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Review of my site please
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13-04-2011 05:55PM#1
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SlanGoFoil2011 wrote: »Didnt work properly last time.
Worked now.
Logo is bad - doesnt catch the eye - ie not memorable.
The tag in firefox has the name of the cam - better to use the website name.
Bigger buttons needed.
Cool site and chat box
Thanks for the feedback. That was kind of the point with the logo, I didn't want anything too striking, I wanted the main feature to be the cam.
I'll definitly look into it.
I've made the button almost twice as big
I think I'll stick with that size. 0 -
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SlanGoFoil2011 wrote: »And who is the guy that wont be happy???????????????
I got the idea from a guy on here that posted a similar site a few weeks back.
Great idea that I thought I could improve on, but aparantly the logo is $hite
Is anyone using IE having any trouble with the site? Are you being re-directed?0 -
I'm in China, so it's very later here.
:eek: And I was gonna buy you a beer thinking you were somewhat local :P
Personally, I hate the site. I checked it out 3 hours ago and finally just closed it do some work. Its too addictive!!
I do think there's something missing to it.
I think having the "Next Random Cam" by the ads can be misleading. Maybe place it centre underneath the cam? Also, as someone mentioned, if you could do a geographical search, that would be nice.
Oh, something to think about in the future, generate a list of cameras which are awake depending on time and location. A lot of webcams are dark and still late at night so there's not much going on so if you could filter out and have just ones from say 6am to 12am or something. That's just a thought though. You can have a lot of different filters like that, it would be really good if your db of cameras grows, maybe even necessary.
Your "suggest a cam" page has the "Leave a reply" form at the bottom, looks messy. Also, for "suggest a cam", have a box for "cam address" so people can fill it out. When you're dealing with an audience on a random site you have to hand feed them.0 -
:eek: And I was gonna buy you a beer thinking you were somewhat local :P
Personally, I hate the site. I checked it out 3 hours ago and finally just closed it do some work. Its too addictive!!
I do think there's something missing to it.
I think having the "Next Random Cam" by the ads can be misleading. Maybe place it centre underneath the cam? Also, as someone mentioned, if you could do a geographical search, that would be nice.
Oh, something to think about in the future, generate a list of cameras which are awake depending on time and location. A lot of webcams are dark and still late at night so there's not much going on so if you could filter out and have just ones from say 6am to 12am or something. That's just a thought though. You can have a lot of different filters like that, it would be really good if your db of cameras grows, maybe even necessary.
Your "suggest a cam" page has the "Leave a reply" form at the bottom, looks messy. Also, for "suggest a cam", have a box for "cam address" so people can fill it out. When you're dealing with an audience on a random site you have to hand feed them.
Cheers, agree it still needs to be tidied in places.
But I'm happy just leaving the 1 button. Kind of like a 1 armed bandit.
Nearly all of the cam sites are overloaded with too many options, I kind of like the mystery factor.
Cheers for the input.0 -
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stephenpalmer wrote: »I think its great that you have come up with such an original idea. In fact it seems extremely familiar to my website, actually you have taken every single webcam from my site, and placed them on your site. What site you ask? http://www.watchthiscam.com
Now I cant say i'm annoyed its bound to happen, it is the internet after all. But to think that you have the cheek to submit it on boards.ie and request a site review a month after I submitted mine?
Good luck with yours. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
So you came up with this idea yourself originally? There isn't a single site like this online anywhere else before you set yours up...? Since when does posting in the forum about your site first suddenly mean no-one else can ask for feedback on a similar site? If this bothers you dude you won't get far setting up online businesses...everything gets copied.
The dude is perfectly within his right to post up his site for feedback - cheek has nothing to do with it. In fact I'd say you're the cheeky one to think you have any right suggesting he can't ask for feedback.
Bacon personally I think you've done a really decent job of making a nice clean site, so often I've seen people new to this and they have the notion the site has to be full of complete nonsense text/graphics. It's really clear what your site is and it won't make people think...which is actually a really good thing. Well done.
I'd consider putting your "Click to report broken post" underneath the NEXT RANDOM CAM button and just make the text grey so it's not standing out too much (also change "post" to "camera"). I came across a broken one and was too damn lazy to move the mouse to the bottom of the camera to tell you about it so I just clicked next - the quality of the site will be maintained as long as not too many are broken so having this as an easily accessed user feature could pay off long term and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people are as lazy as me! 0 -
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So you came up with this idea yourself originally? There isn't a single site like this online anywhere else before you set yours up...? Since when does posting in the forum about your site first suddenly mean no-one else can ask for feedback on a similar site? If this bothers you dude you won't get far setting up online businesses...everything gets copied.
The dude is perfectly within his right to post up his site for feedback - cheek has nothing to do with it. In fact I'd say you're the cheeky one to think you have any right suggesting he can't ask for feedback.
Bacon personally I think you've done a really decent job of making a nice clean site, so often I've seen people new to this and they have the notion the site has to be full of complete nonsense text/graphics. It's really clear what your site is and it won't make people think...which is actually a really good thing. Well done.
I'd consider putting your "Click to report broken post" underneath the NEXT RANDOM CAM button and just make the text grey so it's not standing out too much (also change "post" to "camera"). I came across a broken one and was too damn lazy to move the mouse to the bottom of the camera to tell you about it so I just clicked next - the quality of the site will be maintained as long as not too many are broken so having this as an easily accessed user feature could pay off long term and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people are as lazy as me!
Well put dude. stephenpalmer is just showing his inexperience in IM. I probably would have had the same reaction a few years back. If he plans to post any more great ideas or niches on a public forum such as this, I'd be more than happy to copy them.
It was a fun project that I thought I'd try out, I know there's room for improvement with the usability, but I'm concentrating on more important projects at the moment. Thanks for the tips though.
And trust me, most internet users are very lazy and fickle... some people aren't even willing to wait an extra few seconds for the cams to load.0 -
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