New Design : TILA.Com

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Hey everybody, could you tell me if my site's new design sucks or not ?

it's - http://www.tila.com

Anyway, if it sucks, could you tell me the part where it sucks ?

Thanks
Kris

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NICE!!!! Nice colors, good mouseover color change on links. This is one of the best sites I have ever seen. The only thing I would say is that the logo looks like I can click on it and bring how many categories you have further up. Other than that I think your site is perfect.

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First, I think it's pretty good.

1) Take out the "click here to bookmark this site." It moves the actualy site too far down.

2) You don't need to have the body properties as follows:

quote:marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"

It makes it look dumb.

3) Under the logo there is a blank white bar. I would fill this bar with a short one line description of what the intent of your site is.

4) I don't like the blue mouse-over color, but that's just me. Maybe a gray would look good?!?

Man, you have way too much time to look for webmasters resources

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    Hmm.. doesn't really thrill me.

    The "click here to make us your default homepage" is a really bad idea IMO. Just because you can doesn't mean you should (that's my motto). With your content, you're dealing with people who know the internet. I'm sure we all have good reasons for choosing the default homepages that we have. And we do know how to change it.

    A more exciting colour scheme would be nice I think. This is kind of blah to me. Maybe if you introduced another colour like red or blue. A better logo would be nice too - just choose a more unique font for tila.com. It would also be nice to know what TILA stands for.

    I really like how you've divided your content into just the right number distinct categories. This will make it easy for people to find what they want. Speaking of content, I don't see any mention of Javascript on here - you should definitely have a category for that. dHTML too maybe Oooh - I also like how you have added some more information after your links - that's very helpful. It would be nice if you could ad a little more info - like is this service good, does it work, if it's free what's the catch - kind of like thefreesite.com. It would be really cool if you could allow people to add their comments about a link.

    God I hate those banner ads that look like forms or windows alerts but are just images!! Stupid idea! This is not your problem of course.

    Hey - in your webmaster clubs area I don't see a link to TWF!!!!

    I am definitely going to bookmark this site though - info will be very helpful!

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    I have a question that may sound dumb to some. I live in Atlanta, GA and all of the banner ads were for Athens, GA. Are other people that look at your site getting "targeted" ads or is it just a coincidence that these banner ads were relavent to me?

    John

    interwovendesign.com
    Quality web site design without the monthly maintenance fees!

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    I don't have time to surf the whole site but I went to your graphics section and noticed that all the links open in your frame and in a new window. WHY? First of all if you are going to open the link in a new window fine but I am sure some of the sites you are linking to wouldn't appreciate being caught in your frames.

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    Rayna
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    Agree, if you don't want your page to get framed by somebody's FRAMES page, use this script in your page, it should be able to clear the FRAMES page .

    You sometimes don't know who might be linking to your site if yours is a popular one.

    <BODY>
    <SCRIPT Language="JavaScript">
    <!-- hide script from non compliant broswers
    if (top.frames.length!=0)
    top.location=self.document.location;
    // unhide -->
    </SCRIPT>
    </BODY>

    I use this code in all my pages.

    NSS http://www.unitronics.com

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    Brian Farkas's picture

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    You could also use this one.

    code:

    <script language="JavaScript">
    <!--
    if (window != window.top)
      top.location.href = location.href;
    // -->
    </script>
    [/code]
    
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    soundtank's picture

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    well, thank you.

    as for the frames, that's the only exchange I get after I list someone's web site. I don't ask anything, just that/

    and I also get extra traffic with it

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