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  • 21-07-2010 12:19pm
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    -1. Before you post your site, read through 5-10 other site review threads to get an idea of the regular suggestions that come up time and again - try address as many of those before posting your review request, and mention that in your post - the regular reviewers will appreciate it hugely.

    0. Please be descriptive in your thread title - "New Sports Ecommerce site" is better than "New Site", and saying "what do you think of the logo and design" is a more useful question than "what do you think of the site", if you're looking for feedback on a specific topic.

    1. This forum is for requesting feedback on your website. If you post a site for critique, don’t complain if you get bad reviews. You want people to see it, you have to allow for the possibility that they wont like it. We would prefer if all criticism is constructive i.e. giving reasons to why something doesn't work, and offering alternative solutions.

    Do not take negative feedback personally - most often the person who posts the feedback is trying to help you improve the site, so take their criticism from that point of view. It's always a bad idea to be aggressive when you don't hear what you want to hear.
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