Dave, I will agree that the chitika and google ads are in good placements. But I think your content deserves a better design, in my opinion the solarflare 2 colors (on the mambo version atleast) are terrible on the eyes and the news posts are a little cluttered. If I were you I would change up the colors and make your own banner instead of just adding text to the default one. If you need help you can pm me.
Actually I did make my own banner. I'll consider changing the colors... Does anybody else have a problem with colors being too shiny?
After much consideration and reading the reviews on forums I decided for SiteGround.com to be my web hosting service.
One thing (since it appears to be new since I've last checked) - you may want to check the placement of your feedback request box. Currently, it's at the bottom of the right-side column's content. However, you've got nothing but ads in this column. On the other hand, it did catch my eye. So, with that said, a) how long have you had it up and b) how much attention has it gained (from a stats point of view)? Attention would be both views to the question's page, as well as actual submissions. I think, by the way, that the colour's work - it's quite the eye-catcher, yet is still readable.
I had 150 uniques (webalizer) since I put it on (3 days ago), still no submission, so I guess it's hard to say anything. I really need more traffic... Well, you can help by linking to my page I am preparing a page for webmasters with code for banners, buttons and tekst links to put on thair pages if they are willing to help me get more traffic.
Very nice site Dave maybe you should be giving me tips I wouldnt go overboard on the SEO side and spend more time on getting traffic as your site looks really well.
Thanks for compliment and good advice. I just finished the "link to us" page, where you can get code for links and banners to include in your pages. You can find it just below "join now" button. Please tell me what you think about it, everybody.
Here goes: 1) Instead of Your text here, put the text that you'd prefer. Sure, they can change it, but it's a good policy to have. 2) Width and height attributes on the images - very, very important. I'd suggest you add them via style, but your call. 3) Title attribute on the images. Sure, not all browsers use it, and those that do don't do so consistently, but it's the only way some people can see hover text over the images. 4) Where's the site navigation and site banner on this page? 5) Do you really want us to use the images on your server? The average smart Webmaster will copy the image and post it on our own server (to save your bandwidth). Do you want us to do this? I suggest language one way or the other. 6) List image sizes (KB) 7) Get rid of the space between "> <img - or not (pet peeve) 8) Why not have 'back' be a link back? You're displaying the referring page URL on the page, so it makes sense to just have 'back' be a link. ~
1. done 2. done 3. do you think the "alt" attribute in the <img> tab? 4. hm, page is just a jump, a sideway, from main page so I don't know if it is necessary, but I'll reconsider that option. 5. I am getting a web hosting service with huge bandwidth soon, so I think that will not ba a problem (I don't have much traffic ), and webmasters probablly preffer to have images loading from owners server at least I would 6. done 7. done 8. done Thank you so much strivinglife, your comments really help me a lot to improve the site.
Re 3: Yup, you can just use the alt text - at least that's what I typically do And no problem - glad I could be of assistance