BillBSET — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:22:42 +0000

oh, you mean that it widens out to fill the screen on some pages.
My plan is to provide additional content to screens that are set wider.

It is finally Spring in Summer Town and it will mostly have to
wait until fall.

I am in search of a "Graphic Artist" as i make "square corners".

Thanks!!

Bill

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Swefx — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:00:56 +0000

It's quite nice. I think it would be better if the alignment was all central.

BillBSET — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:23:55 +0000

I really thank you for your input.
My Dream of a Graphic Artist is just that.
Being an engineer and programmer
I make Square Corners..
I am fortunate that it does make money.
Nothing like the site you mentioned. but,
If you went to any of the tracking tools, another, i wrote you
will notice a very step climb in traffic ...
This year is quite a bit better than last.
It is a fairly small area that if you count all of every one
in the swath i encompass would not be 100,000 local people.
And it is for Summer in Summer Town,,,, 6 months a year Lake Fun.

Did you notice the Search Engine, i wrote it and it does a lot.
I am implementing one on a clients large market site.
this version is totally dynamic the next in the project it is just a dictionary to
static pages ... at this point it is not done but it does make money
and more than last year.

The rotating content in the middle of the home page
has a full posting tool, that i wrote, with order, info icon & smiles.

Quite a few of the YaBB tools i wrote ..
I got a real late start on the internet and have just about caught up.

oh, and Too Tough Trivia just went OnLine with the first beta.
It is in upgrade to the internet.

I will be addressing your comments and at least my home page will
be going through a few updates real soon.

Thanks again

Bill

jesse1 — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:37:21 +0000

not sure I really like the maroon background. maybe you could make it lighter?

Also, you need to put some more cell spacing to move the text away from the border of your boxes.

I have to say I am impressed with the amount of content you have and I think a local portal site like you have can be very profitable (I've read about a guy who makes hundreds of thousands per year with a small portal site)

However, your design is very amateur looking. Most portal sites are...so I think with a little work, you will stand out and look good and if you get a lot of visitors with the way it is now, you may have a profitable site soon.

BillBSET — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:35:56 +0000

Grand Lake Links has evolved quite a lot ...

wrote a search engine for the local market..
wrote lots of tools..

Comments Please.

Thanks!

Bill

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BillBSET — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 21:21:21 +0000

Hi TotalNewbie.. ..

Thank you for your comments.. as I have always said.. "I can make square corners"...
I am going to re-work the layout this winter..

Thanks for your thoughts...

totalnewbie — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:07:40 +0000

Hi there, I am quite new to this as well, but I would have to say that it's a bit boxy and flat, and I am not too keen on the colors, but I think if you added some rounded corners, and spruced up the background a bit it would help a lot. Also the links at the top of the page are quite small and squishy, and some of the icons seem to use a different font.

On a positive note, I think it's amazing that you have all that information together on one site. It seems like anything that anyone wants to know, can be found on this one site, which I think will definately make people return to it.

BillBSET — Thu, 05 May 2005 03:15:42 +0000

Thanks,

After reading all your thoughts,
I have decided to take into account all of your input and
totally re-designed the Homepage layout..

now, it is like the rest of the site..
It has a few details that I will work on this weekend..

Thanks and feel free to log in as
Username: BoardMod
Password: tester
(these are case sensitive)

and try out some of the member tools..
I just finished writing the blogs and it is pretty cool..
I may add a reply or comment link(s) or something..
try it out.. .

Thanks

Bill

emoholic — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:20:23 +0000

I really dont like all of the drop shadows. also the fonts are a bit small if you are running a resolution above 800 x 600

Assassin — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:35:29 +0000

I don't have a problem with having mouse over's on your links. I think it's actually a very good idea. But the industry standard is to either underline or "ununderline" the link with the mouse-over effect. It just looks gimmicky to me. I suggest keeping a mouse-over effect, but ditching the "line-over." Of course this is just personal taste. Other people might think it's a stroke of genius to have the line-over.