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My Updated, improved website.
      #38942 - Fri Jan 30 2004 06:38 PM

My updated, improved website is at http://www.pcadvice.vzz.net/.
Feedback good/bad please.

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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: pcadvice]
      #39145 - Sat Jan 31 2004 02:09 PM

Tested in IE6 56k modem 800x600. Loads nice and fast. Opening page is a bit bland - perhaps putting the menu down the left and describing in a bit more detail what all the various options have to offer. Otherwise, a nice site. All you need now is lots of visitors to get those forums buzzing. Good luck with it.

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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: nickc]
      #39235 - Sat Jan 31 2004 06:51 PM

Thanks for the nice comments!
I am taking some of them into consideration now so it might of changed since you last looked.
However, I like to use centered text so I doubt that will change.
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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: pcadvice]
      #40923 - Thu Feb 05 2004 11:25 PM

SMS Don't seem to work.
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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: stevepetmonkey]
      #40926 - Thu Feb 05 2004 11:30 PM

Dont Like the music mutch

lol
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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: stevepetmonkey]
      #40927 - Thu Feb 05 2004 11:33 PM

"This form is inoperational!", might have something to do with it - I tried the other day, seems like no change there then.
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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: TheFatControlleR]
      #40964 - Fri Feb 06 2004 05:44 AM

I must be missing something here. I saw an error page which looks amateurish as it redirects to your real web site - so why haven't you discarded that and posted the real address to start with? You may think that lets old visitors know where you are now, but to new ones like myself, it simply made it appear you don't update the site too often and have lost interest. And if that is how it looks to visitors, why would they have any interest in it either?

I saw a link to some off-site ecard service which is not your own. I saw a link to a forum which has no content. I saw a promo for some email service you have obviously signed up at and are touting to others. I saw a link asking us to divulge our email addresses so you could spam our boxes with some newsletter.

I saw a link suggesting we promote your site in exchange for the same with you, inferring we would suddenly have a meteroic rise in traffic and search engine ranking. I saw some link wanting people to vote your site as top in some ranking thing, yet you lack actual original content of your own to even justify a vote.

What I did not see was any actual "PC Advice", not even links to advice sources. So like I said, I must be missing something here, because you have not delivered on the promise the site name gives out.

You want plain honesty? The site has no theme and no consistency - unless you count the consistent low quality and jumble sale approach. Sorry, but it is a mish mash of ideas tossed together which bear no relationship to each other, and do not even contribute to the supposed "PC Advice" which the site name suggests is what it is meant to be about. To me it is just another low grade personal pages.

If you want the site to appeal and to have meaning, then you need to keep to the claimed theme, provide original content of your own and not look to toher sites for links out of yours. You need to check your coding so images don't fail, and that where you offer a service like contact form or SMS send, the thing actually works - or remove it from view until it does.

If this were my offering to the world, I would replace it with a construction page to hold the space, and start from scratch, because in my personal view, what you have now isn't even good enough to build from. Seriously, if you are going to do the job, for goodness sake do it properly. Keep to the original concept and never use fill ins which detract from that just to fill the space.

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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: safeTsurfa]
      #41114 - Fri Feb 06 2004 05:31 PM

Thanks for the comments, safeTsurfa.


I have just moved website hosts, so that is why I have a redirect. The new URL is is http://www.pcadvice.tk/. That is the reason some things don't work, however, most of the time that I am on the net is spent working on PCadvice.

The site should be back up properly by the end of Febuary.

As you can see, the site is still new.

I don't spam people, I just use e-mail addresses to notify people when I have placed their link on my site.

The traffic service is still growing, so it isn't like anyone should expect masses of hits.
And, if people don't want to vote, the don't need to click the link.

I also took some time browsing your website.
It looks ok, but I don't think that kids are going to bother to read all that or print it out. Also, they probly don't know how to set up a firewall.

The design looks a bit ameturish with the "Comic Sans MS" font, and the huge ad really puts people off.

I'd suggest you move to a diffrient host, also use http://freedomain.tk to get a free .tk address that redirects to your website.

You are entitled to your opinion and I may take on board what you have said.

The links to the e-cards are provided free of charge to me - I do my websites at no charge to me exept time - so that's why these services are hosted on diffrient servers to my own web-host.


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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: pcadvice]
      #41121 - Fri Feb 06 2004 06:03 PM

Clearly you were not looking for an honest review, despite asking for "Feedback good/bad please". However, unlike others who responded, I see no benefit in heaping false praise where it is not merited, as that will not help you to improve your skill.

You asked for feedback, you got it. If it is not to your taste, then do something about it, so such is not needed in the future.



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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: hippoface]
      #41180 - Fri Feb 06 2004 10:47 PM

...but the yellow more than makes up for it!

Besides that's the white stripes!
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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: stevepetmonkey]
      #41204 - Sat Feb 07 2004 12:33 AM



who are the white stripes?

is he the Boxer?
lo

whats happened to your avatar?
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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: hippoface]
      #41208 - Sat Feb 07 2004 12:38 AM

I don't think geocities like "hotlinking".
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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: bricat]
      #41411 - Sat Feb 07 2004 07:11 PM

You on about my Paypal ad?
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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: stevepetmonkey]
      #41415 - Sat Feb 07 2004 07:15 PM

I think he means that your avatar isn't working , probably because Geocities have cut the link.


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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: greysts]
      #41492 - Sat Feb 07 2004 10:00 PM

Oh you mean my homer!
It was my fault, I deleted the image from my site. (Which is now updated, to visit click my name below)

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Edited by stevepetmonkey on 07/02/2004 22:59 (server time).



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Re: My Updated, improved website. [Re: stevepetmonkey]
      #41506 - Sat Feb 07 2004 10:21 PM

D'OH!

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