Review Request -pls ignore-

She has: 9 posts

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Excuse me for updating this post after such a long time. I want to remove the URLs for privacy reasons so please do not restore them. Thanks for understanding!

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what is wrong (and what is cool) with my website:

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Thanks for doing some reviews and welcome to TWF Smiling

I personally don't see the point in giving people a choice of colours for the site and in this case they are all too much of that one colour. I think it is much better to have your own colour scheme with a good design.

As for the actual design, I find it a bit boring as there is just so much text and no real design to break it up, plus I get a small horizontal scrollbar at 800*600 in IE6.

I definitely think that you need a much better logo as the one you have has no identity and is just a boring font, which is actually totally overpowered by the banner next to it. Your logo is what brands the site and yours doesn't do this effectively and at present the graphic is jaggedy, not helped by the fact I assume it is transparent to allow for the change of background colour.

Not a bad site but just not really to my liking.
One other point, don't centre paragraphs of text, it makes them harder to read and doesn't look professional.

Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....

They have: 26 posts

Joined: Mar 2003

The left-hand menu area seems fine, although it could be made a bit darker blue to help distinguish it from the content area.

Also the content area is too confusing. I think you should make a main center content area table, then another right hand menu column to help organize the page better.

Mike Caskanette.
LifeLine Aquarium Systems.
http://www.lifelineaquarium.com

Abhishek Reddy's picture

He has: 3,348 posts

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I actually think your colours are fine. Smiling Same with the layout.

All I'd like to see done is adding some finesse to the whole thing. Like creating a unique logo, refining structure and presentation of the text (all the fonts and colour of the text is the same), to highlight important points and better lead the reader's eye.

I think you've got the general idea right. Just needs some refinement. Smiling

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Hey, thanks for reviewing some other sites!

I agree with what has been said so far - you need a better logo first of all, and more finesse to the design. I also think that there is way too much blue here and also way too much text. It's hard to figure out what to focus on. If you look at other sites, you'll see that they often have different background colours for content and sidebar - this helps the user to focus on the content (often on a white background) while allowing the navigation and sidebar elements to recede.

FAQ page - don't underline regular text. It looks like a link.

I like what you've done with the login box at the top - nice way to present other options in one place. Might be a good idea to label the password box somehow.

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Thank you all.

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Difinatley need a better logo.
i preferred the green theme Smiling
Just open your browser and... that's all ! (people will think thats a link)

Get a better counter. it doesnt blend in with the site:)
but all in all nice job, well done
good luck with the site.

Cymru am byth

They have: 117 posts

Joined: Feb 2002

I would reword this... "your site may receive as many as 180 unique hits (unique IP per day) each hour"

Actually, I found your expanation of your program rather confusing in general. Is it just something to pump page views for banner ads or is it supposed to deliver legitimate traffic?

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LOL! I thought that was just me Smiling Most of these get hits quick schemes don't make much sense to me though. They really need to be more clear and as direct as possible when explaining the program to first time visitors.

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"your site may receive as many as 180 unique hits (unique IP per day) each hour for free"

What I wanted to say is that the Unique Hits Network brings unique IPs per day (for example 123.123.123.123 will visit your site only 1 time between 00:00 a.m. - 12.59 p.m. GMT time) to your site.
And your site can receive as many as 180 such visitors each hour => 180 x 24 each day (24 hours).
Other auto-hits sites don't deliver only unique ip (the same ip can be sent to visit your site even 10 times a day).

Speaking of "is it supposed to deliver legitimate traffic":
This site (like all auto-hits sites in fact) is not an advertising site (like banner-exchange site).
I made this site to artificially increase the number of visitors for 2 main reasons:
1. Some free webhosts require a minimum number of visitors per day
2. to "pump page views for banner ads"
(this could be useful if you are in a banner exchange program)

Also if you have some traffic counters on your site you could have your site's rank increased.

And all this could be useful to sites which are new on the web. And after those sites begin to be better known by ppl, they will finaly be removed from the auto-hits network.

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Joined: Jun 2003

I love the use of CSS, and themeing. But I would suggest a new logo, actually one with a crisp black edge around the text so you can make it a transparent GIF and use it on all the themes.

Other that that I like it. Page idea is a bit beaten with large stick, but then again what type of site/idea isnt anymore.

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I actually like the ability to choose other colors like that, I just wish there was a way to have it done 'instantly', lol. I have high speed, and I have to wait a few seconds...not bad.

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