Website Review and Suggestions

**AHelpingHand** · 03-08-2007, 05:38 PM

It's meant to be not very complicated design, I want visitors to concentrate on the tutorials: http://www.tutorialsroom.com

**AdsenseDumb** · 03-09-2007, 04:10 AM

You've put all precondition that need to make your site to be a good adsense website (simplicity, color blending, quickly open, etc), maybe you could put another adsense block (so it will be three of them, and get mre impression), and one Google Search Bar right below the header it will be nice.

Sorry for my poor english

http://domainforfree.info

**Angelosanto** · 03-09-2007, 07:22 AM

Thats actually not a bad little site. I don't really like the placement of the navigation but the rest seems to work ok.

You need to increase the height of your 'container' div so that it will hide the border of the div at the bottom of the page.

I like the logo

**topboy** · 03-09-2007, 08:19 AM

nice, very quick and easy to navigate for, i think its nice

**PJDev** · 03-09-2007, 02:06 PM

simple straight to the point. nice.

**AHelpingHand** · 03-09-2007, 04:48 PM

Thank you very much for your reviews.

**travelagent** · 03-09-2007, 05:02 PM

It's complicated alright and I don't understand your objective -- can't you make it simpler as to what you're trying to achieve?

**Junije** · 03-09-2007, 05:38 PM

Actually, its quite simple and lean, though it could use an eye of a proffesional...

**5ways** · 03-09-2007, 07:03 PM

I like it. Its clean and simple to read. A few pictures would be ok too.

**AHelpingHand** · 03-16-2007, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by travelagent

It's complicated alright and I don't understand your objective -- can't you make it simpler as to what you're trying to achieve?

What is Complicated about it?!

**Kibeth** · 03-16-2007, 04:17 PM

Its not really complicated at all. I always favor tutorials as a great topic for a site, good luck!

**ADAM Web Design** · 03-16-2007, 05:33 PM

I think travelagent used the wrong word when he said "complicated" (sorry dude, but I gotta call you out on that), but he had the right idea...the site's theme is ambiguous. Is it about tutorials? Is it about humour? Is it about downloads? You're all over the map, and so far I'm just looking at the opening page.

Keep the tutorials and lose the other stuff (or move it to other sites). The other things don't suit the tutorial theme.

Okay, moving off of the opening page...

Your other major issue is that it doesn't seem like many of your tutorials are unique tutorials. They look like badly rewritten versions of tutorials and articles that are already out there (the "Gone in Sixty Seconds" one in particular.) If you're going to offer tutorials, you need to make them as concise, clear, and grammatically correct as possible. Right now, they're not. I don't see a reason to come here and look at your tutorials vs. say the ones at www.good-tutorials.com (something else you'll want to do...study the competition and try to kick their asses.)

I don't normally comment on aesthetic issues, but in this case I have to: I don't like the Georgia font at all. It's a font that is difficult to read and that handles numbers terribly.

I think you've got the right general idea: keep it simple as far as the layout goes, focus on the tutorials, don't worry too much about graphics and stuff. You just need to focus a little more on the usability aspects, that's all.

**hostking** · 03-16-2007, 06:14 PM

nice looking pretty good

**AHelpingHand** · 03-17-2007, 09:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

I think travelagent used the wrong word when he said "complicated" (sorry dude, but I gotta call you out on that), but he had the right idea...the site's theme is ambiguous. Is it about tutorials? Is it about humour? Is it about downloads? You're all over the map, and so far I'm just looking at the opening page.

Keep the tutorials and lose the other stuff (or move it to other sites). The other things don't suit the tutorial theme.

Okay, moving off of the opening page...

Your other major issue is that it doesn't seem like many of your tutorials are unique tutorials. They look like badly rewritten versions of tutorials and articles that are already out there (the "Gone in Sixty Seconds" one in particular.) If you're going to offer tutorials, you need to make them as concise, clear, and grammatically correct as possible. Right now, they're not. I don't see a reason to come here and look at your tutorials vs. say the ones at www.good-tutorials.com (something else you'll want to do...study the competition and try to kick their asses.)

I don't normally comment on aesthetic issues, but in this case I have to: I don't like the Georgia font at all. It's a font that is difficult to read and that handles numbers terribly.

I think you've got the right general idea: keep it simple as far as the layout goes, focus on the tutorials, don't worry too much about graphics and stuff. You just need to focus a little more on the usability aspects, that's all.

Well, a lot of critics here

thank you for spending some time on my site.

My site age is only about a month while www.good-tutorials.com is more than 4 years so it's very hard to compare besides I am trying to provide my own content (even if the subject is already in the internet as it is the case of almost any subject you think about) while sites like www.good-tutorials.com offer links to other sites submitting to them meaning they don't write their own content.

Download part won't be that much because I'm only offering programs made by myself, most of them will be something like utilities. It's not like a dedicated site of downloads where I host other people software.

I just thought I would also have links of some funny videos i see on the internet so my site won't be boring and get some more traffic while adding more tutorials content.

About the font, what font do you suggest? verdana ?

Again, thank all you for your efforts.

**wogazm** · 03-17-2007, 09:16 AM

two words: too blue.

**ADAM Web Design** · 03-17-2007, 12:50 PM

Verdana or Tahoma, one or the other. Verdana might work better because you don't have a lot of content and it's a "fatter" font.

The downloads might be a good thing to keep if you can somehow tie them into your tutorials. Not sure if they should be on the site otherwise, but if they're a freebie it might work as a bait. I'm of two minds on that issue, now that you explained it a little more clearly. (You may want to do that on the site, though, so that it makes sense...something like "Free Software I Built").

**travelagent** · 03-17-2007, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

I think travelagent used the wrong word when he said "complicated" (sorry dude, but I gotta call you out on that), but he had the right idea...the site's theme is ambiguous. Is it about tutorials? Is it about humour? Is it about downloads? You're all over the map, and so far I'm just looking at the opening page.

LOL - yeah; I can't make this keyboard type what I tell it, so Adam catches this old fart...

**ADAM Web Design** · 03-18-2007, 01:38 AM

What can I say? I'm an anal-retentive butthead.

**travelagent** · 03-18-2007, 02:20 AM

At least I'm in good company...

**AHelpingHand** · 03-18-2007, 02:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ADAM Web Design

Verdana or Tahoma, one or the other. Verdana might work better because you don't have a lot of content and it's a "fatter" font.

The downloads might be a good thing to keep if you can somehow tie them into your tutorials. Not sure if they should be on the site otherwise, but if they're a freebie it might work as a bait. I'm of two minds on that issue, now that you explained it a little more clearly. (You may want to do that on the site, though, so that it makes sense...something like "Free Software I Built").

I'll make the changes you mentioned, thank you a lot for your help and time.