Please Review Discover Thailand

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    Original content, photo gallery, news page and I am planning to add a blog and forum at a later date

    What do you think? Any suggestions to make it better?

    http://www.discoverthailand.biz/
     
    gfn, Oct 17, 2010 IP
  2. Cruize

    Cruize Peon

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    look good but slow
     
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  3. Richie_Ni

    Richie_Ni Illustrious Member

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    seriously it looks like it was created in the 90s
     
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  4. gfn

    gfn Member

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    Thanks for your reply and directness :), which part do you think makes it look like its from the 90s? The design, header, footer, content etc? What would you do to make it look like its from the 10s?
     
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    I Think need to change its color and layout.
     
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    some changes should be possible.
     
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    etc Well-Known Member

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    indeed it needs changes. i think the navigation might just look good if it were on top horizontally. so forum link will be noticed right away.
     
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  8. gfn

    gfn Member

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    Thanks for the feed back and suggestions so far :)

    Anything is possible but what changes would you suggest?

    What colour do you suggest?
     
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  9. JamesColin

    JamesColin Prominent Member

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    #9
    I don't like .biz extensiosn but I can overlook that.
    The header graphic is nice. The one at the bottom is badly cut, you should use the features of a png file with alpha channel transparence, make it glows, easy with photoshop, I can do it for you if you'd like.
    I don't mind the green as it is my favorite color with blue, and this green theme is good looking to me.
    You should clearly modify the colors of the adsense to match the theme (more green, hooray!)
    In your article page, as well on your homepage, use text-align:justify I think it looks better if the text takes all width, other might disagree, but newspapers do that.
    There is nothing to learn content-wise about thailand on your site. I know because I lived in thailand for a significant amount of time and I'm returning to live there in a few months, so over the years I've read quite a bit, and the information presented in your site is really poor, but I hope it is only because it's new.
     
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  10. gfn

    gfn Member

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    Cool excellent suggestions, thank you. I will work thro all of them. In regards to the content I used Indian Writers Company for it but I had to quickly rewrite most of it as it was very poor quality and a lot didn't even make sense. Congrats on your planned return to TH country, Im sure that you are looking forward to that. I too lived in TH for over 10 years, first running a fast food company and then running a Prawn Farm, so I have lots of good content that I will be adding as I write it. The main focus of the site will be the forum once its added. I hope one day to build it like Thai Visa which would be a massive job to achieve but I think if presented professionally it could take off as an alternative

    In regards to the footer, yes I noticed that it was cut a little badly, how much would it cost for you to do it with the glow? :)
     
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  11. JamesColin

    JamesColin Prominent Member

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    I'd do it for free, in exchange you could register on my new site in my sig and post a top x something :)
    only if you want, otherwise i do it for nothing, up to you, but it's an opportunity for you to try it.
     
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  12. gfn

    gfn Member

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    ok that's great, Ive created a Top 5
     
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  13. JamesColin

    JamesColin Prominent Member

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    #13
    Please send me an email via the contact form on my site, so I can give you the updated graphic, I don't know if it will works better, if not I can do small fixes to it, just ask.
     
    JamesColin, Oct 19, 2010 IP
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    the concept looks less attractive. However, the info is complete. but it makes me want to visit thailand. hehe
     
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    Thanks to wwwSENSERELYcom the site has a new footer. It looks much cleaner now :)
     
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    Looks nice, I see there's a glitch on bottom-right, but that is a small details.
     
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  17. gfn

    gfn Member

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    I can see that now. The hill stops mid air
     
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  18. gfn

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    Thanks for all the feed back. I have changed the domain name from BIZ to ASIA as was suggested and will move all the content across shortly

    http://www.discoverthailand.biz/ to http://www.discoverthailand.asia/

    The new site has a completely new design

    http://www.discoverthailand.asia/

    And the forum has a matching design as well

    http://www.discoverthailand.asia/forum/

    What do you think of the new design? and how does the forum look on your computer / screen resolution / browser? (the reason that I ask is that the forum header is made up of 3 separate images)
     
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    i like the asian babe... they are so pretty
     
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  20. gfn

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    Just got a promo video made up for the forum

    [video=youtube;li0H1b7gwuI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li0H1b7gwuI[/video]
     
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