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Friends Saying My Website Is Crap!


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My mates say my website (Elliot's World) is boring and crap. It's REALLY gets me down, since I've spent months writing it up! All they come up with when I ask them what THEY would like to see, all they suggest is porn, MP3s, or jokes. All I can tell them in return, is that's it's pointless; since there are 1,000,000 places on the Internet to get each of them! Anyone got any ideas on how to improve my website in general to stop em moaning? Kinda like a site critique

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Thanks for the replies so far guys! Here's what I have:

Updated:

Screensavers page updated (thanks for the screenshot idea Eduardo!)

ToDo:

Currently creating a whole new template. Basically the same layout/style, but more compact coding. Will include a randomly-changing logo (changes upon page load) inthe corner (you'll see what I mean soon)

Rotating Ideas:

? Humor

? Colour

? Pictures

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simple table layouts CAN look good, just take my "site" for example.

It started out to just be an extremely simple and fast loading layout... i've even gone so far as to add some javascripting in there to write the tables so that excess code is not loaded

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the thing is not how your site looks, but what's on it. i've seen very elaborate flash sites that look absolutely amazing, but there is nothing to do or read about. so that will keep you entertained for maybe 2 minutes.

but i've also seen very simple designs with lots of interesting stuff that makes you keep coming back for more. if you build a website you have to have something to put on it, even if it's something silly like a pony fanclub or whatever. as long as it's about something specific that you enjoy.

take a look at my website for an example. extremely simple design, and not a lot of content, mind you, but it is very specific and therefore interesting if you're into that kind of thing, in this case downtempo music.

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I don't have many hobbies that haven't already been covered in much detail on 1,000,000 other websites :(

well if thats what's holding you back and you're looking for unique content, maybe look at it this way.. there's 1,000,000 other websites out there that have the same info you already have.

unique is difficult. i'd suggest forget unique, just make it fun.

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ask them for sugesstions, besides pr0n & mp3's.

Its a nice site. Better than what I would make, belive me. Though there's not much to see on it. The templates are the hardest thing to do on it. After that putting contect is easy.

The reason I'm quoting Mezz is I'm theorizing either:

1) Your friends don't like the fact there's no pr0n or mp3's on the site. Then you'll have to add some. Legal MP3s and pr0n that is.

2) Your friends only use the Net for pr0n and mp3's. In that case, unless you follow #1, they'll never visit your site. :p :p

Of course, I'm probably being a bit silly ( as usual ). Cheer up!

Have your friends give you back some positive feedback. Criticisms are usually not constructive since you don't know what to do. You have the template done, you just have to add content which is easy to add from here on.

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It isn't like personal sites tend to be high traffic anyway. Most contain static infomation etc that doesn't really change that much. So as far as content goes, just use things you like and don't try to force people to like your site. FTP is better for sharing files between friends anyway.

As far as the site goes, might want to add some back links for the mac users out there. ;)

Also, some images or grafix would be an easy way to spruce up the look a bit. Is a forum really necessary when you have Neowin? :D

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alright, I'm kinda in the same boat as you. I too have a personal site and I didn't really know what to do with it. But, after a while, I put some forums up. Alot of my friends that visited the site alot before joined it, and now we got a nice community of people there. Maybe thats what you could do.

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make a rant of the week and make it humorous, but also like serious. Add a few images to your website, and maybe a get some guy off uglypeople.com and claim it's you. Um, yeah maybe post like a hot chick or something there, and maybe some screenshots that you stole from some site about a new cool video game you're into.

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Install a forum that works :D

Its pretty basic (not that this is bad) maybe re design it into sections of stuff you want to include and use images etc.

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