pisstaker — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:46:41 +0000

Wow;213879 wrote: I like the layout, seeing as it's simple but neat. I enjoyed the cartoon section, that is really funny, but some of the other sections like the video aren't as funny.

1 out of 6 isn't bad!!! Interestingly, I do absolutely nothing to the cartoon section, it is all updated automatically by Revver. The rest of the blogs I do the donkey work. Maybe I should leave the funny stuff to others?

Wow — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:53:10 +0000

I like the layout, seeing as it's simple but neat. I enjoyed the cartoon section, that is really funny, but some of the other sections like the video aren't as funny.

STwebmaster — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:57:35 +0000

I didn't see it before you included excerpts, but it looks great to me now. Very "web2.0" design wise.

Nice

skint — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:41:10 +0000

I like it, it looks good. Quite an original idea I think

Revised the site.

pisstaker — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 02:35:06 +0000

I have been revamping the site applying a few of the comments and observations from here and elsewhere to make a better site. What do you think? Is it a step forward, or are there still issues to address. Thanks

Pisstakers respond to a couple of criticisms

pisstaker — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:40:29 +0000

benf;208393 wrote: I like the idea, and it looks good but stop having your pages so you have to scroll really far down. I find it annoying!

Sorry to have been a piss-offer rather than the pisstaker!

We have been thinking about the usability criticisms that people here have kindly pointed out. The length of the homepage content has been an issue, and stands to get worse because not only are we intending to post more stories of our own on a daily basis, but we are actively seeking submissions from others too. (Win a pisstaker coaster for the best article of the week!)

To handle the "massive volume of material" anticipated in the near and distant future, we have streamlined the flow of posts from the homepage to their final resting place in the archives.

We are going to treat the homepage more like a genuine Daily Pisstaker page, where no posts will be more than 48 hours old. (As volume of material increases we will restrict the homepage to posts within the last 24 hours. And of it goes mad, just rip off the BBC website format and turn the postings over in real time!)

We have created 4 category pages in the side bar (Web/tech Weekly, International news weekly, Overheard weekly and Quirky Weekly) and we will transfer all 24/48 hour old posts from the homepage to the appropriate category. Then once a fortnight or as volume increases, once a week, we will dump all the "last week's" stories into the archives using the same organisation criteria.

For a moment, the left nav bar has grown a little bit, but I want a couple of those items like Contact, Site map and FAQ to be shifted around to the right sidebar either as a text link or to be incorporated into the dead hat icons. So still high visiblity but not cluttering up the joint.

We were up all night again so although we think it is an amazing piece of navigational tweaking, we cant really see too clearly if it will work for other users. Still too much scrolling going on? Totally confusing navigation now? Any further thoughts most welcome.

benf — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:06:27 +0000

I like the idea, and it looks good but stop having your pages so you have to scroll really far down. I find it annoying!

mawooshen — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:03:30 +0000

Just to add that I get problems with the fonts:

In Firefox the tagline: "Daily satire at its best" is all squashed together as is some of the bold text in the articles.
In Opera the text for all the articles is very jagged and difficult to read at the default size.

interesting

abrewitt — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:03:28 +0000

I think the concept is interesting, but the design looks a polished look, well done on using the XHTML, but you colud go the extra distance and use Strict XHTML dOCTYPE!

2mob.net — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:36:53 +0000

pisstaker;207044 wrote: I have been writing reviews of other sites and wondered if anyone would care to tell us what they think of our effort so far. Much appreciated. The Pisstakers

Relationships Stuff menu item is overlapping "writers bios" item.
This alone made me leave your site.