Input Please

[grwolz]

Hello all,

I just finshed off www.AnimePirates.com and I wanted to know how it looks. I am pretty happy with it, but unsure about how easy it is to navagate, and the optimazation of my ad placements.

If anyone has any input, id love to have it.

Cheers,

 

[Mike]

Nice utilization of WP. Theme is a bit on the dark side but generally works well. Navigation is the usual "WP ease of use", nothing out of the ordinary or confusing there. The ad placement isn't bad on the right side bar, the center adsense is a bit displaced :imho: check with analytics and look at the site overlay to find out whether the center bar is generating any revenue. If not, get rid of it and use the space for something better.

Overall, not a bad job.

IB

 

[Porte]

Agree with above points. I think that the current ad placement for Google Adsense may lessen your revenue or decrease the chances of getting clicks. I would recommend If a unit from these 2 is directly visible to user on front. Everything else is looking fine. Great work, and good luck!

 

[grwolz]

Thanks for the feedback guys! Rep added to both of you.

I removed one of the ads that was in the center of the page. I think that was the one you were talking about.

Cheers,

 

[Turco]

Honestly, I don't like little fonts and I see that many people don't like either. If you want to be more readable pages, you should make your font bigger.

As general, I don't think "dark background color+light text color" is a successful mixture for design. It makes the eyes tired, but I know it is hard to change all the theme because of this. So this is your choice.

WordPress is a very famous script, you can find much better themes if you want. And gadgets/widgets are very common. You may try some of them in order to improve your site.

Anyway, this is ok as well. Not bad, I think.

 

[domainscafe]

IMO Website Looks good , But i feel Placement of ads is not professional

 

[grwolz]

Thanks for the input guys.

I had thought that a darker site would work better with video, theater style watching. The dulled darker colors would not distract the viewer from the video they are watching.

But now that I think about it no other site has a black bg, youtube, google vid, you name it.. So I will work on changing the colors to a much lighter site.

The theme I have is great and allows for tons of freedom when it comes to changing it so I wont have that much of a problem.

The adsense placement has been mentioned but solutions or suggestions have not been. The site has like 2 visits a day atm it went live like 3 days ago and I have just started to promote it so there is no adsense stats to back up better performing ads. If you have an idea of where they might work better that would be great.

Cheers,
And rep added. :wave:

 

[grwolz]

Because of great feedback here AnimePirates.com now has a new "softer" look and bigger readable fonts.

Ad placement will be changed once the site grows to monitor placement.

Thanks all who replied.

 

[mike1023]

Great job on the redesign, I was going to give you my review but you fixed pretty much every key point I was going to make. Looking good!

I have only two suggestions:

I would recommend removing the cross hair mouse pointer, from my experience this wont make or break your site or anything but sometimes tends to give a light feel to the site almost as if you used some sort of page generator to create the links which you haven't.

A simple addition that I feel would really bring your site out and give it some dimension would be to add a small drop shadow on the right border of your site. Since it is centered and has a very clean feel I think that would make a huge difference in a positive way. You can easily achieve this using CSS and adding a right border 2PX and making it a few shades lighter than the existing border.

Anyway, props. great work man! Good luck.

 

[proson]

your website looks good but too few content, and the ad may be try one under your banner as well.

 

[mickfolley]

good work!

Honestly the site looks amateur. The design elements you're using are not up to par with a "modern" website. The structure of the homepage also doesn't work. In IE7 there doesn't appear to be any type of grid layout. Looks as though content boxes are overlapping or each is sized/positioned differently You should work on your grid for the site to help it flow a little better or if you like to spend some bucks to get the necessary makeover then consult a web design company for related improvements. Still personally I think you need to have a really sweet homepage to ignite the viewers interest in clicking through.