How can I improve my site?

[shankapotomus]

I'm trying to create my own automatically updating news aggregate site (in the spirit of the drudge report) with an online news magazine appearance. Basically, I want it to be just a bunch of links to news items but with a somewhat huffington post look. I'm using google news rss feeds and rssinclude.com for most of the feed boxes. But my css is not the best and the feed boxes move down in smaller browser windows. Does anyone have any tips on how I can make this work better and pull this off? Basically, any advice you can share that you think will improve what I'm trying to do.

Here is a link to my site.

The thing is, I know of a video distribution company that pays you to host their news video content and that means, if I can get this to work and make it presentable, I will have an automatically updating news script people will be able to monetize and make money from. i'd be willing to share this script with anyone who can help me improve it... Thanks...

P.S. Also it would be helpful I think if you can let me know how the site looks in your browser.

 

[iowadawg]

Note: HuffPo and Drudge update 95% manually.

 

[IntrepidPoster]

If you are updating automatically, then i am impressed. The site seems a bit bland though. I think that it needs more color, maybe a different layout.

 

[shankapotomus]

If you are updating automatically, then i am impressed. The site seems a bit bland though. I think that it needs more color, maybe a different layout.

Thanks.

Well, yes everything is updating automatically and all the article boxes did have a picture and short description to go with each link but I shut them off because you can kind of tell they are google news rss feeds otherwise. And, if you think about it, the popular drudge report website is pretty bland as well.

It's true that the drudge report is 95% manual link content, though. However, I'm not looking for drudge like traffic...if I get a quarter of what drudge gets I would be happy. Plus the rss feeds give me a lot of flexibility regarding what feeds I can splice into the news boxes. I can add multiple feeds to one box and really vary it and mix it up. Of course, on the down side of the automatic feeds is I don't have the option of making up my own headline links which I really don't want to do any way.

 

[IntrepidPoster]

You're right. The Drudge Report is pretty bland too. I think that its color scheme helps it out, as well as a few images. It would be better not to make a carbon copy of their site though.

 

[ezcoms]

I am envious... Put some ads on this and make some money. Keep up the good work!

 

[sophiax]

May be a different layout would be better for your site

 

[shankapotomus]

Hi everyone.

I changed the url of the site because I bought a new script I am trying out but I am still working on the one mentioned in this thread. So if anyone still wants to critique my page, I moved it temporaily to here.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts. it's getting better by the day but I still have to tackle that box display issue in different browser sizes and resolutions. You can see what I mean by zooming in while viewing my page. The boxes to the right will move down below the boxes to the left. I am wondering if there's any way to fix that. I'm not sure there is because everyone's browser's zoom level is set differently. Seems almost impossible to fix.