Alright I just put together a basic guide for Beginners to Web Sites at http://sitenoob.50webs.com/ tell me what you think about it. Also tell me if you think I should add anything, the site is pretty much an outline at this point, and I would like to add more details if continue building it. If people like the idea I am thinking about purchasing the domain SiteNoob.com.
I had a difficult time finding the content on your site... - Black backgrounds make it difficult to read text - You have more advertisement on your site than content (big no go!!!) - You ads look identical to your content (second big no go!) - Your content font is way too small. Impossible to read on black background. It is even smaller than your ad font. - Your content is text, text and even more text. No offense, but this makes your site boring! - There is no navigation bar. You navigation are links in your content text. I found them when accidentally hovering over your text. Oh, now I noticed that you have a tiny navbar on top. I even didn't see that!!! And menu One Two Three means nothing to your visitors. Change it to useful menu names! If it wasn't for this review, I would have closed the site after 0.5 second. What you should do in my opinion - Change to a light background - Increase font size - Add a navigation bar - Add lists instead of plan text - Add some images - Add some color - Get rid of the ads - Create a contact form. Your email will get spammed From this first visit, I have the feeling you don't care about your visitors, but you are hoping to make some easy money...
Thank you for the suggestions, I just got bored and put together this site really quick so I was looking for some insight. I'm going to try and go back into Photoshop and lighten up the template.
Alright, I made the content section white, and changed the font color to a 12px black font. However, tell me if you like the Black with White Page, or the White with White Page
Alright, I just added a navigation bar, and what kind of images do you recommend me adding, do you mean something like a picture of a cash wad on the Profitting page?
Alright, I made a New Layout, since you guys suggested, for the site, tell me what you think now... http://sitenoob.com/images/newlayout.gif
Also, I don't really like using the term Brainstorm, what is a better, more professional term to describe the process of Thinking about what to make your site about.
What do you mean broken? The link? For some reason you have to click the link, then it will come up with "cannot find file" page, then you have to press enter in the address bar, and it displays the image.
No, no, that's the current layout, I'm talking about this new one http://sitenoob.com/images/newlayout.gif
Anyways, I just uploaded the new layout (SiteNoob.com). I still have a few modifications to make though. I think I'm going to add properties the tables I have, so it looks even a bit more professional.
The new design looks much better. The list of dofollow forums is nice, though the link to "digitalpoint forum" points to "sitepoint".