Webmasters Resources - Comments Appreciated

Hey

Great load time! Loaded in like less than a second. You got your self a great domain.

I like it but it looks kind of plain. Maybe add more color somehow. Make a background color.

I like the 10 most recent additions thing. Except I would swap it and put that on the left and make the navigation type thing to the right.

Make your self a better logo. Make a picture type thing. Just the text isn't enough.

Overall it looks a little strange to me. I don't know what it is. It just looks strange. Maybe try different navigation. That one is used by to many sites. (Yahoo!, Altavista, etc.)

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~Parker Trasborg~
Formerly- ParkerT and sixflags111

Hey guys,

Load time is definitely fast. This may sound weird, but that isn't always the best solution. Try adding some graphics pointing hot spots on your site and to help show a little life.

Also, maybe put up a banner rotation or something at the top. You may not be interested in the revenue from it or the knock in load time, but most people are used to seeing them and if it isn't there everything looks, well...blah.

Maybe add a color to some of the cells, maybe a light blue. It might add a little life.

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Ryan Kuhle - Freebie Network
http://www.freebienetwork.com

I think it looks really good. I think the logo looks fine to. I dont think it is meant to look flashy so i think it looks good. I dont have to many comments about it or suggestions. Maybe some rollovers on the links but overall the navigation is nicely laid out. Good job

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Adam
[email protected]

Hey I liked this site quite a lot! Fast, User Friendly and has loads of resources that even caught my eye! Don't mean to change the subject here but that advert you had on everyone.com caught my eye! Are they any good? Is it really safe allowing other people to use your domain name on free mail? Does your isp approve of this?

Thanks Good Site!

~vy~

It's not too bad, really. The navigation area should be separated a little better from the "top 10 new" part - maybe if that stuff on the side was in a box of some sort. Not using the pale yellow you have for that on some pages (that colour blends into the background too much. Something that contrasts more)

You also need to space out your content a little. More space between listings and the headings should be a little bolder (especially on the software pages, where "Cost" and "Platform" are bigger and bolder than anything else.)

A couple of things to add:

Under Software-HTML Editors you definitely have to have 1st Page 2000 (http://www.evrsoft.com/). Under References: Javascript you must have Netscape's Javascript reference at http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/js/client/jsref/index.htm. I'm sure there are more that should be there but I don't really have the time to look through all that thoroughly yet.

Why do you have a special category for CGI Scripts and no special place for other types of scripts like Java, Javascript, dHTML etc? It's weird, because I reveiwed another site like this recently and that one totally left out JavaScript. For a site like this to succeed, you really need to be thorough with your content - cover everything to some extent. I think that good script links are much more useful than graphics links (who actually uses all those backgrounds and icons anymore? Nobody who's serious about this.)

Thanks for everyone who has replied so far. The feedback is great!

I do have a few questions/comments.

Parker,

Why would you swap the categories and the 10 latest links? My original thought was to keep the most important stuff on the left so if something had to scroll it was not the main content.

I'm working on a better logo

The navigation may be simple and boring, but everyone understands it. My guess is that I'll get a 80/20 split of visitions. 80% will be people setting up personal webpages and only 20% will be professional webmasters.

VY,

There are two ways you can setup your e-mail with everyone.net. The first way would end up with an e-mail address like [email protected]. The second would be name@yourcompany.??? The service allows you to "reserve" names so no one can signup for webmaster, sales, privacy etc.

As far as being "dangerous" that's up to you. You can customize the everyone.net web pages and even show your banners, so you can generate revenue. OTOH, they will look like they are part of your company. You also have to have whoevery is doing your name servers setup the appropriate records (everyone.net shows you what you need). Sime sites won't do that or they will charge you monthly.

I really depends on what type of traffic you are trying to get.

Megan,

Yes, I agree that the categories and top 10 need more space between them. I'm working on the layout of the content pages right now. The cost, language etc. are way too big right now.

I devinately agree on 1st page 2000. I really like that program. I've sent them several e-mails asking them to add a link. I can do it myself (and I will shortly) but if they do it, they control the content.

I'm working on Java, JavaScript etc. categories. They are all important, but CGI's and JS seem to be the top two.

Thanks again for all your comments.

Frank

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Webmasters Resources
www.webmasters-resources.com

I think the site is pretty boring...

1) Most webmaster type sites have some type of logo or than text, or at least fancy type text. I would give it more spice.

2) I think the layout is pretty good. Nice and clean.

3) You need to add more content. More than just a directory of links. Look around at other webmaster related sites and you'll see what I mean.

Needs more pizzaz!

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