Website Review and Suggestions

**meo** · 01-01-2011, 03:53 PM

I'm interested into first impressions, and what would you add or remove from robaid.com.

Thanks

**QFG** · 01-01-2011, 09:11 PM

My first impression was that you are probobly a reliable source because of the clean layout, custom logo, and apparently original articles. Nice site I'll check in for my technology news

**TripleMoons** · 01-02-2011, 01:45 PM

Love the robot.

I also like the detail you put into the site. I noticed the unique email icon right away. Overall it's a simple, clean website, definitely screams tech.

**meo** · 01-02-2011, 02:14 PM

@QFG: Glad to have a new regular

@lithiumweb: I tried with them for a short while and actually had lower earnings and CTR. I'm testing with images only for the first half of January, and switching to text ads only in the 2nd half to see how they perform on a longer term.

@TripleMoons: I like to draw all layouts on a paper before it becomes digitized and coded.

Since the original main niche of the website is Rob(otic) Aid, I came up with the idea to invent a character (robot) and named it Rob Aid. Glad you like its drawing/website logo

**PaulW** · 01-02-2011, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by QFG

My first impression was that you are probobly a reliable source because of the clean layout, custom logo, and apparently original articles.

Let's hope crooks never learn HTML and web design eh.

**pikula** · 01-02-2011, 03:16 PM

nice layout, interesting articles, first impression was GREAT

**rswebs** · 01-02-2011, 07:51 PM

i like it. nice and clean look.

**@SickFooDino** · 01-02-2011, 08:34 PM

Wow, your website seems very nice and legit.
Looks like you keep updating the content so thats a very good start!
The layout is simple but then again it has the ease to view look.
Haha I like your logo im not gonna lie !(x

But ahh the only thing I don't like is that everything seems a bit to cramped in together.

But its nice man!

**meo** · 01-03-2011, 09:31 AM

@pikula @rswebs: thanks

@SickFooDino: Which part of it do you consider cramped?

I gave typografy a great attention while the site was being developed. The font was smaller in all of the previous versions, but I noticed how it looks in 1920x1080 resolution on a 24" monitor and increased it a bit.

The things I do notice are a few-pixel-difference between index and category pages regarding excerpts (index willl look as categories), and I will personalize lists in the right sidebar with different icons for different lists and a bit larger font.

I had a plan to change the current excerpt system into one that would show the whole first paragraph for (almost) all articles, and first 2 in ones I consider more interesting to read (hopefully, the visitors would catch on that kind of article promotion). That would also add some clearance on the pages that list the articles.

**DirtRider** · 01-03-2011, 09:41 AM

Well done on a great site, lots of information to look at but not all cluttered into one page.

**meo** · 01-12-2011, 01:40 PM

Thanks DirtRider

**kitty890** · 01-13-2011, 04:02 AM

The layout is awesome mate ,

**ramonacole** · 01-13-2011, 08:23 AM

Nothing. It looks really cool and smooth!

**LeoJames** · 01-17-2011, 08:55 AM

add some text or images in the header otherwise its awesome

**Lemonie** · 01-17-2011, 11:40 AM

i love it. sooo good

1000px on widths entire blog will make it perfect. just my opinion

**meo** · 01-18-2011, 07:09 PM

@kitty890 @ramonacole Thanks

@enivac.com The first layout had tagline: "Who said robots aren't fun?" in that empty space, and now it serves for important announcements or some bonus content on special days (for example an image of fireworks and link to a video of it after New Year's Eve). I was thinking of adding some tweets to that area in order to show reading or viewing tips which are posted sporadically, but I'm looking for a way to automate it with minimal requests toward Twitter.

@richarie Thanks, but why 1000px? 960px is the usual width of websites these days, i added 5px on each side to make it 970 thou

**Kavita Martin** · 01-19-2011, 04:51 AM

website layout, design, structure, everything is looking great.

**carlton_david31** · 01-21-2011, 08:40 AM

i like the subscriptions options because they have a larger size than regular. I think 3 black boxes from footer should be upper, in the right side i say. Interesting subject

**dagaul102** · 01-22-2011, 09:44 AM

Nice site, nice blog look, but a little bit more info in the header as to what the site is about would help

**Battista Russo** · 01-24-2011, 08:36 AM

It seems to be a great site. I loved the the background of the site.