Have a look (money from nothing)
Please have a look at my site, its about money.
I thought it was quite an original idea but theres actually quite a lot of competition.
I know the design is not great but your views on the content interest me the most.
I'd like to offer adsense revenue sharing in the forum but don't know how i'd go about it can anyone help please?
MarcMiller posted this at 22:18 — 17th January 2007.
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Your e-book page did not make sense to me. There was a link on this page which read "Please email me for the password and I'll send it straight back for you" the way my computer is set up at the moment did not yield contact information when I clicked on this link. I have recently changed e-mail providers and I do not know if my computer is set up with a default e-mail program. I access e-mail by going to a MSN.com homepage. So I am no longer using Outlook express. I am not sure how you set up this link but it would be nice if even when a user does not have a default e-mail program set up you linked to a contact you page to send you an e-mail. Your link invited me to sign up for Google Mail and I am perfectly happy with MSN e-mail. So I'm not sure if this is just a fault with the interaction of my computer and your site or this happens for all users, but in my case you should make it much easier for me to ask for a password by sending you an e-mail easily by clicking that link.
Incidentally my e-mail is "[email protected]" please send me a password.
Sincerely
Marc
skint posted this at 15:13 — 18th January 2007.
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I'll PM you the password, its a bit bare at the moment but more ebooks will be uploaded soon.
I am thinking about making access to the ebooks available once you place one post on the forum.
Would this work better?
MarcMiller posted this at 03:02 — 19th January 2007.
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skint- let me give you what is very much my very layman's opinion. I know forum sites which has very many members. One fine arts forum I know about claimed over 250,000 members when I last went to it and also claimed to be growing exponentially. This site off it plenty of free material with no strings like posting first. Still other forums such as one web design forum I keep going back to hits you with an offer of a free chapter of an e-book which is so good you'll wanna buy the rest of it. This forum is a ready very big that does this free chapter thing. In my opinion your forum is too small to be offering content with any strings attached at this point.
I also know of web design forum sites which have free and pay sections. One side I know off his free Web page critiques and also paid web site analysis critiques. The web site analysis critiques are supposed to be more in depth and professionally done. I do not think your forum site is at this time large enough to attract business analysis professionals as your employees. But if you can grow your forum site with a lot of good free content who knows.
Just my opinion
Marc
HQHost.net posted this at 10:44 — 19th January 2007.
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Hello
It is realy difficult to say what do i think about your website. I have looked through your website and to be honest i don't like it. It looks very wide to me and bulky. I think that you should redesign your main page and your header. I don't like your menu design. I think it is influence on your website usability. But I have to say that I like your idea.
skint posted this at 11:47 — 19th January 2007.
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Thanks, I know the design does need some work but I think the idea does have potential.
I am sure people would'nt mind posting on the forum to get access to free ebooks, I think its a good way to build up the content.
I might try it.
skint posted this at 21:25 — 20th January 2007.
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I have redone the home page http://financial-independence.net should I carry on do the rest of the site like this? go back to how it was or give up?
:confused:
MC Alister posted this at 22:08 — 25th January 2007.
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I think, the way your design looks at the monemt it's just distracing people so:
Use Css and remove the color of the scrollbar. Also use some more fancy and clean design...
Use Photoshop and Flash to improve the design.
There are many free web designs out there wich look a lot more better than yours!
But keep up trying and learn by your mistakes. Look at other websites, but don't copy them
But the easy way would be to buy a webdesign
Free tutorials: http://directory.mcalister.ch
skint posted this at 18:54 — 29th January 2007.
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I have just redesigned it again please let me know what you think now.
http://financial-independence.net
I like but would really appreciate your opinions
gleamservices posted this at 16:06 — 5th February 2007.
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Hi I like your idea, now for the critics......
I think you need to make your home page narrower to make it fit on the screen (did you design it on a widescreen tv)
I don`t like the blue and brown colour scheme but thats just personnal taste
I think your should put another set of nav links along the bottom of the page
otherwise you read it then you have to scroll up again to goto a new page
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skint posted this at 18:59 — 5th February 2007.
