Thank you all for your nice comments. Is there anything you would add to the site? Is there anything you would remove from the site? Is there anything you especially like or dislike? Your comments would help us to make the site even better, so plese let me know.
Things I'd like to see added: 1) Reasonable guarantee or at least a hint as to how often the site is updated/news are posted. If I know that there is news posted once a day, I'd be very likely to visit your site once/day. Main and/or other pages could also say: "last updated on this date.." 2) Show us contents of previous newsletters. Why would I sign up for something you did not even describe? Ideally, I'd like to see a real sample to see if I want to go ahead and sign up. 3) Tell us about yourself: if you are an accomplished Directories expert why not say it and give a brief bio on the About Us page? 4) Add News Alerts, a mailing list for a daily/weekly digest of news that were posted during the previous day/week.
Thank you Liminal for your great suggestions. 1. We will let the users know how often the news are updated once we get the better feeling ourselves about the frequency. For know every news post is dated, and from the dates it is easy to figure out the frequency. 2. You are completely right about the newsletters. At this point we can't show an example because we didn't have any newsletters yet. Our first newsletter will come out in October of 2005. Once the newsletter is out we will certainly post a sample on the site and explain a little bit more about the newsletter content and the frequency. 3. Great suggestion. We will certainly do this in the near future. 4. Another great suggestion. News alert will be added in the near future. If anybody have more suggestions I would like to hear them. Thank you.