| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 6:31 pm | #1 |
| Tell me what you think about my blog Its fairly new and just wanting some feedback about how it looks visually, and the content etc. Check it out if you have time :) http://thefilmkiwi.blogspot.com Cheers |
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| geek_0800xford | October 31, 2008, 6:34 pm | #2 |
| please feed that kiwi. |
| geek_rhys.m | October 31, 2008, 6:35 pm | #3 |
| Banner is too big. Height wise. Theres LOTS of advertising too. Dunno if thats a Blogspot thing or what...Other than that I don't read movie reviews so won't comment on the content. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 6:37 pm | #4 |
| Cool, will look at making it a tad smaller. My friend put the ads on for me, it does tend to slow it down a bit but if your on broadband its not too bad. Thanks for your feedback! :) And i will venture to feed the kiwi ;P |
| geek_dunedin_ree | October 31, 2008, 6:37 pm | #5 |
| Very cute but I'd use categories to indicate whether it's a review (or not) rather than putting ***REVIEW***. It's a bit cramped with advertising, though. I'd tend not to put an obviously commercial blog on a free service though, thefilmkiwi.com would be way better. |
| geek_0800xford | October 31, 2008, 6:38 pm | #6 |
| if you put some grass or plants or stuff in the banner would look better, maybe dvd cases strewn around among the plants? |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 6:40 pm | #7 |
| i have categorised the reviews on the left about half way down, as well as top 5 lists so it makes it abit easier. I will get my mate to take some of the ads of as it does look abit messy. Will also try to ad those things, i thought about putting more detail into the banner but i only used ms pain to make it so might be a tad hard :P thanks again all, some good tips! |
| geek_dunedin_ree | October 31, 2008, 6:43 pm | #8 |
| I like the minimalist banner it just clashes with the overly busy bottom. I didn't see the top 5 etc - pretty much shows that it's not obvious/clear enough (and that I probably have adult ADHD). |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 6:47 pm | #9 |
| Yea i also like the banner abit, i guess going on what you guys have said i should reduce the mess below. Have just moved the cateegories to the top left so its easy to see and reduced the banner size so its not as tall as much as i can looks much better :) |
| geek_flewy | October 31, 2008, 6:50 pm | #10 |
| LMAO |
| geek_dunedin_ree | October 31, 2008, 6:50 pm | #11 |
| Get rid of the live traffic feed (it's annoying and only of interest to you) and have only ONE amazon banner. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 6:53 pm | #12 |
| Ok have just got rid of the feed, and my mate is doing the amazon thing now. Looks much cleaner now :) |
| geek_oclaf | October 31, 2008, 6:54 pm | #13 |
| My thoughts half the size of the top banner. only run ads down one side of the content. get rid of gimmicky stuff like the who was here traffic list no one really cares and it just looks unprofessional. lose the small ads at the top under the banner. finally get rid of the google search bar, everyone knows where google is and besides most people have a search bar incorporated with their browser. other than that good site. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 6:56 pm | #14 |
| Cool thnx, done and done! although i cant really get the filmkiwi banner to go much smaller without screwing up the quality and image size etc |
| geek_oclaf | October 31, 2008, 6:59 pm | #15 |
| Nope thats good. huge improvrment now get rid of the chat box. its in the same category as the where from thing. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:01 pm | #16 |
| Cool, gone..the page loads alot faster now too and rolls more smooth. Cheers for the tips, so far looking much better ! |
| geek_julieandcasper | October 31, 2008, 7:03 pm | #17 |
| The top bar is definitely too big, as someone already said, but I do like the image, it just needs to be smaller. The jandles for ratings is a neat idea. I like the way you review the movies and give an honest opinion without spoilers. The side bar top fives were amusing. :) Overall, good job. I don't know about ads, maybe my ad blocker was doing it's excellent thing. ;) |
| geek_0800xford | October 31, 2008, 7:04 pm | #18 |
| hey it's looking better man. the banner looks good! i dislike the narrowness of the text field though. short sentences, i feel like a fat kid who's out of breath reading it :o |
| geek_oclaf | October 31, 2008, 7:04 pm | #19 |
| Thats looking good now. only other big issue is your ad variation. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:05 pm | #20 |
| What is ad variation? .. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:07 pm | #21 |
| Yea i will try to work on making the banner smaller, and also try to find out how to make the txt field bigger, i think its a set width in blogspot so is quite hard to change i could make the text smaller so it would fit more in but then it would be too small. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:12 pm | #22 |
| Ok have just made the banner as small as i know how to looks even better :) |
