Please Review My Proxy Sites!

[scribby]

Hi,
I would love some feedback on my sites, please don't flame me because I've used PHProxy & CGI Proxy. I just want feedback on the designs which are all unique and designed 100% by me.

http://www.freeproxi.org/
This was a good change from the usual sites I make, I hand drew the background in Xara X, there are also two version a daytime & night time version, you can view both by refreshing until it changes.

http://www.proxyproject.com/
I wanted a darkish looking theme that was slim, and I feel thats what I've done, but I would love some feedback on this as I know there are some things that could be improved.

http://www.busyproxy.com/
This was no different from my usual designs, apart from the bright yellow and red which I think worked quite well. Still would love some feedback to make this look a little better.

All feedback is much appreciated!

 

[Mike]

#1 http://www.freeproxi.org/

#2 http://www.proxyproject.com/

#3 http://www.busyproxy.com/

1, very girlish, may serve the female, young community

2, the gamer's proxy

3, still too red.

each design has something going for itself. However, since this seems to be the year of the proxy sites, the design alone is not going to do it anymore. What else can you offer the user to be coming to your site over all the other thousands of proxies?

Solid design, but not much enticement to use it over all the others.

 

[Fka200]

I'll be using freeproxi.org from now on, very easy to remember. The designs are VERY nice!


I need to learn how to do stuff like this! It doesn't seem very hard.... but I just cant do it!

 

[scribby]

1, very girlish, may serve the female, young community

2, the gamer's proxy

3, still too red.

each design has something going for itself. However, since this seems to be the year of the proxy sites, the design alone is not going to do it anymore. What else can you offer the user to be coming to your site over all the other thousands of proxies?

Solid design, but not much enticement to use it over all the others.

I'm not really planning to stick out of the crowd heaps, I offer a nice design and a stable server with plenty of bandwidth I think that will do for now as from what I've seen most proxy's are quickly whacked together with a basic or default design on a shared hosting account and they normally go down after a month or so.

I'll be using freeproxi.org from now on, very easy to remember. The designs are VERY nice!


I need to learn how to do stuff like this! It doesn't seem very hard.... but I just cant do it!

Its actually amazing what you can do on the PC just drawing randomly, which is what I did, I've never been good at any art, so thought it would turn out terrible but its great so I'm happy.

 

[PoorDoggie]

http://www.freeproxi.org/

err... very "paint" design... dosen't look too professional. The background color is wrong, try orange or something. Nice idea, but bad implementation.

http://www.proxyproject.com/

Nice design... love the text-boxes. Very web 2.0. :D I don't think that the "candystriped" logo really fits in necessarily. Keep it one color, and make it more glassy to suit the rest of the site. Also, is too light... the rest of the site is nice and dark.

http://www.busyproxy.com/

looks a bit pathetic in comparison. I see what you are trying to do, making a cleaner proxy site, but its all a bit "amateur". For a start, the content seems to be centered apart from the input box and the "powered by" box. It looks like you have word art for a logo, and the red gradient is awful.