TextTraffic.com - just launched

[Graeme1]

Hey what do you think of my new site? comments please.......

[Jason]

Graeme1,

I have moved your post to the "Overall Review" forum since you were not asking for a barter. Please be sure to review someone else's site in this forum as well.

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Jason M. DesRoches
Co-Founder / Business Development
Big Resources Network (http://www.bigresources.com)
jason@bigresources.com
ICQ: 17947522

[kevin]

I think you have a good idea and wish you luck. You need to check grammer and spelling on the home page(the only page I looked at). Not too professional to have conspicuous grammer and spelling errors.

Regards,
Kevin

[jalouda]

hi graeme,

i agree with kevin that it's a really good idea.

your site is simple, easy to navigate and well laid out which is great to see.

i am not that keen on the colour of the side panels, but that's just a minor point.

what res did you design for? i use 800x600 and had to scroll to see the far right, but it did not seem enough scrolling for a 1024x768 res...just curious.

you must have fixed most of the spelling mistakes..i still noticed a couple of things like "there" instead of "their" etc. mind you kevin probably needs a few "grammar" tips too! ;)

good luck :)

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~jalouda~
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[kevin]

DOH !!

I deserved that one.... :)... hehehe

[Jason]

I gave it a good link at 123webmaster. You have your shot now kid, let's see what you can do with it ;)

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Jason M. DesRoches
Co-Founder / Business Development
Big Resources Network (http://www.bigresources.com)
jason@bigresources.com
ICQ: 17947522

[Graeme1]

thanx guys but guess what my worst fear came true i went to bed last night and when i got up this morning my site was doing a DNS erorr, but well i got straight onto the tech support so it should be up soon as the guy is working on it now

[kevin]

Nothing worse than a DNS error !!

I hope you don't think I'm being rude or presumptouos, (not that I ever am) but the banner you have is kinda dull.... and the file size is too big for such a simple banner. I went ahead and made a couple, you're under no obligation to use it or like it or anything. Take a look, if you think it's good enough to use be my guest. If not, no problem. Took me about 20 minutes to put together. File size is only 1,800 bytes and 2,500 bytes animated, versus 10,600 bytes for the one you made.

http://milleneum.virtualave.net/images/banner2.gif

http://milleneum.virtualave.net/images/banner1.gif

Regards,
Kevin


[This message has been edited by kevin (edited 01-06-2001).]

[Graeme1]

ah atlast its back up anyway today my banner is going in a rotation for 200,000 pageviews do you think it will pull in any hits you can see it at http://www.texttraffic.com/images/banner.gif

[Graeme1]

i will also use your animated one and see which gets the most clicks :)

[kevin]

OK...make sure to save it and upload it to your server. I will delete it from the server I have it on in a couple of days.

Regards,
Kevin

[Graeme1]

you banner was getting clicks while my banner got none :(

[kevin]

Don't frown.... hits is hits... my banner or yours. And anyway, it's your banner now. Glad it's getting some results for you.

Here's a tip.... when making banners, compare results of using anti-aliased and non anti-aliased text, especially if it is small text. Anti-aliasing can make some text harder to read, and it bumps up the file size because of the increased number of colors needed to create the smooth looking anit-aliased text. Your banner was using 49 colors and the ones I made only used three. Even though yours looks like it only has three colors they are actually 49.


Regards,
Kevin

[This message has been edited by kevin (edited 01-08-2001).]