Welcome to Writing Forums, one of the fastest growing writing communties on the web.
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions, articles and photo galleries. By joining our free community you will
be able to talk with other writers, get feedback on your work to improve your writing skills, discuss ideas, share tips & tricks, network and make friends!
Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact support.
| Writers' Resources Links to and discussion of writing related sites and handy resources, including but not limited to publishers, on and offline magazines, contests and guides. |
06-04-2008, 12:17 AM
|
#2
|
|
Wordsmith
Join Date: May 2007
Location: On islands
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,989
|
Hi "Hearts"
Look, please don't take this as an insult or slighting, but your site is an incredible mess. All those little goofy animated gifs do anything but paint a picture of professionalism or people who know what they are doing.
I'd strongly suggest you clean it up and replace those three spreding mold cultures or whatever with copy regarding who you are and what you do.
Ditto the guy inexplicably kissing a fish on a writing site.
Another thing...and a lot of small publishing sites do this...WHY have all these buttons take people to EMPTY category pages? You wear out the interest of people who keep clicking them for nothing and having to back out.
Just remove the link and leave them dead if there's nothing to see there.
Good luck
Last edited by lin : 06-04-2008 at 12:19 AM.
|
|
|
|
06-04-2008, 01:00 AM
|
#3
|
|
Member
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 4
|
Hearts on fire press
Hi,
Thank you for your suggestions. I just wanted to say that I have only had my site for about two weeks so I am new to this. I had it plain and simple and somebody said that it was too bland so that it why I added the animated items. I just went in and deleted all of the animation and took off the blank links. I do think that it is somewhat bland now. So any suggestions would be helpful.
thank you
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2008, 01:35 AM
|
#4
|
|
Wordsmith
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South-east UK
Gender: Male
Posts: 5,896
|
Well top marks for accepting constructive criticism and acting on it. Though I'm disappointed I missed the man kissing a fish.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2008, 05:55 AM
|
#5
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Location, Location
Gender: Male
Posts: 3,677
|
Bland is good, for websites. Bland says "I want this to be easy for you to read and use, and I'm more worried about content than presentation."
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Olly Buckle
The ways of the world are twisty and unknowable, the only way to be sure you are not caught out in something you regret is not to do things you may regret.
|
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2008, 09:35 AM
|
#6
|
|
Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Michigan, USA
Gender: Female
Posts: 21
|
First congratulations on going forward with your ambitions. Many people dream but never do.
As far as suggestions for your site, it has a clean, easy to navigate sense right now. As has been mentioned, too much stuff just frustrates users as they try to find whatever it is they seek. As you grow, make sure to give your reader valuable and useful info, not distracting graphics.
One other note, I strongly suggest you have someone edit your site as I found several errors without reading too far. No matter how good a writer or editor we are of other people's work, it's common to read right past our own typos and mistakes.
Since your site will probably be the biggest representation of the work you do and the products you produce, attention to such details is needed to communicate the treatment you will give to other people's submissions.
Hope this is helpful.
|
|
|
|
|
06-04-2008, 12:23 PM
|
#7
|
|
Wordsmith
Join Date: May 2007
Location: On islands
Gender: Male
Posts: 7,989
|
Try placing one of the cooler book covers up top beside the welcome message. A little larger. The tiger one would be great. You can change it from time to time...maybe have a "Featured Title of the Month" caption under it.
I'd recommend you get away from frames. Study the source files of sites you like the looks of.
Put a TITLE in the title metatag. HEARTS OF FIRE PRESS: Wonderful Fricking Books
no need to have your URL in the keywords..in fact, that might mess you up.
Get a stat counter, set it for invisible, and put it on every page so you'll know who's visiting and where they came from.
|
|
|
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 02:04 AM. Powered by vBulletin, Copyright ©2000-2007, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
LinkBacks Enabled by vBSEO 3.1.0
|
|
Newsletter |
 |
|
Subscribe to Majestic
the official newsletter of Writing Forums and lit.org
|
|
Link to Us: 
|
|
