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canker · 01-09-2005 3:53pm #1

Finished this site over a month ago but have been adding some new features recently.

Would appreciate any comments, especially if they're of the "I like the site!" sort

Seriously, any comments . . .

http://www.farmingtheworld.com

Seth Brundle · 01-09-2005 3:59pm

I like the site!

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P&L · 01-09-2005 4:00pm

pretty damn cool, have you got many people signing-up for their own websites yet?
Or is that one of the new features?
Did you develop the whole thing completly from scratch?

canker · 01-09-2005 4:13pm

Or is that one of the new features?

Yeah, I completed the build your own sites thing just yesterday, one person has set up a site so far.

Did you develop the whole thing completly from scratch?

Yep!

cgarvey · 01-09-2005 4:19pm

Nice site, good work! A couple of small HCI issues (like "where do I click" syndrome in the pages where you break the results down by country) .. but good job!
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beller b · 01-09-2005 4:26pm

very good..I like it

fluent · 01-09-2005 5:24pm

Sweet site, clean, quick and easy to navigate
would maybe decrease the opicity on squares overlay a bit, would make images stand out a bit more along with titles, maybe a bit more color throughout also... great work though, hats off!

rsynnott · 02-09-2005 1:22am

Generally nice. Your AdSense ads are below the fold. That's not a good idea if you want people to click on them.

Gordon · 02-09-2005 9:13am

I like it. Whats the dealy with the site knowing I'm in Greece? I have a wee Greek flag up top and no Greek news stories on the right. Is that a future thing or are there just no Greek articles?

LegacyUser · 02-09-2005 9:19am

nice site.

canker · 02-09-2005 9:21am

The site detects what country you are in and gives you quick links to all content from that country, it obviously looks better when you come in from Ireland or one of the other countries that has loads of ads and news articles.

Nice to see the country detection working, all I can tell is that it works if you are in Ireland

Serbian · 02-09-2005 1:56pm

Gordon wrote:

I like it. Whats the dealy with the site knowing I'm in Greece? I have a wee Greek flag up top and no Greek news stories on the right. Is that a future thing or are there just no Greek articles?

If you are looking to do country detection, you can use Maxmind's GeoIP Database. It's free and it works perfectly. It has a couple of minor limitations which are listed on the site, but to the average site it wouldn't really make any difference.

canker · 02-09-2005 2:15pm

I used http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/ for the country detection. It's also free and its very easy to set up. All the help on the site is for setting it up using PHP and mySQL but running it with SQL server 2000 and asp is straight forward enough(that's the way I'm using it).

mneylon · 02-09-2005 2:49pm

The Geo-IP stuff usually falls over a bit with ISPs like UTV

Nice site - I don't like the left-alignment as I end up with loads of space on the right, but that's probably more of a personal thing than anything else

Gordon · 02-09-2005 3:50pm

Ah that's cool, nice one.

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