http://chappill.trap17.com/forums/ and also changing the desigh also give it a name like "the chapill forum" or something. what's with that proxy site thing i think i get it but it's kind random. i see everything has a different sighn in page why dont you try to make them all the same. i like the games there really cool. i'll add you site to my blogroll and whenever i update the site i'll add a the game link to it i like it keep up the work maybe that might help you get more. also if you're getting money for the ads a ".com" domain wouldnt hurt.

hitmanblood

May 23 2008, 11:45 PM

Among the others I have also took libery to take a look at your site. So here are my impressions.

OK first thing if you are keeping your site and other parts like your forum and your blog together then you should consider all of them having the same skin. Thias approves appeal and looks better. Other thing is that you have to add some dynamic content this way you will be able to show all of your visitors that it is active site and blog and not just some other thing made for five minutes of fame and then forgotten from his creator.

Other thing is forum to make working forum it is really hard why? well people don't like to register accounts and many experienced forum persons use their forums like trap17. I am using trap17 for something longer then a year and this is the main reason why I will not go to some other forum and register. I've got everything here and it is working fine. I've got my hosting here and its completly OK I do not need anything more. Well I need but I hope you get my point.

And one more important thing that I have noticed is that you've got mixed links what I mean with that well man you've got links to your sites and some other sites all mixed together you should get them all together this looks nice but separete them in categories this will help a lot.

And now to the last problem. Why don't you get any visitors since google is crawling all the web there are many people who put their sites on the internet. And the most important thing with the site is that you've got unique but unique is so ahrd thing to find today well then you need innovative idea but that is also used then you definetly need something rare and that you are good at it. So go skirmish soemthign that you are good in and work it out start writing adding content and people will start comming.

Now my site recieves several thousand visitors a day. And in the beginnning there were none. You have to work on your site and even if you find something innovative you must wait people need time to come and get acustomed to your site.

Good luck to your site,
Hitman

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tracdoor

Jun 7 2008, 12:57 PM

It looks like your using over people script's instead of using your own; your contact form isn't made by yourself, nor are the forums or the games, this not only makes it look very unprofessional and unwelcoming, but also makes it look like an amateur attempt, but because your 14 I guess its okay.

Also why do you have adverts on there? that makes it look even worse!

The chat isn't yours either, with a bit of PHP knowledge you could create all of that yourself, and give it a feel of your website, each page seems to have a different theme, not helped at all by using other people's scripts.

People have probably visited, but have no reason to come back, perhaps make a members area where you have to register, login, etc...

This would make a world of difference!

chappill

Jun 5 2008, 09:15 PM

Dude you just copied my first post and thats it... Not being mean or out just... yeah abit random?

ejroley

Jun 5 2008, 07:50 PM

QUOTE(chappill @ May 17 2008, 06:02 PM)

chappill

Jun 5 2008, 05:25 PM

All the banners are there on banner swap, im going to get rid of the one on the top in the next few days, I have just updated the 'Games!' area of the site so it corresponds with the homepage, tell me what you think (I've been away eating so sorry for the late post).

amirborna

Jun 5 2008, 04:55 PM

Oops didn't see my bad.
First thing you should do is get a badass blue banner that is nice

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y94/Tenku...a/BANNERRyu.png

something of the sorts, doesn't have to be a render on there just some nice abstract that pops out, goes good with the black.

If you get my drift

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