Please Review my IT knowledgebase Site

Discussion in 'Websites' started by Chalkywhite, Sep 13, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi all, a month or so i asked for people to review my site, people said the content was very good but the look and feel was poor.

    Since then ive did a full rebuild and Im currently restoring my content..

    here is the site..

    your thoughts?

    http://www.techieshelp.com/

    ps - i know there is no logo on the header, that is still being drawn up!

    thanks
     
    Chalkywhite, Sep 13, 2010 IP
  2. TurnThisMotherOut

    TurnThisMotherOut Greenhorn

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    It can look very nice once you get a logo, try a background which separates the bg and the website more, also take some of the content away from the homepage, have a more direct focus.
     
    TurnThisMotherOut, Sep 13, 2010 IP
  3. internetworkshop

    internetworkshop Peon

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    Is this a knowledge base or an Adsense farm?

    As a former "techie" of twenty years I have to be perfectly honest -I would spend about 5 minutes on this site and dismiss it as a joke. Here's why:

    Keep in mind your target audience are "techies" - these are guys/gals who ALREADY have a very good understanding of the basic fundamentals of the concepts on your site. You did mention that you're in the process of uploading your content again, so the following comment is based on the content that's on it as of today:

    As a techie, there is nothing your site offers me. A "knowledge base" should be exactly that - a site overflowing with content and knowledge for users on many levels - beginner, intermediate and advanced. Your site only offers some beginning knowledge that any techie would already know, or can find in three seconds by searching Google. Also, I tried searching your site for some very rudimentary info that ANY knowledge base should have and got no results. I Googled the same topics and got hundreds of hits. Here were three basic searches I did:

    Active Directory Integration in Exchange 2007
    Creating a roaming profile
    How to export a .pst file

    Any REAL knowledge base would have returned tons of information and "how to" instructions.

    So to put it bluntly, your "knowledge base" has no value - it's simply a site with a bunch of Adsense links and no knowledge. Anytime a techie comes to a knowledge base they have an immediate problem that most likely is costing the company they work for or one of their clients money - no techie is remotely going to be interested in clicking on an Adsense ad.

    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you're not a techie yourself?
     
    Last edited: Sep 14, 2010
    internetworkshop, Sep 14, 2010 IP
  4. betazonredefine

    betazonredefine Peon

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    Your Blog is full of helpful IT knowledge. Which plugin you used for slide show of featured posts? It is looking very stylish.
     
    betazonredefine, Sep 14, 2010 IP
  5. Chalkywhite

    Chalkywhite Peon

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    All that content was on the other site as is updating, ill pm yourself when its up.

    To answer your qeustion yes I am, im an enterprise messaging consultant for hewlett packard.

    Im mcse 2003, mcitp 2008, mcitp exchange 2007/2010 and a VMware certified profesional.


    If you google allenwhite78 ( me) you will find references to my work over the last 16 years across most of the IT communities.

    So, yes you could class me as a techie

    with regads to adsense there are no mare than 2 250x250 links on each page,NONE which are withing the article content.
     
    Chalkywhite, Sep 14, 2010 IP
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    anjartrest Peon

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    its beautiful website
    very informative post


    nice
     
    anjartrest, Mar 16, 2012 IP
  7. Irfi0009

    Irfi0009 Banned

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    nice information really helpful
     
    Irfi0009, Mar 17, 2012 IP