2 year old site....I wanna take it to the next level, any ideas or criticisms?

Discussion in 'Websites' started by ohmer, Jun 3, 2009.

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    Had my site Ohmcheck.com on the web about 2 years now, it does ok, but I would like take it to the next level, any ideas or things I should change? Thanks everyone.
     
    ohmer, Jun 3, 2009 IP
  2. ohmer

    ohmer Peon

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    #2
    no opinions from anyone????
     
    ohmer, Jun 4, 2009 IP
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    DnWebMarketplace Banned

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    #3
    You have good website, even you have a lot of image at your site, it load fast to me. My suggest is why not make your footer rounded like your header, it will looks balance mate. And your right sidebar looks very small space. Overall, you have great website mate. Good luck.

    Andy
     
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  4. ohmer

    ohmer Peon

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    Thanks, I will put some thought into those things. :)
     
    ohmer, Jun 4, 2009 IP
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    blackyboy Banned

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    hai ohmer your site very nice and themes simple cool :D
     
    blackyboy, Jun 4, 2009 IP
  6. ohmer

    ohmer Peon

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    Thanks, right now I am bringing in around 4 to 5 thousand visits a month. I would really like to double that for a start, is the only way to spend money advertising the site??
     
    ohmer, Jun 4, 2009 IP
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    wptheme Well-Known Member

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    #7
    I am on mozilla and the left sidebar seems to only show half. Are the articles unique? Add more good articles and add some interesting features like top 10 articles or an interactive feature. Exchange links with related sites niche. That helps a lot. Also target a few articles depending on popular titles. You can use Google Adword External Tool to help find relevant keywords. Goodluck.
    p/s- adding a shoutbox would be nice too :)
     
    wptheme, Jun 4, 2009 IP
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  8. ohmer

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    Thanks, all great advices, will work on these in the coming weeks.
     
    ohmer, Jun 4, 2009 IP
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    Hi,
    I have visited your site. I am Using Mozila Firefox. I can not view your category listing clearly. Is there is problem in my browser or in your site. ???????
     
    blowdata4u, Jun 4, 2009 IP
  10. subway33841

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    #10
    I like your site it is very useful.

    People -in general- if they need to solve problem, they will love to see how you solve it, they will be more interested in seeing it than readying about it. So I recommend to put the "How-to-Video" tab first and may be highlight it, you need every body to see it from the first impression.

    Good job.
     
    subway33841, Jun 4, 2009 IP
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    I would create a new logo possibly with some light gradients and change the hover navigation color from orange to a light blue.
     
    moviesunited, Jun 5, 2009 IP
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    The header of the web site and the content looks like part of section 2, independently from each other. I think you better try different designs in the content section.
     
    dephyr, Jun 8, 2009 IP
  13. ohmer

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    umm, ok. I think your trying to say that the header and the body of each page are seperate. If so, that was the look I was going for. Thanks for all the replies up to here.
     
    ohmer, Jun 8, 2009 IP
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    #14
    More content is really needed!
     
    OrdinaryZen, Jun 10, 2009 IP
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    #15
    add more contents....
     
    inspire_08, Jun 11, 2009 IP
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    Maybe add more and more videos? New subjects and a slow redesigning.
     
    Somnus, Jun 14, 2009 IP
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    #17
    Convert to a database. Bring your doctype up to a newer standered
    xhtml. Get rid of your inline style and tables covert everything to css.
    I mean the site is good it's just not up to date. Converting to a database driven website and php will make it a lot easier to update later.

    thats just my 2 cents
     
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    cool favicon and simple themes,,i like it.
     
    arediez, Jun 15, 2009 IP
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    i got no idea what u can do with i, but i like the way its set up. i guess just add relevant content
     
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  20. VivekMerani

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    Hi,

    While re-doing the website it is surely very important to re-align your thoughts and fine tune what you have been doing so far. 4-5K visits a months is good buy may not be good enough.

    I have some detailed thoughts on this that are posted here on this blog post - "Getting a Website made or re-designing one… Now need ideas about Online Advertising? Getting the right mix and sequence is important - Here is an easy step by step outline which also has some Free Online Advertising ideas!"
    http://blog.magnoninternational.com/online-advertising-ideas/

    This post lists down some latest Web 2.0 stuff that you could do. Let me know if we can be of any assistance. We bill at a very reasonable under $15 per hour!

    Best regards,
    Vivek
     
    VivekMerani, Jun 16, 2009 IP