Please review my website and Twitter App

Discussion in 'Websites' started by steevjohnson, May 19, 2011.

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    The site is http://easyretweet.com

    It's not a blog by the way
    It's a custom script I wrote myself in PHP

    Thank you guys for your opinions and proposals
     
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    #2
    Layout is a little minimalistic, but everything is well organized. Posts are very informative, too.
     
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    #3
    Thanks Aelle

    Font: 12px Arial

    Maybe I should step up a bit?
     
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    Hmm, well I meant the overall design (you could smooth out the transition between the white area of your posts and the light blue of your background with a drop shadow, for instance) but now that you mention it, the text is a little small for my resolution (1920x1080). I think I'm the exception to the rule though because my resolution is meant for gaming/watching HD movies and not reading blogs. It wouldn't hurt to increase the fonts by two pixels, though.
     
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    ok thanks

    just to find out, did you sign up to test the functionalities too?

    I could give offer you 15 additional credits. this way, you can even publish a banner. (I got $37 affiliate commission already from one sale resulting from the banner this morning)
     
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    I doubt I would be of much help testing those functionalities, as I rarely use my twitter account. I did sign up though and looked through some of the user control panels; it seems to be pretty straight-forward. One question though...to buy credits, I see you use Paypal. Is it a business or personal account? If it's personal, I would recommend upgrading to a business account (it's free) so your users can have the option of paying with debit/credit if they don't have a paypal account.

    Edit: Ah, I also noticed that when clicking the buttons it sends me to a French paypal site. That might be a bit confusing since your site is in English.
     
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    Yes I noticed when you signed up with a pretty new Twitter account. though you said you are not really a Twitter user, let me know if I should go ahead and credit your account

    The paypal I use now is personal but as you said, I will upgrade.

    thanks for your time. You are contributing to my success
     
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    What exactly are the credits used for? If you have credit related functionalities, you can credit my account and I'll test them for you.
     
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    Credits are used for two things:
    1) To allow others retweet your message
    What I mean is that you can create a message (including your affiliate links, websites, etc).Then set an amount of credits to be shared to members who retweet the message. Other members will retweet the message to their followers to earn the credits. This brings you great exposure.

    2) You can also use the credits to publish your banners on the site. 1 credit for 1000 125x125 banner impressions and 2 credits for 1000 468x60 banner impressions.
    I intend to add more features.

    When you signed up, you had 3 free credits
    I will add 12 to make it 15

    If you are into affiliate marketing, you may pick a 125x125 banner of any of your products that's targeted and publish. Add 10 credits to it

    Then the other five credits, set any message that other members will retweet to their profiles.

     
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    #10
    I've set a retweet message for five credits. Everything worked smoothly, but I recommend changing the wording and the positioning of these three blocks:

    How much credits you offer members who retweet this message - Should be how many credits would you like to offer members who retweet this message and aligned above the input box.
    Total credits allocated for this message - Wording is fine, but should be aligned above the actual input box.
    RTBase:Members with less followers should not RT you Again, aligned above the input box. You should work on the wording for this too, though I'm not sure what to suggestion. Maybe '*input box* followers required to retweet your message' or something.

    People tend to look above or to the left/right of the input boxes rather than below them for a label or explanation. I was a little confused as first as to what each input box was for. If you do leave the text below the input boxes, I'd recommend putting some more space between each input box for clarity.
     
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    Done and thanks

    Now for your message, I propose you delete and republish it
    this time, use http://dualityguild.com instead of dualityguild.com
    This way, the url will be clickable
     
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    I'm stepping out
    Will be back in about 1 hour
     
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    Done. You might also want to add text labels next to the 'delete' and 'view starts' icons. Had to mouse over them to see what they were.
     
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