Thread: aussierewards.com is my first website! Love feedback...

Hi all,
I have almost completed my first website www.aussierewards.com and I would love some constructive feedback.

Regards,
Mandy

Easy to read - will need to scroll if on an 800 resolution screen, but not too much. Looks interesting. You need to reword your page title to include the keywords you research that people will use to find your site. What will those be?

Good Job.

Hi Mandy,

it loads up a little bit slow on 2mb conncetion, so for the 56k modems will be very slow....other than that you ve done great work, nice and fun site

Originally Posted by MandyN

Hi all,
I have almost completed my first website www.aussierewards.com and I would love some constructive feedback.

Regards,
Mandy

It looks good. It loaded quickly enough with my 2mb. Well done.

Originally Posted by Bethers

Easy to read - will need to scroll if on an 800 resolution screen, but not too much. Looks interesting. You need to reword your page title to include the keywords you research that people will use to find your site. What will those be?

Good Job.

Thank-you Bethers, gueorgui, and Girlonthehill... I shall edit the page title to be more search friendly.

Cheers,
Mandy

Good job, loaded fine for me.

Good looking site, and what a great idea (shame I´m not an Aussie !!!)

btw: For your information, RoboForm will not work for those people who use the Opera browser......

Good luck with your venture....

Originally Posted by davidundalicia

Good looking site, and what a great idea (shame I´m not an Aussie !!!)

btw: For your information, RoboForm will not work for those people who use the Opera browser......

Good luck with your venture....

Thanks for the tip with RoboForm... most of the links are not limited to Australians and are available for international users too...so if you wanted to use them, be my guest.

I like your site - fun, easy to read. Fast to load for me. Good job.

The site loaded quickly enough but I got no sound from the video in Firefox.

Is very good
and i love to video
it really gives you something to laugh about!

Thankyou all for the feedback... it was very helpful.

I've been told that I have to insert a complicated script for the video to work on all types of browsers... hmmm... anybody have any ideas about that?

I've just uploaded a page that contains an audio file, and would like to know if there is any trouble for others hearing it.
It is half way down the right side of the page...

Page is www.aussierewards.com/advertise/example/example.html

Any help would be much appreciated,

Regards
Mandy

Hi Mandy
I found an audio file on the left side of the page not the right. It is Mama Mia and it played ok in IE6 and Firefox.

Hi Mandy,

The pages were very slow to load on my dial up and a bit of a sideways scroll...thats all though, nice and easy to read to ...very nice ...

Good job

Originally Posted by royb

Hi Mandy
I found an audio file on the left side of the page not the right. It is Mama Mia and it played ok in IE6 and Firefox.

Thankyou for having a look royb, and you're right, my mistake, I meant to say left side. woops...

Originally Posted by Lincslady

Hi Mandy,

The pages were very slow to load on my dial up and a bit of a sideways scroll...thats all though, nice and easy to read to ...very nice ...

Good job

Great tip Lincslady... just out of curiosity, what size monitor are you using?

Helped me a lot that .......my monitor is 17inch

I'm confused... I have a 17 inch monitor too, and I don't have any sideways scroll... why does that happen?

Nice looking & clear site. Like the front page video. Hope you had Roboform installed for all the affiliates’ forms. Can’t really say much more than the other posts.

Well done.

Chris.

Thankyou Chris... Roboform comes in handy for so many things for me, including the affiliate forms.

I was just about to put a new funny video I came across on the front page, glad you saw that one though.

Regards,
Mandy

Love the video -

I am curious how you did this. Did you use BlueVoda? The windows media player is different from the one blue voda installs when I use this option to show videos.

Originally Posted by entrada

Love the video -

I am curious how you did this. Did you use BlueVoda? The windows media player is different from the one blue voda installs when I use this option to show videos.

Yes Entrada, I used BlueVoda... the file itself is a windows media audio/video file, and I used quicktime to insert it into the page.

Regards,
Mandy

Really nice site Mandy. I found some pages a bit wide but thats been said already. Good Job

i think the virgin video did it for me, fantastic, some pages seem wide but apart from that really good.

Tom
http://www.gfc-local.com

Regarding the video, how did you get the windows media player controls to appear on the page? I used the Blue Voda windows media player tool in order to insert a video and it doesn't look anything like what you have. I really like the appearance of the video on your site and would like to figure out how you did it.

Thanks

Wes

Like Bethers, I personally don't like scrolling, I loved the v-clip found your assie rewards banner artfull, but found the script too busy maybe a fount change. For what its worth I have. and will review as sites as I can. can some of you please recipracate Please

Originally Posted by entrada

Regarding the video, how did you get the windows media player controls to appear on the page? I used the Blue Voda windows media player tool in order to insert a video and it doesn't look anything like what you have. I really like the appearance of the video on your site and would like to figure out how you did it.

Thanks

Wes

I have used the quicktime tool below the windows media player tool in bluevoda, and have the controller checkbox with a tick in it in the properties.

I have placed a marquee on the index page about the problem of sideways scrolling... I personally dont like my screen set to 800 x 600 , but I guess alot of people do... so I thought for the moment, it was best for me to put the marquee on the index page so you wont have to scroll sideways, until I decide on whether I change the page size or not. I'm curious now as to what percentage of people still set their screens to 800 x 600?

Does anyone know if there is a forum for carrying out polls?

I will check out your site circuspet.

Regards,
Mandy

I,m so observent it took 10 trips to your post before eye noticed just how cool your avatar is. I know you most likely need to work and don't have all the time I do but when you get a chance rerereview my site It's so hard to see the forest for the trees.

Originally Posted by circuspet.com

I,m so observent it took 10 trips to your post before eye noticed just how cool your avatar is. I know you most likely need to work and don't have all the time I do but when you get a chance rerereview my site It's so hard to see the forest for the trees.

Ok... will do.

Mandy, I'm not sure If your still visiting this site, but if you are could you give me some insite on how to adjust the inital volume on the on site media player.

Circuspet, there is no volume control in the properties with wma or quicktime tools in bluevoda, so my only suggestion is for you to edit the file with a program like windows movie maker before you upload it to the page. But to use that file you said you wanted, you will need to convert it from a midi to mp3 first. If you don't already have a program that will convert it, just do a search for a "free midi to mp3 convertor" and download it.

After you have converted the file format, you can then import it into windows movie maker where you can adjust the volume, length, fade-in or fade-out if you want it to.

If anyone else has a better suggestion, please let circuspet know.

Mandy

Good looking, crisply functional, and visually appealing.

You took a concept to the top with regard to format, and demonstrate the professionalism that will elevate your site to the success you have envisioned! Another testament to the VodaHost Opportunity! Kudos!

Wow! Thankyou so much for your kind words Vasili.

And thankyou VodaHost for a great service.

Mandy