Website design

[iCatch it]

Hello,

I have made a website but i keep on changing it because i dont know if it looks good enough or proffetional enough.

Please could you give me feedback on what i need to change or if there is anything i could add to my website and if my website is good or bad .

Thanks

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[joannakay]

I think it looks great, although you might want to...

1. put some more bright eye catching colours on it.
2. Make sure the customer knows its free, or they might just think your selling one and leave.

[pspupgrade]

Hey there.

Can I just ask, are you using a website template? Normally they make sites look much more professional, and there are some great ones out there.

[Djoscar]

The navigation is too dark.

The explanation table is quite small.

Copyright ©2009 Freebiejeebies? I thought your site was called iCatchIt?

[joannakay]

Originally Posted by Djoscar

Copyright ©2009 Freebiejeebies? I thought your site was called iCatchIt?

Thats a very good point, you will have to put the name of your own site there, you can't use freebiejeebies because it isn't your site.

[pspupgrade]

Also, I would convert all of the dollar figures into pound ones on your explanation table, as your site is a UK one.

[ElectroGirl]

In response to your website review request, I have come to a conclusion that your site seems terribly familiar to the Imoose website
Here - http://imoose.co.uk

Here are a few problems...
The banner of the site is a tad grainy

Instead of the phrase 'Home' you could say ICatch It - Free PS3, Free PSP, Free iPod, Free iPhone ect...

Here are some comparisons of Icatchit.co.uk and imoose.co.uk...

Imoose said...
Advertisers are finding it more and more difficult to persuade people to try out new products and services. Companies spend millions of dollars each year trying to get new customers via television, magazine and billboard advertising. Recently a new trend in the advertisers 101 handbook is something called ‘affiliate marketing’. Wikipedia has described affiliate marketing as ‘an internet based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each customer brought about by the affiliate marketing efforts.’ This is precisely what Freebie Jeebies, and the free gift scene, is all about.

You said...
Advertisers are finding it more and more difficult to pursuade people to try out new products and services. Companies spend millions of pounds each year each year trying to get new customers via television, magazine and billboard advertising. Recently a new trend has appeared called 'affiliate marketing'. Wikipedia has described affiliate marketing as an internet based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each customer brought about by the their efforts. This is precisley what Freebiejeebies and the free gift scene is all about.

Opening paragraph of the Imoose website said...
This website is designed to show you how to get any of the latest Apple products such as the iPod, MacBook or iPhone for free.

Opening Paragraph of your website says...
This website is designed to show you how to get the new Apple merchandise for FREE like the ipod touch, iphone, macbook, imac and more.

Your banner is also very similar to the Imoose site.

Imoose said...
•Your happy because you have received your gift without spending a penny.
•Your friends are happy, because once they have completed their offer they can set about getting their free gift.
•Freebie Jeebies is happy because they have made a profit.
•The offer company’s are happy because they have 10 potential new customers.

You say...
So, who's happy...
•Your happy because you got your freebie.
•Your friends are happy because they've found a new way of getting freebies.
•Freebiejeebies are happy because they've made a profit.
•The offer company are happy because they've got new potential customers.

Those are a few comparisons. Please, write your own content

[Djoscar]

[iCatch it]

Hi pspupgrade

I did use a tempate

[iCatch it]

Thanks everyone.

I will change some of my content. The reason why some of it is very simular is because I wanted my website to get up and running a.s.a.p so put some stuff on my website why i thought of other stuff i may want to put on there, if that makes any sense.

[ElectroGirl]

Originally Posted by iCatch it

I will change some of my content. The reason why some of it is very simular is because I wanted my website to get up and running a.s.a.p

I've had this conversation with another eXceem member recently. So I will say the same thing to you.

iCatch it, all of us want to have our websites up and running asap, but ripping off someone's content and sentence structure isn't the way to go. There is no excuse for copy and pasting chunks of other peoples hard work.

How would you feel if you were in his shoes? ...I would be angry, wouldn't you?

[iCatch it]

I have now changed some of the content of my website and will keep doing so.

Thanks

[mattyb]

Originally Posted by iCatch it

Thanks everyone.

I will change some of my content. The reason why some of it is very simular is because I wanted my website to get up and running a.s.a.p so put some stuff on my website why i thought of other stuff i may want to put on there, if that makes any sense.

I'm afraid this excuse doesn't wash to me. It's not actually doing any good getting a site up and raunning asap with someone else's content because the search engines penalise you. So you're probably better off waiting and writing original content rather than rushing it and incurring Electrogirls wrath

[ElectroGirl]

Originally Posted by mattyb

you're probably better off waiting and writing original content rather than rushing it and incurring Electrogirls wrath

Hey! What can I say? It's pretty annoying when people ask you to look at their site and review it, when they copied and pasted most of it...

[mattyb]

Originally Posted by ElectroGirl

Hey! What can I say? It's pretty annoying when people ask you to look at their site and review it, when they copied and pasted most of it...

Totally agree with you.

[iCatch it]

Sorry to everyone. I've taken into account that what i had done was wrong, i wont do it again.

[the joker]

good luck for your website ... and remember if you copy a website you'll get banned from search engine so you'll not get a lot of hits ... enjoy your work !

[iCatch it]

Im very sorry to everyone especially iMoose. But thanks everyone for giving me advice on what and what not to do.

Thanks

[SgtM]

Your explanation table looks surprisingly like Furbs..
his: Get a free PS3, free Wii, free iPods, free DSi & much more!
yours: http://icatchit.webs.com/table.jpg

[Harvez]

same idea dif content nowt wrong with that, people copy each others ideas all the time its when they just get lazy and copy the whole content and not bother trying to make it there own work.