Hi all,

I need any opinion or feedback on my new site. It is built using plain html (edited using notepad), a free basic website template and javascript that show feed contain from various other site. I also include some adsense ads, as my purpose of building the site is to try the program.

Any constructive comment or review is welcome.

Click here (http://gadgetsfeeds.info/index.html)to go to my site. Thanks.


Raiedzall
http://gadgetsfeeds.info/index.html

looks like a really good site, youve covered all the categories i see. found it really easy to navigate. good job :)

To me, this looks excessive

<div id="header">
<div id="innerheader">
<div id="title">
<h1>Gadgets Feeds</h1>
<h2>Information Technology News Blog</h2><script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-5225146437448122";
/* 728x15, below title */
google_ad_slot = "2644751482";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 15;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div>
</div>
</div>

Surely you can cut it down to
<div id="header">
<h1>Gadgets Feeds</h1>
<h2>Information Technology News Blog</h2><script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-5225146437448122";
/* 728x15, below title */
google_ad_slot = "2644751482";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 15;
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div>

i've been doing 'copy and paste' on part of the code to match some website that have the same design.

Will correct it right away. Thanks for the comment.

Raiedzall

Dark red on red is a nightmare for the visually impaired. Try a contrasting yet complimentary colour.

I'm sure everyone knows what my first comment will be... mmm it's just a set of menus, all the content is JS generated when it'd be easier, better and safer if it was done using server side scripting. Mr Chris, this is one site i'd not turn NoScript off for because it's a prime candidate for XSS.

Style wise though, I like it...

As already said, the red text on red background isnt good. In fact, the entire page is a bit too red really, not nice on the eyes. The 2 lines of text at the top of the page are overlapping each other (or they are in Firefox at least, havent tried it in any other browsers.) And content wise, I dont get it? Whats the actual point of the site? It just seems like a load of tech news feeds taken from elsewhere.

The 2 lines of text at the top of the page are overlapping each other in Chrome and Opera also. When i look at the site it looks like a template :), raiedzall said used one but it does not need to look like that.

And content wise, I dont get it? Whats the actual point of the site? It just seems like a load of tech news feeds taken from elsewhere.
The point of the site is to generate advertising revenue, by attracting visitors using content from other sites. Not a new idea, in fact theres millions of sites like these already and alot are smarter too :)

Thanks everyone for the comments.

I've done some modification on the site, but still using red links, as i've try different color but they just don't match. I haven't try it on opera or chrome yet but i hope it will look ok this time.

I don't know what is 'server side scripting' is. Could be something that can make editing this website easier?

I'm off to make a another website like this for 'world news' feed. I will use dark back ground with white font.

Lastly, creating a website is hard, getting people to view it is harder, getting people to click on the ads is the hardest :D

Thanks again for your comment.

Cheers!

Raiedzall

I don't know what is 'server side scripting' is. Could be something that can make editing this website easier?

Love it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_scripting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_scripting

I don't know what is 'server side scripting' is.

Server side scripting is a technology for generating interactive websites using a "programming language" (Perl, PHP, ASP...).

Could be something that can make editing this website easier?

Possibly, possibly not.

I'm off to make a another website like this for 'world news' feed. I will use dark back ground with white font.

Light on dark has a tendency to put people off (mostly 'cause we're used to reading dark text on light backgrouns - ie most books).


Lastly, creating a website is hard

No it's not. It's quite simple to code an HTML based website as HTML has a very basic/limited keyword subset.

getting people to view it is harder

That's true.:)

getting people to click on the ads is the hardest :D

You'll never make much from a website that pulls content from other sites, and you'll only get significant revenue if the site is very popular. In fact (with the advent of ad blocking technology for browsers) fewer and fewer people will actually be seeing the ads (I, for example, block all Google ads when I'm using Firefox - which is 90% of the time).

I'm not trying to make a lot of money with this site, as i said earlier i'm just testing the adsense programme using this kind of concept.
But i appreciate your opinion.
And uh, don't quote this again ok :D