Natural Blog Review
This is the last review of 2011! Roll on 2012 where I have more reviews lined up for you all 🙂
Here is your free website review from The Website Doctor
http://sid-natural.blogspot.com/
1: Centre the title. Makes it look better in my opinion.
2: This was meant to be aimed at your slogan, but the number moved :O Anyway, make each ‘i’ that is on its own a captial, so it would be ‘Here I write about things that I have ….’
3: Good size picture, although it is a little long. I can’t see any text on the landing view.
4: This font is a little bit childish to me, but if you like it, then stick with it.
5: Blue and pink? No. Not for me anyway. I think you need to put a bolder colour in there somewhere, because it looks quite faded at the moment.
6: This is possibly the most blunt question I have seen. It’s not really exciting. Think about it this way. Which of the following are you most likely to vote on?
– Was the design of my blog good easy enough for you to navigate it?
or
– Did you like the design?
The first question is much more detailed and asks you to base your vote on a certain part, where as the person might have not liked the coloured, but liked the font, so is unlikely to vote.
7: AHH! Not the Live Traffic Feed again! I absolutely hate this widget. I don’t like it displaying where I come from, then publishing it to the world. It’s like its invading my privacy. I know it is fun for the blog owner to see where their traffic is coming from, but the novelty soon wears off. Get rid of it.
8: A lot of your photos have a copyright water mark on. It makes these pictures look ugly and horrid. Try and use pictures that don’t have a dodgy watermark.
9: Lastly, Make this widget longer so there is no scroll bar on the right. It makes it easier to read and more user friendly.
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YourFreePlace Website Review
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http://yourfreeplace.spruz.com/
1: The title ‘Your Free Place’ doesn’t really tell me much about the website. I think you need a slogan to give me a little more information.
2: This header reminds me a lot of a well known download website. I just can’t remember the actual name of the website. If I remember it, i’ll post it as a comment.
3: It doesn’t hurt to use a few capital letters around the place. In fact, it makes it easier to look at.
4: It’s like a ghost town round here. Â You should make some accounts that you control and reply to some topics to get a few replies.
5: Ghost town…
When I first look at your home page, I don’t know what it is. Is it a forum? Is it a social network? Is it a blog? I really don’t know. The landing page for the link should be, like Facebook or Twitter, a page that lets you log in or register, but also tells you what the website is. You also have members and member in your menu bar. I don’t know what the difference is, except the ‘s’.
Okay, so you have eight members. Fair enough, but now lets look at the active members, just one. You should encourgage these people to be more active on the site. Offer them a reward or something, such as ‘If you are active on the site for a few weeks you can be a moderator on the forums’, or ‘free advertising if you become active’. Along those lines. If you choose the free advertising one, do something like ‘For every two weeks you are active on the site, you get one week of free advertising’. This means they will continuously have to be active to get more advertising.
You also need to create some fake accounts. I touched on this above, but all these are, are accounts registered on your email address (hide the email addresses), then you just interact and talk to yourself on it. Then when people see there is some action then they might join.
Remove this text. Because you said ‘we’, I assume you are talking on behalf of all of your members. You have now stopped everyone who uses Windows from joining.
!!! You could at least give us a little  preview of what we are about to join in this box!
Overall, I think you need to clear up a niche for your website, something that it focuses on.
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Day 25 It’s Christmas!!!!
Merry Christmas!
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We hope you enjoyed the Christmas countdown. Be back next year for the second countdown!
Day 24 Christmas Countdown
It‘s Christmas Eve!
Lets celebrate by tracking Santa on his flight through the world (or entertain your kids with it!)
Track him here
Soul Blind Ministry Blog Review
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1: Change the background. Use a different image that is not readily available on blogger. It’s okay to use a solid or gradient colour when another website has it, but if it is a fancy image, then it should be unique, and in my opinion, no other websites should use it. So search Google (or draw up a background yourself) that new bloggers will not easily be able to pick as the background. This is the same background as one of the blogs I reviewed a few months ago.
2: This title is okay but….
3:…this is also the title. It would be good if you could move this picture banner to the top and remove the single black title. It would make less like the template, and more unique.
4&5: I like the way you have videos on one column, and content on the other. If you don’t already, I’d put a new video each week, and update the content section twice a week. (If you made that video, what software did you use?)
6: I would take that voting thing off. Anyone can vote on it (I think) so you will get spammers and ‘funny people’ who will vote all of your posts as 1 start. Not good.
7: Â This isn’t very clear on the screen shot, but this is suppose to be able the snow. I like it! It’s not so much snow that it annoys you, and its not too little that we cant see it. Good!
8: This picture is rather big. It fills up the whole landing view when I visited this page. This means you have to scroll down to get to the text. Make the image smaller so it fills up just about half of the page, so we can immediately see some text too.
9: Again, watch the image size. This image is so big it goes over the edge of the white column.
10: This picture is okay width wide, but the length is too long. You should make it smaller so the whole image fits on the screen. It means we don’t have to adjust the screen to view it.
Errm, how many URLs does your blog have? You have a .com url there, so I would make sure you use that one all the time because it is the most professional.
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Day 22 Christmas Countdown
Remember the film ‘The Snowman’?
Well here is a good quality version for you to watch!
Day 21 Christmas Countdown
Whoops! Didn’t realise I had two Day 21 posts! Well, you lucky people, you now get TWO things today! (Think of it as you forgetting to open an advent window, then getting two the next day!)
Anyway, here goes:
Wow, nearly there!
How about using a christmas twitter button? Use an image similar to the one above, and link it to your Twitter profile (On the twitter home page, click profile, then copy that URL). Makes a good replacement for those who don’t want to display their latest tweets on their blog!
Day 21 Christmas Countdown
Only three days!
For any pianists out there. Includes sheet music for free.
Day 20 Christmas Countdown
Hold on! Only 4 days left, and you haven’t brought someone a present! What are you going to do?!?!
Visit this website of course!
The Website Doctor 