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bathheaven
Joined: Oct 17, 2002
# Posts: 92
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Posted: 2002-Nov-13 08:17
It didn't do much for me. Black writing on white text. No content other than the home page. maybe after you put some more in it we can look at it again.
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laffarsmith
Joined: Nov 28, 2001
# Posts: 21
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Posted: 2002-Nov-19 01:00
Well, things started off well then got worse and worse.You pages are about 30 or 40 pixels too wide for 800*600, it's such a small width why not make it fit to that browser size. The green border down the left looks good, why not even it out with one on the right? Clean over all appearance, easy to follow. Beautiful menu's but I hate having to wait for pages to fully load before moving on. Bad, very bad, get rid of the under construction pages, it waste's your bandwidth and visitors time. What's with the empty select lists on FreelancerList.aspx and ProjectList.aspx seems like you need to focus on content a lot more before you ask for further reviews. From a design point of view the site is clean and simple, just what I'd be looking for with a site of that content. the text and links are clean but the lack of content is a real problem, I hate feeling like I've wasted my time loading a page because there is very little content or it's 'under construction' Generally every single site and page is under construction on the web, it's a given. If it doesn't exist, don't link to it.
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chucklight
Joined: Nov 11, 2002
# Posts: 6
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Posted: 2002-Nov-19 11:50
Thank you for you comments and suggestion, I will be working on the layout some more. The site is for any freelancer that has a talent to market, not just computer based.As far as content, it will populate as freelancers and buyers sign up and post their information. Which is the real struggle, I do not want to post fake content just to get people to sign up, but without some content of some kind, I will not persuade anyone to sign-up. I am open to suggestions how to over come this problem. I feel like I am struggling with the age-old question of what came first the chicken or the egg.
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Carole61
Joined: Nov 16, 2002
# Posts: 12
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Posted: 2002-Nov-19 14:49
Regarding the chicken and the egg dilemma...how about searching for websites created by individual freelancers and contacting them to invite them to participate in your new venture? I don't believe that would be spam since they are already advertising for opportunities (others here can certainly correct me if I'm wrong). If sign-up is free and can expose their capability to a broader audience, I would think most would consider the invitation.
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blainehilton
Joined: Sep 19, 2002
# Posts: 114
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Posted: 2002-Nov-20 02:30
I really like your site. As a freelancer myself it could prove to be usefull for me. The great thing is its all free. I would not pay when you do not have projects avaible on the site yet.The image on the top left looks like its from a Microsoft product, which I don't believe is very professional. Thats just my personal opionion though. I'm using Windows Me with MSIE 5.5 and your menus are working fine for me. I like them, very clean and concise. The one that I do not like though is the Contact Me one because it lauches my email problem which will crash my computer when I'm multitasking (over 20 windows) and that would aggriviate me, and I'm guessing other web professionals would be in the same boat. Also I would work on ways to make your site "sticky" such as by adding a newsletter, or an automatic notification when a project is added, or page updated type thing. I work on your CSS though because it should be able to change from 640 to 1600 smothly. Keep up the work, the start is the hardest, but if you can build up both buyers and sellers it can become a large and highly visited site.
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Marc Peters
Joined: Aug 11, 2002
# Posts: 52
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Posted: 2002-Nov-21 05:10
Seems like you've taken advice and change your backrgound colour, but I really think you should either extend the green bar at the top to full screen (100%), but limit the text from extending beyond 800. That way you don't get an empty with space at the top. Or maybe have the green as your backround color with a white table over the top to give the impression of a greem frame.
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uriah heep
Joined: Nov 08, 2002
# Posts: 7
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Posted: 2002-Nov-21 18:30
I think the site is still in its teething stage. The concept is great but perhaps you could take a look at some tightening up the home page. Too much of white space etc. The mouse-over drop downs are good, but I just hope they work on Netscape as well. We had quite a hellish time when we used this dropdown script here!! Overall, I'd say it is a good site. Good job
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chucklight
Joined: Nov 11, 2002
# Posts: 6
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Posted: 2002-Nov-21 22:05
Thank all you again for your feedback and I did listen to you. After a few days of work, got a number of issues worked out. Found out that VS.Net is the strongest HTML editor, I did figure out how to work around it. The HTML editor was not reason I decided to go with .Net. That is another discussion. Have tested everything on Netscape, latest version and it works great. I know that not all of the links work, but I would appreciate feedback on the changes made. All of you have helped. Thank you.
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Popped in Crashed Out
Joined: Nov 22, 2002
# Posts: 11
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Posted: 2002-Nov-22 23:16
Nice, clean, simple and refreshing, however, on my slow AOL connection (56KB), the drop down menu appears slow to actually drop down. Would suggest maybe modifying for slower connections aswell.May I also suggest putting your menu into the white part of the page rather than the green? and possibly centering it.
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Popped in Crashed Out
Joined: Nov 22, 2002
# Posts: 11
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Posted: 2002-Nov-22 23:20
Cont...May I also reccomend using an ASP contact form rather than a direct mailto link, especially since, not everyone has access to mail clients directly (I know we don't at work)?. I can send you a CDONTS ASP contact form if you like? (you can view the form by going to my website and clicking on the contact or survey menu's).
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chucklight
Joined: Nov 11, 2002
# Posts: 6
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Posted: 2002-Nov-23 00:40
With regard to using mailto vs. some other method of contact, I prefer mailto because it does require a mail client. Granted I can develop an internal system that does not use e-mail at all, but that will happen in time.
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