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Originally Posted by Power  So for everyone else (especially if you are having a bad day), come and give me 10 things you hate about my article (or website).  |
Ok, I'm feeling in a particular snarky and bad mood, so I'll take your offer and deliver. But *only* because you asked for it. Otherwise, I'd have kept my mouth shut.
1. I don't like your signature at the bottom of regular pages. It's like you're trying to sell something and want money.
2. I don't like the border less page. It feels quite chaotic.
3. I don't like how on the front page it says "
Dear Friend," . I'm not your friend, you don't even know me (maybe on this forum you know me, but you don't know me when I'm viewing your site), and it makes it look like a cheap marketing thing to say "Dear Friend".
4. I don't like the "100% guarantee" sign on the right side. It seems like a cheap marketing trick, and frankly, it's meaningless. What will you give back if I'm not happy? My money back, but yet I spent $0, so you can't give me anything back. You can't give me my time back either. Action speaks louder then words, either you deliver or you don't. No amount of personal guarantee from a stranger (which is what you are on that site) can convince me of anything.
5. I don't like the fact that the "100% garantee" sign is on every single page. If you have to have a meaningless guarantee, at least, put it on just one page, not on every single page. In fact, on your guarantee you write "
we can be overwhelmed by the "Information Overload".". Well, including that guarantee on every single page helps create that information overload and clutter.
6. As some above touched, I also don't like the color scheme. Blue, Red, Black, and Bold Black all mixed together on white background is hard to read. Not pleasant, especially the way you mix colors up quite frequently. I'd stick to one color except for headings.
7. Why would you even have a testimonial page about....your website? I can understand maybe why you'd have it for a product you're selling, because the person can't see the product before they buy it. But a whole list of testimonial about a product someone can see and judge with their own two eyes? So I'd say get rid of it. Having the testimonial up there smacks of again of cheap marketing. Your website stands on its own, either it's good or it's not good. No amount of testimonial will change someone's opinion once they've been to your site.
(As a side note, do you have a background in real world marketing or advertisement? I have a feeling you're taking a lot of stuff that may work in the physical world, and wrongly trying to translate it directly to the internet.)
8. I don't like how you have links that don't work in your menu bars. For example on the left side, you have "
Letting Love Go" and "Life Behind Things". among your menu. Seems like a link so I click on it, and it doesn't work. Then I realize that it's probably something you will include in the future. Well, if you're going to include something in the future, don't create a space holder for now, it's a waste of my time trying to click on it. You can easily add it later on, or you should easily add it on later.
9. I don't like your "Update" section on your home page where you say "fixed broken link". Kinda silly to me to have that on your front page, as if the world was waiting for you to fix that broken link.
Ok, that's all I feel like searching for. I'm sure I can find other things I don't like about it if I felt like it. Enough hate for now
. You asked, I delivered.