SEScoops — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 04:02:47 +0000

Popups suck but when you make a few hundred dollars a month off them, you learn to look away a bit. I do have a few banner ads, but I believe they're placed very well - not too intrusive and not interrupting content.

The red on gray is a concern of mine and will be tweaked in the future.

Any other thoughts?

WaveyUK — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:21:28 +0000

Hi.
I have to say, I wasn't overkeen on the site.
Firstly, get rid of the pop-ups. They make your site look cheap in my opinion. And somehw they bypassed my IE pop-up blocker (which normally stops nearly every pop-up I encounter!). They detract from what you're trying to promote. As a rule of thumb, if I get a sit which shoves a pop-up as soon as I enter a site, I tend to close it down. Nothing wrong with banner ads, but pop-up's a no-no (do you get the impression I don't like them!!). On the topic of banner ads - you do seem to have quite a few... I am guessing you're after commision paid click-throughs! I have some on my site, but I try to theme them in with the area of the site the user is looking at. For example, in my computer section, there are a few select banners for computer related stores/services. Maybe you might want to consider this?
Next, red text on a grey background. Made it very hard to read on an LCD screen. Not so easy on the eyes.
Other than that, content is good... lots of it.

demonhale — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:54:56 +0000

I like the old one better, maybe merge the header design for both templates...

SEScoops — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 02:15:23 +0000

I came up with this as a starting point:

http://www.sescoops.com/indexnew.shtml

SEScoops — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:46:32 +0000

Thank you all for your comments so far .. My coding is definitely an area that needs an overhaul.

I'm looking to work with a developer to help me get organized and bring some of the ideas I have to life. I want to concentrate on ease of use and content utilization.

Anybody interested?

Busy — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:29:03 +0000

the site is slow to load and very jumpy with big gaps under and around your content.

You need to validate your code (which will improve loading and display) as your code is a real mess.

The red links are a little hard on the eyes and I think you need to introduce another colour for links as the black ones are confusing, some black text are links, others arent

gfawce1 — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:38:48 +0000

Definately a well put together site. Content works well and views well in both firefox and IE. However, there's like a 3 mile margin at the bottom of the page when viewed in firefox and the ads took a while to load.

I agree with the ridding of the popups. They only serve to annoy. A couple of technical faults . . . you're using some very antiquated (and deprecated) tags such as "center". Instead use CSS to center blocks:

or better still add some styles to your external style sheet.

Your page also has no doctype declaration. There's some similar code mistakes in there that could use your attention too.

The rounding off of the header (top right) looks a little unecessary . . . just have keep to a square corner to give the site an altogether more uniform look and you'll have it down!

Good luck!

benf — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 00:16:20 +0000

Nice site, i think you should have an accent colour, something like blue or green or maybe yellow. I would like to see a bit more of an interesting logo. Something catchy. Also maybe the pictures would be better as thumbnails rather than a list of anchor links. Intice the viewer to look at the pictures not search for them.

Good luck.

demonhale — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:52:11 +0000

Hey Its Cool! Anyway Drop the popups... I'll guess the layout is quite appropriate for your niche, the colors and everything are in-synch... Just make it a less "hectic" looking...
Coz when I stay at your site a little longer I want to wrestle people...

phelix — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 15:42:49 +0000

wow.. looks really good. alot of popups though sounded like my popup blocker went off like 4 times. It also has alot of content. I like it.