| geek_0800xford | October 31, 2008, 7:13 pm | #23 |
| the colour gradients don't match up at the top, there's a very distinct line on either side. |
| geek_oclaf | October 31, 2008, 7:17 pm | #24 |
| By ad variation i mean people don't like seeing 5 different amazon ads. try find some other ads to use aswell like google for instance |
| geek_julieandcasper | October 31, 2008, 7:18 pm | #25 |
| You're right about the gradients. Also, just looked at it in IE, so no ad blocker. If you could move the ones at the top to the right instead like the Amazon ads I think it would look a lot nicer. (it looks nicer in Firefox that way with the ads blocked) |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:20 pm | #26 |
| Ah ok, will try put some more variants in there. That is a problem i cant get around, as the background of the blog slowly gets darker as you move down the page, but i can only get the banner to be a solid colour, so you get some parts of the banner matching the gradient of the background but as it moves down it becomes obvious that the banner is just a solid colour. I will try shift the amazon ones to the other side :) |
| geek_oclaf | October 31, 2008, 7:23 pm | #27 |
| You make the image a PNG make the green area transparent so only the kiwi and words show against the sites background. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:27 pm | #28 |
| Ah ic...will give this a go sux when you only have paint to use, lol. Thanks for the advice, hopefully will look cool if i can just get this banner thing |
| geek_julieandcasper | October 31, 2008, 7:30 pm | #29 |
| I love the colour! There are some paint shop similar free paint programs on the net, some of them quite sophisticated. Someone will post the names here, I can't remember them as I just cheat and use Paint shop. I tried a few of them out though and they're good! |
| geek_julieandcasper | October 31, 2008, 7:31 pm | #30 |
| As I said, I love the kiwi and the font on the banner really suits too. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:33 pm | #31 |
| Thanks julie am just working on that graident thing now, looks as if it might work! Which is good, hehe. Thnx for ur advice also, the blog looks alot nice and doesnt take as long to load also :) |
| geek_oclaf | October 31, 2008, 7:35 pm | #32 |
| Here try this i didn't do it perfect but it should look alright. http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8611/filmkiwipngzy6.png |
| geek_deodar | October 31, 2008, 7:35 pm | #33 |
| You could include some Music Reviews.Just a suggestion... |
| geek_0800xford | October 31, 2008, 7:39 pm | #34 |
| how about some 'kiwi music' badges? - [http://www.amplifier.co.nz/] bottom right. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:39 pm | #35 |
| Wow thats awesome, so now if i have saved the background from the blog with do i just copy it onto that picture? Was thinking that too, might give it a go even though im not too clued up on music it might apeal to a wider audience :) |
| geek_dunedin_ree | October 31, 2008, 7:42 pm | #36 |
| I stay stick with what you have and expand later. But you should have a special Kiwi Films section, top 10 NZ movies of all time, filmed in NZ section, etc. Up the kiwi a bit :) |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:44 pm | #37 |
| Cool, will chuck that badge on there and yea i guess i should kiwi it up abit, considering its 'thefilmkiwi' etc, hehe. Cheers :D |
| geek_julieandcasper | October 31, 2008, 7:45 pm | #38 |
| This is going to look really nice when it's done. |
| geek_dunedin_ree | October 31, 2008, 7:47 pm | #39 |
| Separate site themusickiwi. Ya know, like lolcats and failblog. A nice blog family. |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:49 pm | #40 |
| Yes! the banner worked! haha so happy, yay that would be cool too, like a 'franchise' thing with the whole family, hehe. What a cool idea! |
| geek_julieandcasper | October 31, 2008, 7:53 pm | #41 |
| Ahhhh! Banner is much more awesome now. I love LOL cats. Icanhascheezburger ftw! |
| geek_tomeva01 | October 31, 2008, 7:53 pm | #42 |
| Thanks oclaf for the image too dont know how u did it but it worked.. Looks ALOT better now, have to nip out to the shops though now...thanks alot everyone for your advice and tips, couldnt have thought of any of that by myself lol |
| geek_0800xford | October 31, 2008, 7:59 pm | #43 |
| nice, teamwork aye =) cheeseburgers? forget that, eat goat - http://is.gd/5iWk ha ha ha |
| geek_stardesta | October 31, 2008, 8:14 pm | #44 |
| Re I like it. Well done . |
| geek_oclaf | October 31, 2008, 8:15 pm | #45 |
| No problem dude good luck with the site |
| geek_dunedin_ree | October 31, 2008, 11:32 pm | #46 |
| Http://themusickiwi.blogspot.com/ When you start making money off that, I want a filmkiwi t-shirt as payment for the idea ;) |
| geek_tomeva01 | November 1, 2008, 1:35 am | #47 |
| Haha no probs if it does ever get that far. Id prob have to find someone else to do the reviews though as with music i am more restricted to certain genres any others and i wont like from the get-go. I thought id make an account incase the name gets taken, which prob wouldnt happen but you never know |
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