xavierj — Tue, 14 Sep 2004 03:21:44 +0000

That home page looks gooooooooood.. One thing tho.

In the area with the text boxes, radio buttons and so forth I'd change them to have the darker grey fill the background instead of having the lighter/darker combo. It's really busy on the eyes. The black buttons are fine, however.

You could move the logo (building, etc) to above the form area to make it more prominent.

Other than that it's great.

Dirty_Dawg — Sat, 11 Sep 2004 16:48:04 +0000

Once again I want to say I do appreciate the input that I have received from those kind enough to take their time to respond.

The partner page above is a good example. The page is to present a new idea of Networking “Special Merchant Offers”, and making content of Yellow Pages/ White Pages available to other sites. This helps Maximize the revenue from the traffic while adding value added content.. Plus operating as a Network increases the neogating strength to the benefit of the websites.

The page has been sent to a professional writer to make changes without infringing on copywrite material. His firm is familiar with copywrite, and has he mentioned everyone like to express themselves anyway.. it is like an Art form, and a challenge.. I do respect copywrite material.

I hope to have this page live within a week and once again thanks.. I hope to return the favor.

A good forum, like this one, can offer a valuable service.

openmind — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:22:50 +0000

I think you want to be extremly careful as there is quite a close resemblance to the Google sign up page...

GlideNet — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:32:30 +0000

It looks good, however I wouldnt go apply at google adsense. They might not like it much lol!

Need some opinions

Dirty_Dawg — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:21:16 +0000

I am adding a new page to invite Network Partners. The page offers content of Yellowpages, White Pages, Search the WEB, and "Special Offers" to those that would like the content on their site...

http://www.city-yellowpages.com/partner.htm

This page is not optimized it is still in developement.

Thanks for your input in advance.

rtroxel — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:14:34 +0000

Hey, Dawg:

I really like your site. It's better than Yahoo's. I like the idea of being able to find people and businesses, witout going through a lot of ads and pop-ups.

I'm a big fan of clean, fast-downloading sites.

Also, thanks for the suggestions you've made about my sites.

Dirty_Dawg — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:32:54 +0000

I am here to help, and in turn I appreciate the input I recieve in turn. If I can be of additional assistance let me know.

A great site I hope more find their way here..

Regards

Dragon of Ice — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:51:42 +0000

Ok. So I was pretty much right. Thanks for the info. I may be launching a classifieds site for my local area, and this could be something I use for advertisers, if you don't mind.

Dirty_Dawg — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:05:06 +0000

sbmontana,

Thank you for bookmarking our site, and your comments.

Dynamic Rich Media (DRM) response to sbmontana

Dirty_Dawg — Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:02:53 +0000

Dragon of Ice wrote: This DRM you speak of. I imagine you do a php (or asp) include pointing to their server? The concept intrigues me, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

The best I can do is offering my "guess" because I am not technical savvy. My work is more in marketing and networking.

DRM appears to be a simple script that calls the information (file) from the "Merchant's" server, much like pulling an image. This works well because the file can be update by the Merchant and does not require additional effort on the part of the Web-publisher.

The old method of just placing links or banners on a site offers poor conversions, and outdated material. Using the old methods the website then becomes a source of sending traffic to the homepage of the Merchant. Most Merchants homepages offers information about store locations, customer service/ direct ordering numbers, and cookies (tracking code imbedded) with a short life.. All benefits the affiliate network and merchant, but clearly puts the Web-publisher on the short end of the stick as far as monatizing traffic.

My effort with the Merchants is to encourage them to use DRM, and the landing page of the link to go to an "order page" of the special offer (not the homepage).. also that the offers, and promotions be of a special mature.

I find it slow going, but it is catching on.. I am testing it on my some of my pages by putting the Merchants in a category listing and calling it “Hot Offers” I may change the title to Hot Deals, Promotions.. in other words I am going through some testing.

Once I find the right combination I will expand it though the other pages.

I am glad I was introduced to this forum because it is a great source for feedback from others involved in the Web business.

Regards