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JonO

Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Posts: 119
Location: South Birmingham

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 9:49 am Post subject:
I think the first one looks best as well !

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28138
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 10:00 am Post subject:

Bernie66 wrote:

Do google ad's make you money if someone clicks onto them from this site or do they have to sell something after being clicked onto from this site?

It is the click alone that makes the money. Ranges from about 4c a click upwards.

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 11:47 am Post subject:
Another vote here for the first one

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28138
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 11:48 am Post subject:
Well in that case I think I will simply go for it Front page may look a little messy whislt I do the tidying up, but I think it will be btter than we have.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 12:25 pm Post subject:
Not looking bad. The cake article has vanished from the front page though.

selfsufficientish

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 364
Location: Bristol

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 12:36 pm Post subject:

fitting google ads in is a bane of my life

We ended up with them at the bottom of the page on the front page simply because they had to go somewhere. I guess I should think about removing them.

The new front page is better in the respect that you have access to more articles on the front page now although I just wonder if the pictures are just a little bit too small to have any use.

I am sure I have seen a site with a slightly similar format somewhere

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45462
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 12:42 pm Post subject:

selfsufficientish wrote:

I am sure I have seen a site with a slightly similar format somewhere

It does bear a slight similarity now you mention it, although the inspiration for the redesign came from another totally different site. Hopefully by the time it's finished they'll be very different to each other.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28138
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 12:44 pm Post subject:

selfsufficientish wrote:

fitting google ads in is a bane of my life

Believe it or not, whilst I can now see what you mean, it came from this thread:

https://forum.downsizer.net/about3400.html

selfsufficientish

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 364
Location: Bristol

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 12:51 pm Post subject:

Ours is still due for a bit of a revamp now that we have too many articles. Difficult to come up with a workable alternative especially (as we both do) if you have a site that people like. If it ain't broke don't fix it springs to mind regarding my site.

I did not like the look of the site that you have been inspired from, too much on the page it looks too 'busy'. But I do think that having two columns either side with links and a 'main' bit in the middle works pretty well (i think).

To let you into a secret I was actualy inspired by this site https://gurn.net/

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45462
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 12:52 pm Post subject:
But yours looks nothing like it

selfsufficientish

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 364
Location: Bristol

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 1:02 pm Post subject:
Er, fair point. Just the idea to have a three column layout I meant, with the main articles in the middle. As I was totally new to any kind of webstuff (not even much of a surfer) when the site was first set up there were some god awful layouts untill the present one was decided on.

twoscoops

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 1924
Location: Warwickshire

Posted: Wed Apr 20, 05 1:11 pm Post subject:
Definitly the first one. looksreally good.

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 05 6:31 pm Post subject:
I like the first one too.

Gertie

Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 1638
Location: Yorkshire

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 05 6:30 am Post subject:
Give a choice, I also prefer the first one, Jema.

jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 28138
Location: escaped from Swindon

Posted: Fri Apr 22, 05 6:41 am Post subject:

Gertie wrote:

Give a choice, I also prefer the first one, Jema.

All done dusted, improved apon and appreciated

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