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Old February 9th, 2008, 10:05 PM
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Hey everyone,

Just looking for an opinion on my site which I completed a little while back. So far no one has gave an opinion on it, and I just need an overall idea of what people think of it.

Clickable link to my site.

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Old February 9th, 2008, 10:21 PM
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Nice site, keep up the great work.

I have 2 suggestions:

Put some static text about your site on your homepage and maybe a heading like 'latest news' above the news items that are currently on the page.

For the news item details, do not put it all on the homepage (author etc), display that on the page that the user gets taken to when they click on the topic.

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Old February 10th, 2008, 09:26 AM
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Very nice and clean, good blog skin. My only suggestion is to add some curved corners to the white area.

Just on a business note, if the text contained in the linked pages is true, then you need to think about changing it. From my experience, people want to have total confidence in their web-guy, and the best way to this is never to post personal information on the site and your age! Let them guess what age you are when the jobs finished and they are happy.

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Thanks for the comments, guys. I was thinking about most of the things you said, and just needed a second opinion to put them into effect. If anyone has any other ideas, don't be afraid to tell me

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Is your e-mail address correct on the page ? Just that 'admin [at] ryonhunter.net [dot] com' doesn't seem right to me, having a .net followed by a .com !?
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When Little-Foot's mother died in the original "Land Before Time", did you feel sad?
I usually only cry when no ones around, Ryon, but it's not something I want to think of when I'm about to hire someone.

I think you need to think about your target audience a bit more. Are you serious about charging people for your services or is your site meant to be more casual?
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That is just a place holder, I agree, I am currently putting into a CAPTCHA system. It blocks some bots, but others come through. I think that was meant to be more of a joke than anything, but it makes due at times.

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Ah, that's a good idea.

I just wanted to let you know if I were looking to hire someone, personally, I would like to see a site that's very formal.

Congradulations on getting your site up. And, of course, good luck!
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Old February 14th, 2008, 03:44 AM
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Site is OK, plain but easy on the eye.

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Originally Posted by your site
admin [at] ryonhunter.net [dot] net.


Your front page refers to you in the 3rd person,
but the rest of the site is I /me ...
I think you should be consistent throughout.
Choose one and stick to it.

Same with contact me and "how did you hear about us?"

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I agree with the general sentiments of other posts in this thread about seriousness,
but design wise fairly solid.

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Old February 14th, 2008, 04:13 AM
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I like the colors and the header in your site ...

comments :

I viewed this site in 800X600 res. the width of the textarea in the 'add a comment' form and contact form is more than background wrapper just reduce it a bit will look more nice and the vertical spaces between adjacent text fields

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Old February 14th, 2008, 10:40 AM
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I like it, its simple and easy on the eye.

I'd put some spacing between the fields in the forms and possibly change the navigation links to a larger and bolder font, also see how they look in white.

Also I'd add a home link to the navigation, not everyone knows that clicking the header/logo will take them to the home page.

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Old February 27th, 2008, 01:06 PM
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unfortunately I didnt get to see it yet cause your host lock, but let me know when its backup

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