Please also feel free to rip on this site (Dude! What Were You Thinking??)

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http://www.dudewhatwereyouthinking.com

All criticism is much appreciated!

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First thoughts - smut

Do you really want a variety of visitors or just dirty old men. Get rid of the smutty pics, attract a wider range of viewers. Make your site a bit more humourous than adult content. Humourous sites always do well with all audiences.

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Joined: Sep 2006

Hello,
At first glance, your site has too much text and does not really catch my attention, but since I am writing a review, I had to snoop around a little. Those links are actually very interesting, I like the optical illusions and the balloons that were dressed up ("I want to know where these people find the time" link) i've never seen anything like that before, I have no idea where you found it but it's great!
Anyways, your site has lots of potential. maybe you could add some screenshots to the white space on the side letting visitors know what lies behind the links. Also, a horizontal scroll is annoying and kind of unprofessional, but that's just my point of view.
The tag that says: "Poking fun at the world's biggest idiots since 2005" doesnt really do justice to the site. It should say something about "if you're bored, kill some time here" or something along the lines of that.

He has: 14 posts

Joined: Oct 2006

Hey there,

^^ Definitely agree with above comments.

You should try and give your site some more color and a theme of some sort otherwise it just looks like some cheap link directory. The layout needs to either be made much smaller and fixed width so that even the smallest screens don't have to scroll horizontally or make it liquid so that it changes size to fit the window size. Some more description/thumb nails would be very helpful to make your main content seem more interesting. I also wasn't too sure what the difference between the links/cool stuff menus on the left was. Not sure you really need them.

Hope this helps!

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Well, this site doesn't impress me at all. When I see pages which are to wide to fit in 1280x1024 resolutions ... Well, I suppose I haven't seen such a page until today...

In addition I don't see anything interesting here either. Just simple collection of links.

Only advantege of the site is code - it's not so horrible, but it definitelly could be better...

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I think the layout is all wrong, this is the sort of site that should be work safe (viewable from work pc so if your boss caught you it could look like a 'work related' site - type thing)

maybe use more of a news related style, but you'd have to keep the language down a bit

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Joined: Oct 2006

I agree with most of what has been posted. It feels very generic and then it forces me to do a quick glance over and then once I do that . . .I just think it is smut and don't want to look anymore. I like the name though.

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Joined: Oct 2006

Design should me more complicated and site should include caps for videos and pictures I think, so much text doesn't impress the visitors.

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Joined: Nov 2006

Hey Submitapic,

Interesting idea for a directory of chuckles - great url btw! Says/implies exactly what the site does Wink

Perhaps as mentioned above/before you can add a few of the good pics/videos to the homepage so end users get and idea of what the site is about?

Another possible to think about is to decrease the space at the top of the page - there's alot of wasted space up there.

Good luck with the site - i'm sure i'll be coming back to find a few funny pics Wink

Best
Jonathan

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Joined: Nov 2006

If I don't have my browser full screen 'Funny pictures, videos, websites, news and more.' are all pushed way down. I like the url easy to remeber, I think you really need to spice it up a little for the type of site it is more graphics / colour. I think dates next to when stuff waas posted would be handy and one last thing seams to be a fair bit of space at the top of the page that could be used
Cheers Wes.

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site doesn't work -- I missed the smut? Smiling

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Joined: Jun 2008

The title reminds me of that film dude wheres my car.

Joking aside the header maybe could do with some work.

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Joined: Jun 2008

The site is good for those who have already been interested in links prior to entering it and the site will hardly get others interested IMHO. Maybe I have a warped mind but for me the site is not just a collection of links, we have the art of web design, don't we.

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