rtroxel — Sun, 04 May 2003 04:44:20 +0000

Hi, everybody!

Many thanks for all your suggestions. I'm going on vacation this week, but when I return, I'll definitely be getting down to work on the site.

The Webmistress — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:38:50 +0000

I totally agree with Megan. Your page just looks like a sign up for a newsletter, especially at 800*600 as you can't see the links and with no navigation that makes it worse.

Megan — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:31:20 +0000

I think that you should redesign your home page to place a greater emphasis on content. First of all, put ina navbar somewhere. Not having one makes it look like there aren't a lot of places to go.

Also get rid of the introductory text (it's redundant in this case) and replace it with new articles and lead-in text (like many other web dev. sites do - see Sitepoint, Webmonkey etc.) Having a bit of a teaser on the front page will entice people to dive in further and read on. Same goes for the other pages - the lead in text is usually redunant. Nobody is going to read that. Get right to the meat.

You can look at your site logs to find out where people are coming from - some could be coming from forums and other places you've left your mark.

andy206uk — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:28:04 +0000

i dont think its obvious that the links to articles are actually on your site and not just links to another site... put them in a box with a bold header saying something like "Web Server Times Articles" or something similar.

Try splitting your articles into broader categories... ie:

web design
programing
server management

with descriptions of what people can expect to find in that category.

Maybe a featured article with a description and a few graphics might help as well. Check out sitepoint.com and see how they do it... it might help you out.