I'm building a self help website, please give me feedback?

[RonSouther]

Hello everyone,

This site is under construction and I'm looking for any feedback, positive or negative, to help me stay on track with it.

Profound Self Help - Walking Your Path While Keeping It Real

Or contribute your thoughts and be a part of it? Nearly every page has a place to share comments.

Whatever you relate is helpful! I'm looking for "mirrors"...

Thanks, Ron

[Andras]

The site looks good. I have noticed that some of the content you have "borrowed" from Steve's forum. It would be wise to ask him if that is OK.
Your own writing is yours, but other's, in form of the question are not, and Steve can make you take down your site in a New York minute.

[RonSouther]

Originally Posted by Andras

The site looks good. I have noticed that some of the content you have "borrowed" from Steve's forum. It would be wise to ask him if that is OK.
Your own writing is yours, but other's, in form of the question are not, and Steve can make you take down your site in a New York minute.

I can delete the question, but the answers are all mine.

Thanks for the feedback!

[elsopho]

I like the colors, very pleasing to the eye.

[RonSouther]

Originally Posted by elsopho

I like the colors, very pleasing to the eye.

Thanks! I'm seriously half color blind and male, so if I got it right, it's dumb luck!

[wstein]

As it stands visually, it looks nice.

It looks like it’s going to get unwieldy with more content. How is one going to find the posts that address their issues?

As to the content, it fails miserably for me. You claim “Profound-Self-Help.com does NOT have any programs, just insight!”. I see a few explanations but no profoundness and little insight.

Even assuming the explanations are 100%correct, I do not see how anyone is going to apply them to anything. It’s one thing to know what your ego and mind and etc. are but how does that help? Insight would be showing how they affect one’s life and how they may be helpful or harmful. And most importantly how the former changes into the later.

You articles/posts show a clear bias towards the issues you are facing, most notably the role the mind plays in your life.

I do not know if the above is what you intended but it is the impression I get.

I like the idea of this site but not the execution.

[RonSouther]

Originally Posted by wstein

As it stands visually, it looks nice.

It looks like it’s going to get unwieldy with more content. How is one going to find the posts that address their issues?

As to the content, it fails miserably for me. You claim “Profound-Self-Help.com does NOT have any programs, just insight!”. I see a few explanations but no profoundness and little insight.

Even assuming the explanations are 100%correct, I do not see how anyone is going to apply them to anything. It’s one thing to know what your ego and mind and etc. are but how does that help? Insight would be showing how they affect one’s life and how they may be helpful or harmful. And most importantly how the former changes into the later.

You articles/posts show a clear bias towards the issues you are facing, most notably the role the mind plays in your life.

I do not know if the above is what you intended but it is the impression I get.

I like the idea of this site but not the execution.

Thanks for the feedback!

There are no programs because programs are mind games. The solutions are not intellectual. The program is "awareness" and not 12 steps or anything. And no one is truly ready for this solution until their ego has collapsed and they don't trust their logic anymore.

The application is automatic when the light goes on, not from taking someone else's logic and giving it a whirl.

The website is an extension of my journey so a bias is certainly there. Also, it's still unfolding...I have a lot stuff that I haven't gotten to yet.

The left menu bar is primarily for my vision. I'm working on pages now that tell stories of huge challenges I faced in my life like my mom's suicide, multiple divorces with my parents, my mom's alcoholism, my lifelong wondering why I didn't fit in that led to the ADD/ADHD stuff, my own collapse of my human will where I tried to create my life, and my journey of waking up that led me to see that a life of logic is our folly where a from the heart is our wholeness, yet nearly impossible in society.

The diversity of topics in the right column is intended to offer the reader another place to go whether they liked what they were reading or not. As I get more pages for the right column then I will mix them up so pages don't have all the same thing. I'm really limited right now because I only put the site up last week and all the content is original with few exceptions like the letting go quote. It takes about 2 hours to do each page.

The answers to questions will have a "home page" of their own eventually so that subjects will be organized.

The "letting go" quote really speaks to the challenge here. Solving life issues is not another idea or program away, but a leap in consciousness away.

Thanks for taking the time to share your comments and I will keep them in mind as I continue to evolve the site!