blackicicle — Thu, 20 May 2004 21:39:19 +0000

Hey luke, here is my review of your site:

1. I like the blue, but by itself it leaves much to be desired. I would keep that blue but add more (maybe a darker blue if your want to keep that theme) colors to add some life to your site.

2. Your fonts are WAY too small, and since the size is forced through CSS (Cannot be resized be changing the browser font settings), it may be extremely hard for those who are impared in this respect.

3. Your text are very light, making me (and I would assume other) squint to see it properly.

4. At the time of writing, some of your images on the right side (Scrolling section) doesn't work, so you might want to check into that. Note: This seems to be intermitent as sometimes it loads fine and somtimes it doesn't.

5. Generally Im not a big fan of scrollers within the webpage, but you somehow seem to pull it off with the shoutbox.

6. You might want to use proper page titles, this may help when being indexed, as of this writing, all your pages says "Simple Shout" as the title.

7. Sililar to the last comment... regardless of the page you're on the browser shows, http://simpleshout.co.uk/ yes it may look clean, but it may hinder your spiderability and it may make it harder for your users to bookmark and for people to link to as they are not presented with the url. Note: This may be due to the fact that you're hosted on a seperate server, but there may be a work around to this if you search in the right place

8. Your page loads very fast which is always a good thing. And the code is clean. You might want to add some title text to the links though.

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mjs416 — Wed, 19 May 2004 16:13:56 +0000

Not a fan of the baby blue background and the pale grey text. I guess that has already been mentioned.

Also, the support link up top was red whereas the other were grey. I havent ever been to your site before so I doubt it was the css.

carmack — Wed, 19 May 2004 14:27:37 +0000

Couldn't agree more. It's like viewing a Web site while sitting in a cloud.

icerider — Tue, 18 May 2004 22:51:38 +0000

Agree with the background, way too pale, font gets a little hard to read.

andy206uk — Tue, 18 May 2004 10:35:19 +0000

Could you perhaps try and make your content a little bit more pale?

Seriously... your content is very pale, anyone without perfect 20-20 vision is going to struggle with reading your pages. Darken the text up a bit and it will help considerably.

Suzanne — Mon, 17 May 2004 17:05:41 +0000

Ah, I wasn't clear, sorry. And I neglected to welcome you! Welcome to TWF!

When you posted here, you agreed to a posting agreement to contribute to this community by reviewing some of the other sites up for critique. Your input as a user into the design, code, content, navigation, et cetera is invaluable, and is requested before you receive your own critique.

Please help the others here. Usually the more helpful you are, the more help you get. This goes for critiques as well.

lukedyson — Mon, 17 May 2004 16:04:31 +0000

Suzanne wrote: Please would you comment for others first?

Simple Shout offers free remotely hosted shoutboxes with in depth control panels for customisation and control with features such as Flood Protection. It provides a shoutbox with unlimited shouts.

I have set up an in depth admin panel, forum, referral program and an ad-free program

Suzanne — Sun, 16 May 2004 20:38:43 +0000

Please would you comment for others first?