I want to introduce a new site for freelancers. it is very very new. you can see the site in this address polylance.com The site collects all projects information from freelancing sites. So you can see all of freelancing projects in one place. You can see the projects coming in the sites immediately by choosing Live on the top of the projects page. You can also filter the projects by choosing some options. Filtering needs Free membership. Currently it has 6 sites covered: ELance, GetACoder, GetAFreelancer, iFreelance, RentACoder and ScriptLance Please donate to keep the site alive and help us to extend its futures.
Your layout fits the type of site you're running and was surprisingly easy to read. What concerns me is your navigation. When I first got to your page I was hit with "latest projects page 1-11". I clicked last button to find that there are 425 pages to look through. I was very happy to see the search link and the search found what I was looking for nicely. What I would recommend though is have your search more out in the open. You can do this by removing the search link you have now and adding a regular search box with a advanced search button where you currently have your social bookmarks. and relocate your social bookmarks to under the register link on your left navigation bar. The advance search button would link to your current search page. Hope you can follow what I'm trying to say. Other then that the only thing I saw you needed to work on was the SEO on the site as there was none to really speak of that I saw.
Thank you Amxfan, Your idea about search box is great. I am working on it right now. I also working on the layout to make some changes. for example I want to move the menu from left to top right. then I can place a search box on that place. please feel free to give me more ideas about the site.
Your business model of asking for donations is ridiculous. Although your site is interesting; I don't see the point in it. There are many aggregators out there. How will you stand apart? Over all nice colors and theme.
Hi thestrangefruit, There is a lot of differences between polylance and other sites. for example, you can turn on LIVE and be noticed with a song when a project comes. You can turn FILTERS on to see only projects in your skills and ... Also you can see polylance has many more information about the projects than other site like buyer rating, price limits and ... We want to add most of freelancing sites and we have a lot of futures in mind to add to the site like multilanguage, supporting mobile phones, RSS output for each users and ... . but it is very hard to work on a site without any revenue. We also have to pay for hosting service, design, programming and some other things. We thought the only way to keep the site alive is donations til we can make money with advertisements and affiliates. I hope I could explain why we add donations on the site.
To be honest, there is some other sites collects freelancing jobs. but I think our site is very far better.
A very good thinking. Site is going to be very helpful for me. Well site has a simple look but it fulfills all the basic requirement of a junior freelancer like me... i will rate it 9/10
I love the clean layout on your site. Additionally, the LIVE feature is cool, never seen it on another site before. Good work, and thanks!