Hi.. i launched this website on 7th June 2007 and so far been doing good, I just wanted to get opinion of other DP users URL: http://www.celebs101.com/ P.S. any type of comment is acceptable, as long is beneficial in terms of improvement to the site.
My thoughts: -I really like the idea of this site! -At first glance the page is too busy. I don't know what to look at first. -The text in the header is hard to read. Change it to something dark and change the font. -Remove the "improve this site" banner or move it to the bottom so that it doesn't display unless I scroll. Having space for an advertisement, then this banner, and then the images right below the banner is just too much. -I think the text is a little small. I'd prefer to see a top 10 list and a larger font. -I think you have a lot of good content here but you could spread this over a few additional navigation pages and make it 10x easier to navigate. We don't need to see everything on the first page. (You'll probably notice that most of the best sites are fairly simple on the very first page--there is a reason for this---a busy page scares people and they don't know where to click---so they don't and they leave). -I love the high quality images but that will really eat at your bandwidth. I would certainly keep an option for the users to view these high quality images but initially load a lower quality image. There is no need to be loading 1888x2440px images and using the resize tag. That will only kill your bandwidth -I'm not sure if you need the comment feature and the tell a friend feature. I doubt many people will use it and having no comments there makes the site look empty. It also just adds sooo much stuff on the page. Maybe keep that but make it just a hyperlink to a talk page (which would be a thread to a forum maybe) and a thread to a tell a friend page. -The more I look at your header I think you could get rid of the whole thing. Run a contest on here and offer $10-$20 for the prize. You'll get some amazing results. This is an easy fix though...for now update your website. You want the designers to base their contest submissions off of the updated/finalized site layout. -I think the way to get traffic is to SEO each actor/actress's name. Can you make the popular ones celebs101.com/name ?? I don't think people will necessarily find your site generically in the search engine but rather your content pages. This is a good thing as you'll have many, many portals for entry!! Wow...I wrote a lot! I hope this helps. Feel free to PM me to talk more. Cheers
@mgrohan.. thanks! @myfrogger.. WOW!! I read your message maybe 10 times and i've figured it out finally what do you mean Basically the concept of header is that it will be random on every reload so i'm still working on more creative headers, will be online in a day or two. Surely, nice idea.. i'll remove that asap. I'll ask few other people about that but I guess that's ok with me! Well i used to think the otherway round.. present them everythin on one first so they have more options to go! but u are right i'm making everyone confused! hehe surely i can look into that once the website is grown, but at the moment I have plenty of bandwidth i geuess so that's not a big issue at the moment. Well you are right, it does make me look also the site is empty.. and people will not comment much.... so i guess i should remove it completely. putting hyperlink to a new thread will again not of much use so this function is burried.... well are u sure giving 10$ - 20$ will attract people? i doubt... i mean just wondering if you can give me more input on that i'll be very oblidged {wrong spelling ...}! well surprisingly i'm getting over ~1200 unique visitors / day and 30% of them are from Google.. usually terms like "celebrity name wallpaper" or some other similar keywords.. not by the actualy celebrity name. but implementing a /directory will be lot work... so i guess i'll leave that for meanwhile.
Hey love the site not only because the content interests me but anyway. Shocked!!!! Have 4 websites up and running and getting top in the searches for what i target them for but going to start moving on to international sites. Tell me butt out, but can u or anyone tell me what a website like that can make in revenue a year? Not going to copy the idea but working on something of a different subject. Cheers. Kevin WebMasters Mallorca