Hi there! I am new to the website business and started my first site in November 2009. www.kidzcoolzone.com The site is designed as a place for kids to want to go and have fun but to have a fun/learning element in it. It is aimed at the 9 to 14'ish age group! I have 2 children of that age and I believe it is the kind of site children will want to go to and their parents be happy about, rather than the kind of site that parents want their children to go to but the kids find boring! I know it has a lot of work to be done to it yet and I have tried to monetize it but so far with limited success - any ideas? Currently using NeverBlue, Adsense, Amazon and Affiliate links. Your views would be greatly appreciated, but please do remember that I am new to this. Thanking you in advance.
Nice and lively theme for children, good games. I think twitter box is not really necessary as when I checked it there was a post about "domains" which is not really a topic about children And twitter, social bookmarking buttons aren't really necessary, I don't think children are really into these social bookmarking and networking stuff or current generation may be following the trends better than me Good luck.
Nice website, its easy to navigate, a little slow to load for me... I dont think pink and purple color is the best choice for the 9-14s yo children but why not... Good luck to you!
really lovely website.. i dont beleive it that this is ur first website, because its a real fantastic website.. i really loved ur site..
Many thanks for all your comments. It genuinely is my first website. I am an ex-teacher and have a special interest in children, and feel that learning and fun should be one of the same. My partner has given me loads of technical advice and my children advise me on whats cool and whats not. If anyone has any ideas though on how to monetize this site succesfully I would really appreciate it! I thought that Never Blue would work but not a thing. I also try to be very careful as to what advertising is on the site as it is a kids website. Thanks again and please keep the comments coming.
Except logo everything looks fine to me but it was bit slow in loading the page complete.Check it out.
Wow wow !! your site is not appropriate for the category of children's viewing. Monotone colors used, the logo is more appropriate for the category of technology sites. My suggestion to use a combination of different colors like red green yellow and blue to make it more interesting
A bit slow at loading... Running a scan on your site: Whatever 'rotator.nbjmp.com/optimizer/' cookie is being blocked repeatly? Not a major for most other people though. There's a syntax error I noticed in your html located line 60-61: onFocus="this.value="test" - won't work with the quotes like that and it's affecting the next line. The 'feeds2.feedburner.com/~fc/KidzCoolZone?bg=FD6D00&fg=202931&anim=1' also has a broken image. Apart from those, the site looks awesome! I love the layout, colours and design and the animation in the middle. Very attractive. I'm 15, male, and even though it looks a bit more focused on gals, i really enjoy your site.
Very nice. Fix the way your load time flushes out one thing at a time or just decrease the overall page size in kilobytes.' And the left and right column kind of take away from your banners... They need some sort of border or to be more organized. Jeremy
here are the points i would like to point out, 1. The welcome banner below the slider is actually distracting , remove the banner and instead, you can flash ur header logo. that will be awesome 2. the ads in the left sidebar are not well placed, try to change the alignment, reduce the left sidebar width and increase the post width, 3. the thumbnail looks good for each post, but there is not of white space left after each thumbnail so instead of one thumbnail try to have 3 thumbnails , that will look catchy and finally congrats on making a good site, needs just some minor changes as pointed above, Cheers. Good luck
Nice and attractive website. Maybe a little more brighter color could add to its appeal. Not sure how many boys like purple??
First I want to say thank you for taking your time to do something for kids A+++ I added a banner on top of my forum under the Website Review section ( I could not find a kid category to put it on, so I put it there. for 1 year. ) "Kids are the future" keep the good work ~Mike
I think it's a bit cluttered for a kid's site. It probably should have a simpler layout. Good site in general though, Kids will appreciate it.