ezeman

I've just taken on the role to market FriendsFarAway.com and really am not impressed with it.

I'm going to have it rebuilt but would appreciate some 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ..... opinions as to what's wrong with it.

The premise is the same as other friends reunited sites but for expats and people on the move (might change the name also - too much competition & bandwagon stuff).

Please kick it to peices but also say what, if anything, is good about it.

Thanks

Kenny

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deadserious

I think it's just fine the way it is for the type of site it is.

A website doesn't have to have amazing graphics and/or look beautiful to be good lol. A simple easy to navigate decent looking site can be just as good or much better.

andrewhmartin

Perhpas consider droping the advertising links. It seems to me they take away from the sites ligitimacy.

-Am I here to find a lost friend, or be directed to amazon, make that amazon.uk.-

Next up i would lose the very stock photo looking multi-culutral-esque image.

-Over played. Way to cheesy. Perhaps replace with some characher/stylized sketchs of international people. Something that is almost logo or iconic that can become associated with the site. Original artwork, even if it is the free kind from a friend or art student.

Lastly, fix up that "friends far away" logo a bit. Perhaps get a hand drawn logo that slides right into those new stylized international people.

rest of the site looks good.

andrew

ezeman

I agree to a certain degree about the adverts. But believe they're they're not relevant enough to the site, rather than completely wrong. They also slow the site down.

I'm looking to put a clickable world map on the home page - drilling down through country & region/state to get to a list of cities with members in them. Any thoughts?

We get a hundered or so registrations a month but no-one is willing to upgrade and pay us £5 for the privilage. Although currently, the only thing they get is the ability to send an email to another member, of which there aren't enough to have any chance to find a friend yet - also no photos allowed yet.

Any suggestions as to how we might convince members to upgrade - we don't have the resources to wait for the site to grow big enough for visitors to find long lost Aunty Agnes & join just to contact her.