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Cheers No I did'nt design it on a wide screen TV, I have looked at it on 4 different computers with firefox and IE, lots of different browser setting and I can't see what you mean.
Does any one else have this problem, how can I fix it?
Good point about the links I'll look at them
thrawn posted this at 20:38 — 5th February 2007.
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One comment I'd like to make, I think that keeping the design consitent would help alot, rather than changing the background colour. Also, I don't like trying to read black text on a dark background.
Also, a small point, but the white Google ads look out of place on the brown.
Jake
skint posted this at 09:04 — 6th February 2007.
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Cheers Jake your right, I am in the process of chaninging all the backgrounds.
Kevin_DD posted this at 19:06 — 12th February 2007.
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No offense, but here is my review:
It looks like it was made in 1995. There is no CSS other than font declaration which has no relevance since you use tables and did not make a td declaration for the fonts.
Even the tables being used have no cellpadding, cellspacing, etc. declarations.
Your site seems to use browser defaults for font, link, and background colors. The animated .gif at the top of the page leaves little to the imagination and is not catchy or eye-pleasing. There seems to be no color scheme for the site, everything is just thrown together randomly.
Basically you should just pay some money and get the entire site re-designed, or do a little bit of source reading on other sites in order to better yourself. As well, you should check out some tutorials on how to set color declarations in CSS, including table data declarations. Also, if you want to keep the tables then I suggest reading up on what kind of declarations you can make for tables as well in the HTML of them.
Dion Design - Professional Web Development
Gozee posted this at 05:03 — 13th February 2007.
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If you really want to give some sincere advice and establish a professional web presence, I think you should really focus on correcting the grammatical errors in your website. Here is a para from your home page:
"If you keep following all the get rich quick schemes your probable not going to achieve financial independence, your just going to keep giving your money to the scammers and you'll probably get deeper in debt. "
skint posted this at 16:42 — 15th February 2007.
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Cheers,
I am still learning the banner will be replaced soon, I'll probably use nuclues or wordpress for better interactivity so theres not much point in rewriting the rest of it at the moment.
wcys posted this at 00:35 — 21st February 2007.
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hey i decided to make you a free design here it is:
http://www.wellcanyousing.com/library/fi.html
if you want to make your site like this, just upload the attatched file to your site in your main directory and then put this at the top of your page:
<!-- INSERT THIS TO TOP OF YOUR PAGE --!><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td colspan="8"><img src="fi_header.PNG"></td>
</tr>
<tr style="font-family: arial; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold;" bgcolor="#993943" align="center">
<td><a href="http://www.financial-independence.net/index.html" class="menulinks">Home</a></td><td><a href="http://www.financial-independence.net/forum/" class="menulinks">Forum</a></td><td><a href="http://www.financial-independence.net/free%20ebooks.html" class="menulinks">Free E-Books</a></td><td><a href="http://www.financial-independence.net/debt.html" class="menulinks">Money Issues</a></td><td><a href="http://www.financial-independence.net/Cash.html" class="menulinks">Quick Cash</a></td><td><a href="http://www.financial-independence.net/trading.html" class="menulinks">Trading/Forex</a></td><td><a href="http://www.financial-independence.net/link.html" class="menulinks">Resources/Links</a></td><td><a href="http://www.financial-independence.net/sitemap.html" class="menulinks">Sitemap</a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="8">
<!-- END TOP OF PAGE --!>
and this to the bottom of your page:
<!-- INSERT THE FOLLOWING TO THE BOTTOM OF YOUR PAGE --!>
</td></tr>
<tr style="font-family: arial; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold; color: #ffffff;" bgcolor="#993943" align="center">
<td colspan="8">Design by Ajp Designs</td>
</tr>
</table>
<style type="text/css">
a.menulinks:link {color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;}
a.menulinks:visited {color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;}
a.menulinks:hover {color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: bold;}
a.menulinks:active {color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;}
.green {background: #60886F; color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;}
.red {background: #A13F4A; color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;}
.content {background: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;}
</style>
<!-- END BOTTOM OF PAGE --!>
and here are boxes you can use in the middle:
green box:
<!-- GREEN BOX CAN GO HERE --!><table class="0" width="100%"><tr><td class="green">Title: This is a green box</td></tr>
<tr><td class="content">Content</td></tr>
</table>
<!-- END GREEN BOX --!>
red box
<!-- RED BOX CAN GO HERE --!><table class="0" width="100%"><tr><td class="red">Title: This is a red box</td></tr>
<tr><td class="content">Content</td></tr>
</table>
<!-- END RED BOX --!>
so there you go and your welcome
and i hope you dont mind if i just add your site to my website design portfolio?
