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LessonInLife.com - Please review this blog

Discussion in 'Websites' started by banji, Feb 28, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi guys,

    If you have an extra time today, please have a look at my site - LessonInLife.com and maybe review it for me to further improve the blog

    I am looking advice in particular on
    1) Content
    2) The overall design

    It is my goal currently to increase the number of subscribers, so a general question to you - With that level of content, would you think about subscribing?

    Thanx a lot guys
     
    banji, Feb 28, 2008 IP
  2. kashifmahmood

    kashifmahmood Well-Known Member

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    The content as well as the design is great . Nice work :)
     
    kashifmahmood, Feb 28, 2008 IP
  3. banji

    banji Well-Known Member

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    Kasihifmahmood : thanks for the review...:) is there anything else I can improve on?
     
    banji, Feb 28, 2008 IP
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    I like the content, and the design is good. For some reason the header did take the longest time to load though. Overall, nice site.
     
    ohmer, Feb 28, 2008 IP
  5. banji

    banji Well-Known Member

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    Ohmer - thank you for the feedback. I noticed that too, I realiized it behaving that way since I updated my wordpress. any idea how to rectify?
     
    banji, Feb 28, 2008 IP
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    Hi,
    I had a good look at your website and read a few blogs as well.

    The design part is ok. It is a simple, clean design with no unnecessary stuffs. The color combination, layout everything is fine.

    But, I wasn't satisfied with the contents.
    The topics that you have chosen are worth mentioning. But, the amount (quantity) is less.
    I feel something like this :: we start reading the blog ... by the time when we get ourselves deeply involved in it ... it ends.... so it fails to leave a mark.

    Try to add up more content with your future blogs. At the same time don't try to add too much and make it over-dozed as well.

    But, I must definitely appreciate the quality of those blogs. Those blogs were worth reading more than once.

    I must not have any hesitation in becoming a member. Bookmarked your site.
     
    rajesh1811, Feb 29, 2008 IP
  7. banji

    banji Well-Known Member

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    Rajesh1811 - Thank you for visiting and for the constructive feedback. But I'm not very sure what you meant by that. Currently I am posting very consistently at 1 post per day. Do you think I should post more?

    Or, maybe you are referring to some entries that may have no conclusion? If it is not too much trouble, care to elaborate more on this, perhaps highlighting which entries are you referring to..

    I owe you big time for this. :)
     
    banji, Feb 29, 2008 IP
  8. Mr. Javo dot Com

    Mr. Javo dot Com Peon

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    Hey banji, I your blog design is pretty good, although I think you should place the category widget more at the top of the blog. Also you should try to add some 125x125 spaces for private advertising...

    About the content, this is good, it's nice for reading. I like the idea of placing a personal note at the end of each post. Keep improving!
     
    Mr. Javo dot Com, Mar 1, 2008 IP
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    Nice domain..you picked a catchy domain. Good work for the topics!
     
    sanytatious, Mar 1, 2008 IP
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    banji Well-Known Member

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    Mr Javo dot Com - your suggestion on the category widget is noted. However I prefer to have my recent post there since I posted daily, so visitors can straight away see what they miss.

    About the private advertising, thanx... ill be working on it real soon. Anybody want to advertise? :)

    sanytatious - thanx.. hope to be able to live it up
     
    banji, Mar 2, 2008 IP
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    I did try to open your blog, took up to 7 seconds to see the content, I had to refresh once. I think you should move to a better server, recommend you try HostGator.com
    Content looks fine, design too.

    Good luck!
     
    netx, Mar 2, 2008 IP
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    i visited your site. It has a good contents in it with the images. keep it up and overall layout is also good but you can put more attractive templates.
     
    jitenw, Mar 2, 2008 IP
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    banji Well-Known Member

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    netx - took 7 seconds? Can anyone else confirm that, because it only loads less than 3 seconds for me. Anyway, thanx for the heads up. I will look into it :)

    jitenw - thanx for the review. It may be a while before I change the templates. :)
     
    banji, Mar 2, 2008 IP
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    your blog design is good
     
    hindu, Mar 2, 2008 IP
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    banji Well-Known Member

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    hindu - thank you for dropping by :)

    I cordially invite anyone else to have a visit... it's always nice to meet new friends
     
    banji, Mar 3, 2008 IP
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    Hi

    I like your blog alot, I think content is fine especially the article on sleep patterns, I enjoyed that!
    The page loads quickly and I think the layout is good

    Good luck with your blog :)
     
    kazzikoo, Mar 3, 2008 IP
  17. Paule

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    Nice clean blog, spoilt a bit with the chat box but that's your choice :eek:
     
    Paule, Mar 3, 2008 IP
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    I like the right hand side of the blog - the posts individually separated -
    great for my eyes.

    The font on the left hand side, though - hmmm. It seemed to squished or too
    close to the Recently Written section. Perhaps an additional space between
    each paragraph in the posts would help. Just my two cents.

    I appreciate the original content!

    Auntie
     
    auntie, Mar 3, 2008 IP
  19. banji

    banji Well-Known Member

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    kazzikoo - I also enjoyed that piece. But to tell you the truth, I never actually believe in associating behavior with anything. Personally, I think everyone believe what they want to believe. I actually did an experiment to prove just that. And the Sleeping Pattern article is actually meant to highlight that. :)

    Thank you though for the generous review



    Paule - thanx for visitting. The chat box does make it a bit unprofessional don't you think? Well, my intention is to make it very easy to communicate with me. I will only remove it if the spam is out of control.



    auntie - I totally understand that squished feeling. Any idea how to unsquished it?

    Again, thank you for the comment.



    Guys - Any other comments and review is greatly appreciated
     
    banji, Mar 4, 2008 IP
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    I would just like to add something to this thread. I think the design as well as content is good.
    What I would add is a slogan?? I think the domain name itself won't explain what your site is about initially.
    Having a catchy slogan and logo will help BRAND you.
     
    ryanm, Mar 4, 2008 IP