New Design - LookThisUp.com

[boomers]

LookThisUp.com
http://www.lookthisup.com

Following a previous request for reviews Ive now updated the site. There are more options for search (including a websearch!) and Ive also added a logo (kindly donated by a NamePros member) & more colour to the site.

To try and make the site more accessible Ive added the option for FireFox users to add LookThisUp to their search box within the Toolbar.

Would appreciate any opinions and suggestions

 

[antman]

Website Design Review
Site: LookThisUp
Domain: http://www.lookthisup.com

All Ratings are out of 10...

Appearance and Design - 8
Navigation and Accessibility - 8
Activity, Popularity and Marketing - 6
Originality - 8
Loading Times - 6
Quality of Content - 6
Features and Interactivity - 7
Visitor Rating - 8

Overall Rating - 7

Detailed Analysis

It seems that not many people today start to create search engines because of such larger competitors, but introducing a new style, as your site has, is something new and I commend you for it. The bad side however, is that although it may be different, visitors may still decide to stay with the big guns. Your aim is to show why your search engine is better and if you can do this, you could be very rich and famous.

Doing some quick test searches, it was not as fast or collaborated quality or quantity results (as expected). I assume that you have some bots and spiders running around the web now looking for content and this is a big factor that you need to develop. I'm not sure if it is under your control or not, but without decent quality and quantity results, you will not expect many visitors using your site.

You've got an 8 in one engine. That is something new that does attract me as I have different sites for definitions and you've rolled it all into one. Excellent. It does look awkward have three lines of options. Possibly a 'More' tab that expands might be a good addition.

Your toolbar was a good addition to promoting the site - I hope that works well for you. Start creating some small promotional advertising banners and this will start to help achieve some permanent visitors to your site.

With the location and layout, possibly move it down to the center of the page instead of at the top. This will look better rather than having it like a page to read starting from the top.

As you expand, you should offer search options. For example:
http://search.ninemsn.com.au/settings.aspx?ru=/default.aspx?FORM=MSNH&FORM=SEHP and http://www.google.com.au/preferences?hl=en . I know it is a big step away, but you should consider it making it an easier introduction later on.

At the bottom of the searched pages, your pagination looks like this:

"Page:1 - 2 - 3 - 4« Back · Next »"

Move the "« Back" to the far left and place a space between the : and 1

I would also place a search bar at the bottom of the page, so there is no need to scroll up to the top again for another search.

You've gone far from square one, and there's nothing to lose from here. Just need the advertising and the quality and quantity content. Good luck.

Review by Anthony Lieu. Your site was accessed on a ADSL T1 connection, on Mozilla Firefox with a screen resolution of 1280x1024. Thank you for allowing me to review your website design - I hope it was useful.

 

[fmauniverse]

Site review

Hi. First of all, the template looks too white. You might need to colour the white background. The logo looks nice. Second, the LookUp script looks good and well-based. Third, the site idea is good and unique.

Good luck with your site!

Overall Rating: 8/10

Regards.

 

[LeetPCUser]

The Bad

• Favicon doesn't match site - It seems as if your main logo is the orange arrow. However your favicon is a magnifying glass. Although that is a good logo for search, it still seems as if it misrepresents your site. I don't see a magnifying glass anywhere else on the site.
• Input box should be darker - I think it would be cool if your input box was orange and the text was white. Right now with the white background it is very hard to distinguish exactly where the box is on my computer. If you don't want to change the box color try and make the border a little bit darker for clarification.
• Button has to be darker - The buttons border as well is very hard to see. I would recommend changing the border color to a darker one along with the search box.
• Better layout of radio buttons - It seems to me as if the radio buttons are just thrown all over. I would recommend somehow making them look a bit better. It looks like back in the old days with basic HTML and buttons layed all over. Maybe make some kind of box for them to sit in or something. I really don't have an idea of what to do with it right now, but I do think it should be changed.
• The image has got to go - The bottom image I really don't care for. I know it explains in picture format, but it is still taking away from your very clean design. I would recommend making it a link where there is a page that shows images and describes it a bit better.

The Good

• Very clean site - I like the fact that your site is very clean and amazing looking. There are no intrusive ads. It is very professional, and yet very simple.
• Logo is great - The logo for your site is also great. I really like the design of it with the arrow. It is quite unique and yet matches the simplistic look of the site.
• Great color scheme - I love the color scheme. I have seen many sites try to mirror the colors of Google or Yahoo! and it is nice to see a refreshing color change to the search engine world.

Overall
I think this is a great site. There were just a few things I would change. Overall it is amazing and cleanly layed out. Great job on the site!

 

[boomers]

Taking from your opinions Ive so far:
Changed the favicon
Added an alternative colour scheme (gets saved via cookies aswell)
Changed the order of the paging facility on the search

I'll soon be adding a better layout for the radio buttons also, aswell as another search box at the bottom of the seach results pages - and then see where we go

I hope by making these changes it shows I do listen to peoples opinions and havent just posted the site here for some cheap traffic

 

[camuk19]

Looks really nice from what i can see. One thing that bugs me is when you change the color theme of the site, the little "new" image beside the windows processes option remains orange, where it might look better blue.
Nice logo though, simple yet effective.

 

[antman]

Changed the order of the paging facility on the search

Great

It now appears like -

« BackPage:1 - 2 - 3 - 4Next »

You should space it between the "Back Page:" and "4 Next"

Keep up the good work :hehe:

 

[boomers]

camuk19 - i changed the image colour to something inbetween, didnt want to make this change to blend in as I kinda want it to stand out until I take it down

antman.ws - Made a temp change to make it a little clearer and space it out. That paging feature is a custom control and will take a little bit of redevelopment to get looking properly But I will do it