Website Review and Suggestions

**sleepy127** · 02:45 AM

Could you please review my sites and maybe critique it a little?
Thanks,
James
Open Road Biker Motorcycle Forums and Biker Blog

**Minfoman** · 04-25-2007, 11:49 AM

It took me way to long to figure out what the web site did. I understood that it is a biker site, but I didn't get the finer points till I looked a little bit. I would put a brief paragraph explaining what your all about at the top of the site. This will help for indexing and for people viewing the page. I like the colors. They match the theme of the site. Another thing is the site is too wide. I am viewing it on a regular 17 inch screen, full screen, and I still have to do a horizontal scroll to see the whole page. I would say those are the two biggest problems for now.

Good luck

**sleepy127** · 04-25-2007, 12:24 PM

Thanks, I will work on the horizontal scroll thing and also a site explanation at the top.

**vkw91** · 04-25-2007, 12:27 PM

Open road biker
Looks great but the marble back on the logo doesn't seem quite right...

Motorcycle forums
This took me ages to find the menu. The ads look a little scatty.

**scorch** · 04-25-2007, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepy127

Could you please review my sites and maybe critique it a little?
Thanks,
James
Open Road Biker Motorcycle Forums and Biker Blog

Hey sleepy, i saw your website because I was looking for similar websites to mine. I just finished cycleposers.com.

I like your site, the forum is pretty cool. Are you having problems attracting riders?

I really liked the top 100 motorcycle sites. Something I never thought of.

The size of the site is also a bit large for one my computers, but I guess i will have to upgrade one day. Good work! Looks great.

**sleepy127** · 04-26-2007, 02:56 AM

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Originally Posted by scorch

Hey sleepy, i saw your website because I was looking for similar websites to mine. I just finished cycleposers.com.

I like your site, the forum is pretty cool. Are you having problems attracting riders?

I really liked the top 100 motorcycle sites. Something I never thought of.

The size of the site is also a bit large for one my computers, but I guess i will have to upgrade one day. Good work! Looks great.

Thanks, and yes it isn't easy to attract riders. My blog is doing ok though. None of my sites have made it past a page rank of zero yet though but my alexa rank has went up on my blog from like 3.9 million to 1.5 million in 2 weeks.

For all of those people pointing out stuff that is wrong thanks. The only thing I wasn't sure about was the menu on the forums. What would the suggestion be to make it easier to find? As far as the adds go what would be your suggestion on that.

I am planning a new template for the front page (www.openroadbiker.com) that will use the same colors and banner as the forums. I am also going to roll it into the gallery also. It will just take some time for me because I am learning as I go.

**budabing103** · 04-26-2007, 07:32 PM

Great looking site. What are your hits looking like so far?

**sleepy127** · 01:07 AM

This is some of my stats for the last 7 days;
7.Successful server requests 29,636 Requests
8.Successful requests in last 7 days 28,283 Requests
9.Successful requests for pages 1,213 Requests for pages
10.Successful requests for pages in last 7 days 1,125 Requests for pages
11.Distinct files requested 4,692 Files
12.Distinct files requested in last 7 days 4,602 Files
13.Distinct hosts served 2,091 Hosts
14.Distinct hosts served in last 7 days 1,959 Hosts
15.Unwanted lines in the logfile 29,546 Lines
16.Total data transferred 309.48 MBytes
17.Total data transferred in last 7 days 291.13 MBytes

**tuomastolppi.co** · 04-27-2007, 05:39 AM

Tables are for tables, css for layout.

**sleepy127** · 04-27-2007, 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by tuomastolppi.co

Tables are for tables, css for layout.

Please explain. I am not very xhtml/ css smart. Understand I am using a template in joomla that someone else made. Once I can figure out how to make it myself I will. I am working on one though.

**scorch** · 06-06-2007, 02:04 AM

Hey sleepy, how is your site going?

**pixelecho** · 06-06-2007, 02:34 AM

Maybe the silver text on the dark grey background should be changed to white to make distinction and more easy to read without loosing the harmony.

**scorch** · 08-12-2007, 12:21 PM

Your site is really taking off sleepy!

I was just in belgium a few weeks ago, beautiful country you live in.

**goheadtry** · 08-12-2007, 02:50 PM

What is this site? Also your site needs a decent header