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Old 06-24-2006, 08:39 AM THREAD STARTER               #1 (permalink)
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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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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.
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Old 06-24-2006, 08:15 PM   #4 (permalink)
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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.


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[^] 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
????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/web-design-reviews/210334-lookthisup-com.html
[!] 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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Old 06-25-2006, 06:42 AM   #6 (permalink)
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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.
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