Hi, I want to become rather big. The bigger the better. I want lots and lots of visitors. I have now worked on this site at: http://www.simplysearch4it.com for around 4 years now. What do you think of it as a whole. Do you think the design looks good, do you think parts need improving. Do you like the articles section, games section, shopping price comparison directory, etc. What do you think of it? Please give your feedback. Thanks!
well first of edit the title of the thread.... thing should be "think" now about the site.... i really like that it fits very nicely in every resolution. when you press "e-cards" the design is different http://cards.hotplugins.com/4147/ I understand that it's not part of your site but maybe somehow add a header or change the background or something to make it look like your site. other wise everything is good.
Put a tagline or short paragraph on the front page that tells what makes your site different from the other search/directory sites.
site looks cool but try putting sharper images, specially of the toy. it doesn't give feeling of well maintained site IMHO
hmm.. the design looks alittle like a FP design, not that great and has no "wow-effect" You can get a chep template done with a beaut' design if you not abel to do it you self. serval forums has that services
What toy do you mean. Where is it located on the site. Is it on the home page? What does an FP design mean? Also, http://cards.hotplugins.com/4147/ is something that I added to my site when I first started it. Now that my site is becoming bigger and getting more traffic, I will be looking at replacing this content with my own content so that I am not giving this site any free money and also so that it is totally all my site.
The thing with templates that you buy online is that you use it and also other sites are likely to use the same one. With my site there is no other site on the Whole web using my web design. If they are then please let me know as I will tell them to take it down and if they don't I will take legal action. My site has been built and designed by myself through notepad. So doing this means that my site is unique and different from others in design wise. It is also likely to rank better than alot of other sites that use the same templates as many others.
Hope you remember my site from before. I have now redesigned the whole of the site to give it a more professional look and also made each section of the site the same colors to make it look like one whole site. Please could everyone reveiw my sites new design. This includes: http://articles.simplysearch4it.com http://games.simplysearch4it.com http://www.simplysearch4it.com and finally the shopping section at: http://products.simplysearch4it.com Thanks and all comments are welcome. I think the design is much more suited and professional than the old design I use to have.
Your site looks too dark, as would not associate it with games. I think that you could try to change the color scheme. 100% width also doesn’t look good.
Thanks for the comments. So far since I have asked for reviews on many forums I have add about 100 replies and about 5% or less of them have been replies with one or two slight negativity, like I need to change one or two things and the rest has been positive. Before I done the redesign I had about 60% negative and about 40% positive reviews so I guess the site is much better and infact I actually think it is. Anyway, I am quite surprised about you saying that it is to dark for a games site. I games site is best when it is dark, most gaming sites are rather dark it makes the dark characters show out and things. Also, this site is not just about games, it is more of a portal that contains different subjects. These include articles, web directory, online shopping, games, etc. The site was much brighter and ligher previously and I made a decission that it needs to go alot darking and then have the parts where the main information is, make it white so that the information can be seen clearly and also my visitors eyes will go to that section straight away. Also, the width of the site is not 100% it has margins. The sides of the page that are gray are the margins and are not surpose to be apart of the main site. It's like this forum, they have used a light gray, which is really the margins. I have done the same with mine, just my margins are wider than this site's margins. Thanks for the comments. I would like further comments.
Thanks for the comments, keep them coming. I enjoy reading the comments and many of them are very useful to use as feedback.
What do you mean it needs a complete makeover, it already has had one. It is looking much more professional than what it was and I have had about 95% of good comments and only about 5% of negative where they have only been about changing one or two little bits. Yours is probably the worst when you say it needs a complete make over. Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, but a complete makeover is something that I will not be doing as it has already been done and doing it again will actually damage the site. When building a site you can't keep doing complete make overs every other week. This design that I currently have is the best the site has looked and is a design that I like and think is very professional to what it was. Many people like it. 95% of the people like it and 5% are not quite sure or don't like it to much, but with these figures I can say that the design is good enough to keep. No matter what design a site has not 100% of the people around the world will like it, but as longs as you get a much larger majority of people that like it than what you do that don't like it, then you have something good. Thanks again for your comments and keep them coming in. I am sorry that you didn't like it and think it needs a total re-design.