Website Review and Suggestions

**macastaire** · 10:53 AM

Hey guys,

as my website now has been online for about 3 month, and there has been som slight changes in the layout, it is time for an evaluation. And who isn't better than the Webmaster-Talk forum users.

Visit: http://www.tinycut.net for evaluation. For those who have iGoogle. Try the iGoogle feed http://www.tinycut.net/feedmygoogle.xml

**gigitrix** · 05-15-2007, 11:16 AM

It's good, but the top ad looks out of place (the black bg makes it look unprofessional). Also, you may need to look into the legality of this site: i'm not sure youtube etc. allow downloading of files, else i'm sure it would be on their sites anyway! I like the code which fills in the box if you highlight the example: it surprised me!

The feed for google button appears to be in a strange place. I tried it, and it said "Information is temporarily unavailable", but I like the idea. Not sure what information would benefit from the syndication in your case.

Good luck with the site.

**bizman** · 05-15-2007, 01:42 PM

Kind of mixed feelings about the design. I like the layout, clean and straight forward. In my opinion its too green, and in addition I think you use too many colors (black adsense, yellow, white and black text, green background).

Its a design with a great potential and I think a few adjustments would make it really good

**macastaire** · 05-15-2007, 02:51 PM

Thanks for the feedback.

@gigitrix: I don't now how legit it is. I think YouTube don't really care, since people on their page post copyrighted stuff. On the other side, I have a disclaimer on bottom of the page. By now I was not contacted by any of the pages, and as I researched, there are a lot other services like mine.
Strange that the iGoogle gadget doesn't work. It works on mine. Short: it is the download-engine in mini-format.

**124diary** · 05-21-2007, 12:41 PM

Its not bad. BUt need little changes in terms of layout i suppose

**MattCoops** · 05-22-2007, 04:10 AM

What is the point of your site?
What is their to gain from it?

**jv16** · 05-22-2007, 05:10 AM

You should really highlight what your site is about. With just a quick look I thought this was about searching videos from Youtube etc but it's actually about downloading them.

The huge FLV player link is annoying, it's very easy to click it by accident when browsing at the site.

The site doesn't look very good, if I can be honest with you. You should use a more simple background (e.g. white), and remove the Clip of the week thing. That's just confusing.

You should consider changing the button to an image to make it stand out more. Now many people would just assume after seeing the text box and the button next to it that the site is a video search engine, that's what I did when I first saw the front page.

**delighted** · 05-22-2007, 05:45 AM

The green background was very appealing.

You could work a little more on the logo, also, it would be cool with a shade or something to the white area over the background.