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Please Critique my new blog - charly-bird.com

Discussion in 'Websites' started by bareket57, Feb 14, 2011.

  1. #1
    Greetings :)

    I've just set up my new blog Charly-Bird.com and I would appreciate it if you could give me your feedback.

    Thanks :p
     
    bareket57, Feb 14, 2011 IP
  2. swotin

    swotin Peon

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    #2
    Not bad ... but need some face lift
     
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  3. bareket57

    bareket57 Peon

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    #3
    Thank you so much for taking the time to look at my blog. What do you suggest I do to give it a face lift? What exactly needs to be changed?

    Thanks :)
     
    bareket57, Feb 14, 2011 IP
  4. Rapid Workforce UK

    Rapid Workforce UK Peon

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    #4
    I like your blog but if you want to make it better then you could always update it. A good way of doing this would be to download a free wordpress template of your choosing and edit it to make your blog better. If you need help doing this simply put the search term 'How To Tweak or Edit Your WordPress Theme' into Google and click on the first website which comes up in the search results which is a Youtube video link.
     
    Rapid Workforce UK, Feb 14, 2011 IP
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    joshuthomas Well-Known Member

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    #5
    Frankly, the blog design looks a few years older. You could find really good wordpress themes for free if you do a google. I would advice you personally to give the website a facelift on its looks.

    All the best buddy!
    Cheers, Josh
     
    joshuthomas, Feb 14, 2011 IP
  6. bareket57

    bareket57 Peon

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    Thanks for the advice :) What do you think of the color combination? I wanted the site to look both funky and exotic.
     
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    bareket57 Peon

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    Greetings Josh :)
    I just had a look at your blog - it's really a top quality blog. I've joined your FB fanpage and started following you on Twitter. Did you design the template of your blog?
     
    bareket57, Feb 14, 2011 IP
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    blogseller4u Banned

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    #8
    Great work but header could be much better..
     
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    #9
    The main problems design-wise are colour scheme (Purple links on green background, no ;)) and header.

    The header image quality is terrible, it has 4 different fonts in it (and they're all ugly), something a bit more professional as a header will make a huge difference to the entire site. It's also completely pink, which isn't echoed anywhere else in the site and makes it stick out like a sore thumb.

    Disclaimer: this is honesty in an attempt to help, I don't mean to sound rude :)
     
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    #10
    Your Welcome. The colours look great both funky and exotic. I see that you blog is for Parrot lovers, therefore you could always have a free wordpress parrot theme. A good example of this is if you put into Google the search term: 'wpskins Parrot-66' and select the 2nd one down from the results, this will give you a good example of what I mean. Alternatively another good example can be found if you put the search term: 'wordpress theme parrot 6' into Google and from the results select the 1st one on the list. I hope that this helps.
     
    Rapid Workforce UK, Feb 14, 2011 IP
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    I agree with the suggestion about the header. It is nicely monetized but in order to get others to advertise on the site in neds to contain information either funny (viral effect) or rare information attract potential buyers for your amazon income!
     
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    Thank you for being frank - I take it as constructive criticism :)
     
    bareket57, Feb 14, 2011 IP
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    #13
    Thanks for all the tips. The parrot themes are really nice. But Charly is an Umbrella Cacadu (aka Cockatoo) - I need a theme with a picture of a Cacadu. You've given me a lead - I'll do a search on Cacadu themes.
     
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    Thanks for the feedback. I completely agree that Charly's blog needs high quality information. The funny stuff will be Charlys videos and the "rare information" will be well researched wikipedia-style articles. I intend to add a page with book reviews and expert information on Cacadus.
     
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    Thanks for the feedback - I'll try to design a different header. I really liked that exotic looking flower and I wanted to incorporate it in my header.
     
    bareket57, Feb 14, 2011 IP
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    #16
    Hey Buddy,

    Thanks for the kind words! Thanks for the follow as well.
    The template was from Elegant Themes and i did work a lot on modifying the theme. Do PM me or directly contact @ my blog. in case you need any advice.

    cheers
    Josh
     
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    #17
    You definitely need more content and loads of traffic.
     
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    #18
    not bad, but for now is good
     
    musk_oxem, Feb 15, 2011 IP
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    #19
    Its all right, content is what people are interested in
     
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    #20
    nice blog,
    but why you add smile ":)" on your title tag?
     
    jatrasmara, Feb 17, 2011 IP