my girlfriends poem website, please review

Discussion in 'Websites' started by tarponkeith, Jun 23, 2007.

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    I helped a little, but am trying to get her more interested in computer stuff... Hoping that having a website bringing in pennies a day through adsense can help peak the interest, as I believe computers will dominate all aspects of the career world in the near future...

    www.handville.com
     
    tarponkeith, Jun 23, 2007 IP
  2. talvehtia

    talvehtia Well-Known Member

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    A little pessimistic but nice design you have :) I liked the blocks and your logo. Try to put some banners or adsense ads next to your logo.
     
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    Are the poems quite dark?

    The template is.. grundgey.. the font is hard to read (look for a better one at dafont.com)
     
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    mgrohan Active Member

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    Nice, simple n clean design. A bit dark and 'gothic like', but this seems to go in vein with the content of the poems, so i guess it fits.
     
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    simple and clean design but try to add more poems.
     
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    Saurin Active Member

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    Design is G8.. and liked name of site.. can sell name to get good amount.. lol...but I doubt there is much content I can see..
     
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    Nice and simple design... good work,
    truly speaking, I don't like dark backgrounds, but your site is so simple that background is no more issue.
    some suggestions,
    if your poems are more than 20 / 25, then the height of box on left side is going to increase, and the partner box will move down, and it is the place where you can place Advertises
    so I will suggest to put the poems into the categories and show the category name instead of poem name on the left side.
    if the poem is not going to have more width, then utilize the space on right side.
     
    rushi, Jun 28, 2007 IP
  8. tarponkeith

    tarponkeith Well-Known Member

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    Categoryies. Good idea, thanks rushi!

    No, not much content yet...

    Already on it! Thanks!

    Thanks... The poems aren't THAT dark, haha...

    thanks for the font advice, I installed a couple but they were all worse, and that took a while, so I'll do more font searching later...

    Like on the top right corner of the page? Do people like clicking up there? thanks!
     
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    Some text is same as the bg color..change it, otherwise it cant see the users
     
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    It looks sort of bare doesn't it?
     
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    maybe i'm blind! can't read the text.. maybe colors are a bit messed up.
     
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    :) what he said


    Mark
     
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    is this running on wordpress or something similar? i would do something to emphasize the content a bit more. right now the ads stuck out the most to me. the ad was the same size as the content. good luck with it. search through here for some seo optimization tips, might help (clean urls, proper meta tags, etc.) cheers.
     
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    The site is really dark. There's not necessarily a problem with that, but there's also no color and it just seems really bare. I have a widescreen monitor, so the right 50% of the screen is empty.

    I don't know if labeling Google ads as "Partner Sites" is permissible per Adsense's TOS. You may want to check into that, it's definitely borderline imho.

    I like "Second Chances" by the way.
     
    amsteve, Jul 2, 2007 IP