proc113 — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:05:22 +0000

Many of my first impressions have already been noted in the forum, but I would like to reiterate the importance of the content of the page. Changing the listing of keywords at the top of the page to a paragraph or two of introduction text or information would prove invaluable, gaining you much more credibility. Right now, my first impression is that this is just a page set up by spammers in order to collect click-throughs. You don't actually give me any reason to click on any, except that they all have to do with Bangkok.

That said, I do enjoy your straight-forward, clear-cut page design. It is very simple and very clear with strong section headings and divisions.

I think you are on your way. Watching you make the changes to your site in response to the good advice you have received is promising. Good luck!

Megan — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:26:25 +0000

Much better. One litle thing - it would look better if you matched the yellow of the logo to the yellow of the navbar area. What would be neat is if you added sort of a picture rotation script to the front page, so you could show a different one each time the page loads, or set a timer so that a new picture loads every minute or so.

P.S. You could always use a browser that conveniently doesn't support Geocities' annoying banner thing

The Webmistress — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:50:40 +0000

Better, but I would have the chunk of text from the top and put it under the navigation and above 'Bars'. I would also get it off geocities as their banner thing on the right hand side is just sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo annoying!

big bangkok — Thu, 10 Oct 2002 09:39:01 +0000

ok,

i have re-done everything based on the recommendations. check out:

http://www.geocities.com/bangkok_internet_guide/

disaster-master — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 10:21:04 +0000

Your English is fine. Webmistress is just teasing you.

Here is an explaination of what ALL CAPITALS means on the internet.
http://www.onlinenetiquette.com/courtesy1.html (look at #1)

Sonia

The Webmistress — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 09:12:50 +0000

No I meant don't shout by typing everything in CAPITALS

big bangkok — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 08:38:16 +0000

sorry Webmistress

excuse me for my english. when you mentioned 'dont shout' do you mean i am complaining ? i didn't. i mean a lot of good thai restaurants have their website only in thai language so people like yourself wouldn't understand it anyway and that's why i couldn't list them.

sure.....i'll post when i'll re-do some scripts.

The Webmistress — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 08:21:52 +0000

PLEASE DON'T SHOUT!

Look forward to seeing the amendments, don't forget to post here in this thread once you want us to have another look at it.

big bangkok — Wed, 09 Oct 2002 08:07:35 +0000

very interesting.

i learned that:

1. replacing the keywords at the word to rather sentences and proper description

2. few designs re-do

WILL DO THEM TONIGHT.

PLEASE NOTE: THOUGH BANGKOK IS A BIG AND EMERGING CITY IN TERMS OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS, 60-80% OF MULTINATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS STILL HAVE THEIR WEBSITES IN THAI LANGUAGE FOR SOME PARTICULAR REASONS THIS FORCES ME TO 'LEAVE OUT' SOME OF THE 'TOP' COMPANIES IN EACH CATEGORY :eek:

disaster-master — Tue, 08 Oct 2002 16:39:04 +0000

I think you should totally get rid of all of those words at the top
(bangkok guide bars restaurants clubs hotels tours media list geocities...........etc.) and replace them with a nice introduction to what your site is about, what people can find there and how they will benefit from staying and looking around at your site. That would be much more interesting and helpful to your visitors IMO. And maybe put an image there like the others were saying.

As for colors, the black lines that are separating each section of links is to dark for the rest of the site and doesn't compliment the other colors. I think a lighter color that would accent your other colors would be good. Something bright and cheerful...but not too bright.

You might also consider moving your title graphic at the top, "Bangkok Internet Guide", over to the left so that it isn't hidden by the Geocities pop up. Just an idea.

One other thing that I am not particularly fond of it the script that takes over your status bar I would much rather be able to look and see the url of where I am going than see "The First and Best Bangkok Internet Guide."