-wcys
skint posted this at 16:07 — 21st February 2007.
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Thank you very much, I'm liking it please feel free to add it to your protfolio. I will link back to your site aswell
Could you please change the logo as financial is spelt wrong.
Cheers
wcys posted this at 16:56 — 21st February 2007.
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i knew it was spelt wrong
heres the new image:
-wcys
skint posted this at 17:15 — 21st February 2007.
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Cheers
Feeling like a pain as your giving me such a nice design for free but independence is spelt wrong.
If you could please edit it for me I'll upload it tonight.
Can you give me a price for changing the look of the forum aswell.
wcys posted this at 17:32 — 21st February 2007.
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ok look up its done
i'm really not good with forums...
skint posted this at 18:19 — 21st February 2007.
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Cheers
etuk0002 posted this at 19:39 — 16th March 2007.
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Hi,
Based on my E-Commerce knowledge and as an Internet Application Programmer, i'd love to say that:
1. You're website is too plain.
2. Most of the subheadings and headings with content beneath them could work as links to web pages where you would have the content there as well as their related links.This will greatly decongest your index page, and make your site look more professional.
3. Then you could bring in the green color scheme you have going in the header to the body and give the page some sort of focus and continuity.The way it is right now, it has some kind of disjointed appearance; more like the person that did the header went on break and his intern did the rest.It doesn't feel like one page.
I think you'll really need to work on this one.
skint posted this at 21:05 — 16th March 2007.
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Thanks, I will work on it
kirpal_06391 posted this at 06:37 — 11th May 2007.
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Your Site isn't too atractive. I mean contents don't have any problem and idea is also good but layout and colouring isn't good:(
You should use some good colouring scheme and align ads in more fashionable way. You ses site needs to be attractive too to attract users.
wcys posted this at 17:57 — 20th February 2007.
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ohh.. ok well i have some fixes for you
insert this into the start of your table:
<table style="border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0 auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="yourwidth" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bordercolor="#000000" border="1">this makes the table have a clean 1px border. all you need to insert is the style tage and bordercolor
it is also good to have everything in one table...
-ajp
skint posted this at 20:25 — 20th February 2007.
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Cheers I'll try that
ravenclaw22 posted this at 19:54 — 21st February 2007.
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looks good. And better improve your site's content as well.
Cheers
skint posted this at 23:17 — 21st February 2007.
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I'll be using your design in full on most of my pages.
I'll be using the banner on all pages and mention you on all pages.
I've decided to install siteframe a community portal thingy on the homepage so people can write their own articles and comment like a blog.
I am hoping this will make the site more popular.
financial independence
I am hoping it will ravenclaw22
wcys posted this at 16:47 — 22nd February 2007.
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well, i'm not at ajpdesign.com thats someone else
but you dount need to link back to me, it was no problem
skint posted this at 16:52 — 22nd February 2007.
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Thanks, the site say ajp design on the footer.
What name should I put there?
wcys posted this at 17:23 — 22nd February 2007.
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just use that for contact links and copyright and stuff
-ajp
lordbiron posted this at 17:54 — 22nd February 2007.
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looks good so far man
123debtsolution posted this at 11:03 — 9th May 2007.
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Hi Skint
Have you considered generating any revenue through any affiliate programs? A site like yours could bring considerable return. If you have any questions or need any help creating the forms e.t.c. then we are always happy to help.
Thanks
Lee
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