In the recipes listings, make the title of each recipe more prominent. Also, for the directions put a period after each number I'm feeling very hungry looking at that site!
My rating: 7/10. I actually like the colors. And I like the clean, uncluttered layout. The site is a bit plain, but that's better than having tons of ostentatious filler. You might want to add more recipes, as well as give each recipe its own page so you can provide more information about each dish (its history, what it tastes like, etc.).
for me there is not fun, no colour, or graphics, the top banner is bland green space, i am not impressed with the bold black font, which is quite hard to read. or the white ads on the side, that table needs to be a different bg colour. why is that map of Italy there? your hyperlinks going red is a bad chioce against green and you have white punctuation after submit, and forumswhich you can't even see. you're right, 3.9 just kidding, but it does need some work.
well the site still has a way to go content wise. And I plan on adding a "Just added" section on the main page. I addead a bit more today to make it a bit less bland and its not going to stay stagnant like a lot of sites... au contraire.
strangely the only page i don't really like is the homepage, all the rest look ok. Content is king, secondary only to anchor text ...and PR
Take the map of Italy, make an image map that fits the culinary regions, and allow people to click on the region to see a list of that area's signature dishes.
I'd try to do something to lift it above your typical made for adsense recipe site. Not sure what, but something - other than a reason to click away.
ok! i have started a newthread to reate mine.. thanks for movin the previous one if you are doin so! reagrds joshu
In terms of the design, i'll give you a 5. Your design is too plain and it would really be a turn off, try getting a similar design with the same colour scheme (i love it) but make it more interactive. I've gone through the recipes, they seem alright.
The things I will change if the site was mine : #1. The bold text . It will be much better to read if the text from recipes was not all bolded. I will do only the subtitles bolded (Ingredients: , Description #2. I will put something in the header .. it's to empty #3. I don't know if it's only on my screen but the image links.gif looks weird .. I think it's exported with too few colors and there are some transparent dots which must be green... #4. The title of every receips ( ie. Traditional tomato sauce ) I will do it bigger, the green row where the title is it must be bigger than the font size a simple way to do it : ( padding: 3px 0 3px 0; ) Maibe a good idee is to move the image of every recips to the right ... but not sure Hope that my opinion helps you much more than a number x/10