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Site: LookThisUp.com

Hey there, Ive literally just finished putting this together... Ive deliberately left the design plain as I dont really know what to do with it, thats partly the reason for my posting.

Im planning on adding a web-search & thesaurus (just ironing out the cranks)... what do people here think about adding an encyclopedia? Would that just be overkill?

So all in all what im after are suggestions, does a site like this *require* some sort of design or does the google-ish 'plain and simple' approach work better?

Would appreciate any and all opinions

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Hi. First of all, I don't think you need a very nice template if you are making a Google type of site. Just need to make a banner I guess. Second, Thesaurus and Web Search and Encyclopedia plugins are very good. They will make your site better.

Good luck with your site!

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Something Vague

Hi,

I like the site. Interestingly, I would like to establish a design for you (if you like). I think it should also be simple like google.

JanineXD

Site: LookThisUp.com

Up's
» It has a simple design, I can make you a design for a cheap price if you want.


Down's
» On your main page, Center the LookThisUp Header and the search box.
» create a simple ' About Us ' or contact us page for website problems.


Thank You,
- Janine

antman

Site: LookThisUp

Praise
[^] Good concept
[^] Easy to remember domain
[^] Simple design
[^] Nice favicon
[^] Very quick to respond. Your website responded in 0.55 seconds, and your homepage downloaded in 0.68 seconds.
[^] A Google search for "LookThisUp" finds this website as #1

Things to Fix
[!] Center the layout
[!] Get a banner
[!] Lack of images makes it a bit boring
[!] Need to increase database, some simple words aren't included
[!] Contact/About Us page needed
[!] Might want to have small ads to increase revenue


It just needs to increase the database and spice up the layout. Good luck!

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Ben

Although there are plenty of other websites which offer dictionary searches, yours seems to "just work" with a simple and clean interface. You could stop there, and say it's complete, as it does what it's ment to, but here's a few pointers:

• your HTML doesn't validate against the W3 standards, you can check this at http://validator.w3.org and fix any errors it returns;
• the scrolling favicon gets a bit annoying;
• no where on the site does it actualy explain what the site's for;
• a little bit of colour never hurt anyone, add some style to the site;
• the urls "/dictionary.aspx?id=blah" are a bit messy, if you're using Apache you can use the mod_rewrite extensions to change this to "/dictionary/blah/".

Hope that helps.