News Aggregator Needs Review

Discussion in 'Reviews' started by Blogzoro, Mar 28, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hi,
    Wanted to let you know that I released http://newszela.com to public. It's a news aggregator that is very similar to Google News, Techmeme and other news aggregators. What I think it's cool about newszela is that it has voting system, everyone can add the site if it has quality content no mater how popular site is. On top of that you can search feeds by keyword and rule out the duplicated content on search query.

    Currently is No-Follow but will be Do-Follow soon.
    Please review and let me know what you think.
     
    Blogzoro, Mar 28, 2011 IP
  2. momentio

    momentio Peon

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    Your site is pretty good, and I only have some minor suggestions:

    I would like the logo more if it didn't get bigger on the right side. It looks almost like one of these boxing gloves that pop out ;).

    spelling: "In the last 4 hours"

    The text of the links to the other sites on each post is very small. It's size 6 or something.

    The formatting is sometimes not perfect when the headline or the link go over two lines.

    Maybe move the popular post section to the left, so the visitor can see it immediately when landing on the page, without having to scroll down.

    Other than that, I really like the simple and clear design of your site.
     
    momentio, Mar 28, 2011 IP
  3. Blogzoro

    Blogzoro Active Member

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    @Momention Thanks man, really appreciate that. Will fix the spelling :)
     
    Blogzoro, Mar 28, 2011 IP
  4. nihangshah

    nihangshah Prominent Member

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    #4
    Change the logo.
    Make it 2 column.
    Add Twitter/Facebook buttons.
     
    nihangshah, Mar 28, 2011 IP
  5. Blogzoro

    Blogzoro Active Member

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    @nihangshah: Thanks, will look into that. (Twitter and FB logos are on single pages)
     
    Blogzoro, Mar 28, 2011 IP
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    Johnson Active Member

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    It's very 1999 + Facebook in its styling.
     
    Johnson, Mar 29, 2011 IP
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    usmanmalik Peon

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    very nice I suggest Facebook button ad and social bookmarking button ad
     
    usmanmalik, Mar 29, 2011 IP
  8. Blogzoro

    Blogzoro Active Member

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    @Johnson: Is that good or bad or both? :)
    @usmanmalik: I will add buttons on front page, but just so you know there is social bookmarking button already added if you click on one of the posts.
    Example: Here
     
    Blogzoro, Mar 30, 2011 IP
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    cnetinfosystem Peon

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    Look like blank website you need to placed some user attractive images which increase your stand time on website...
     
    cnetinfosystem, Apr 1, 2011 IP
  10. pushtotalk

    pushtotalk Greenhorn

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    which script are you using? rssreader? I'd try and customize it a bit further I think, add a few more features and make it look a little more interesting
     
    pushtotalk, Apr 3, 2011 IP