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cutebaby
Joined: Apr 04, 2004
# Posts: 17
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Posted: 2004-Apr-05 01:36
Name of Site/Business: Are You A Bored Teen
Site's Main Purpose: Fun/Leisure
Please Review the following:
Does the home page sufficiently convince people to go further into the site?
Navigation. Is it clear and easy to understand?
Appearance/Attractiveness
Additional Comments/Notes
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lhaase
Joined: Apr 08, 2004
# Posts: 18
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Posted: 2004-Apr-09 22:15
I love this site! Catchy, loads quick, visually appealing. Great content. As a mother with a teen who seems to be bored 99% of the time, I endorse this type of target audience and the content within.
Now onto the critic.
I will go on my typical rant about horizontal scrolling. No matter what resolution I set my monitor at, I have to scroll right/left. Again, I start every page with a main table set at 100% or at 600 pixels. This will allow all monitors to see the full site without scrolling right/left. I don't know if this is correct coding or not, but it works for me. If it is not, someone let me know.
Not all people are going to have access to the larger monitors. Some have to access sites through their local library or at school and those may not have wanted to outlay the extra cost to have larger monitors for public access.
Your page ranking with Google is 5. I would include more keywords specifing this is a teen issue site, such as 'teen suicide', 'teen pregnancy', etc. Doing a Google search for teen pregnancy does not show you in the top 10, which is your ultimate goal.
Doing a search for 'bored teens' DOES give you #1 placement! YAHOO! But, lets be realistic, how many people will use that as a search word to find your particular content? More than likely they will do specific searches, such as teen pregnancy, teen suicide, safe teen chat, etc.
In your coding there are sections of 100+ blank lines. Do you build your pages through dazzled.com? I didn't see any code that would indicate the HTML editor you were using, so I wasn't sure. When you move this to a 'paid for' server, depending on it's configuration, these could be seen as problematic when transferring through an FTP program. I faced this recently when I moved my site from a 5+ year association to another hoster. My FTP program would not transfer the files, stating that there were 'blank line feeds', something I had NEVER encountered with any other server I had ever worked with. Just by the name of the error, I figured out what the problem was and fixed it. Although it might not seem like an important issue, it could become one. I dont know how the SE will view this though.
All in all, I applaude this site. Great work!
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cutebaby
Joined: Apr 04, 2004
# Posts: 17
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Posted: 2004-Apr-12 07:38
Thanks for your review and I'll take your comments into account. I'm not sure what to do with the resolution, I've heard about it and how it can be different on different computers but I'm not sure how to make my site visible for all (or at least the most common) resolutions. I'll have to check that out.
I'll add more site specific keywords on my pages. I've noticed that when I do my own searches individual pages from my site pop up outside from a link from the main page. So I'll try and add some more. Surprisingly, most of my visitors did type 'bored teen' into the search engine. I asked my visitors and a website tool gave me the top keyword used to find my site. That's how I knew what to type in where my ranking is the highest. I thought that was cool :o) but I'll make it more specific too.
I do use the dazzled free server. I use the blank lines mostly for organization so I can scroll right to where I need to go and the spaces help me to make categories, if that's the right word for it. But I am planning on getting my own host so I'll get rid of all the blank lines before I transfer it over, or while I'm transferring it over.
Thanks so much!!
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mommajan
Joined: Mar 31, 2004
# Posts: 28
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Posted: 2004-Apr-28 23:16
I love the content of your site! What great info for teens and a great place to hang out online!
It is very cool and fun!
The only advice I have to offer is to make your navigation a little easier. Maybe put a row of buttons at the top to help navigate through to the section that I want without scrolling all the way down the page looking for what I want. This would also help me to know what was available on the site without scrolling all the way through the homepage.
But, I say it again - very cool site.
I like that you gave helpful info (in the serious section) without too much lecturing etc. and then made professional services links available as well. Again, though, you might make these easier to navigate too, as well. Since if someone is thinking about suicide or other serious matters they may not be in a good frame of mind to look too hard for help.
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intraweb
Joined: May 10, 2004
# Posts: 2
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Posted: 2004-May-11 04:42
Aren't the frames and the two pop-ups going to cause issues with SE ranking?
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Rezac
Joined: Jan 25, 2004
# Posts: 817
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Posted: 2004-May-20 03:21
The font size is a bit sophomoric, looks like an ebay store.
All your content and links could(and should) be easily fit into a pages half that size.
You have a great idea.
I just did a study on what is 'cool' in a marketing class this semester. Teens and Tweens define what is cool. I don't want to sound mean, but whats with the baby sucking on a pacifier? That's not going to help you identify with teens, cute is not cool.
Get rid of those shared boarders, I've heard Search engines don't like sites with those.
Good Luck! 
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kenzee03
Joined: May 21, 2004
# Posts: 6
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Posted: 2004-May-21 19:29
What an awesome site...so much to do.It is very clear and easy to understand and navigate and is successful at inviting the viewer to go further and explore what you have to offer. Personally, I prefer a little more color or some images (maybe something to identify each block) to spice it up...just my little 2 cents..I think you've done an outstanding job!
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irodgers
Joined: Oct 15, 2003
# Posts: 14
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Posted: 2004-Jun-06 15:51
I'm not a fan.
The site took ages to load. I guess thats the fault of the hosting company not the site.
It looked very like exploitation to me.
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rmar
Joined: Sep 14, 2004
# Posts: 12
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Posted: 2004-Sep-15 02:53
I like the content of this website a lot!! However the appearance of the website could be improved a lot.
Also try using a scripting language (like PHP or ASP) instead of a mark-up language for your website. This will really make life much easyer for you.
Overall I like this site a lot!!!!
Cheers!!!
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