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mafunk
Cheesy Family Forum - Please Review
  • 2003/12/22 20:01

  • mafunk

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 7

  • Since: 2003/12/15


I built this site as a Christmas gift to family members. It is my first XOOPS powered site. It's got a super cheesey, low-tech intro that I plan on removing after the holidays.

This is what I would like to know:
1) How long did it take the "intro" to load for you - or did you just skip it?
2) Once you got in to the main site, what was your first impression? (pretend like you are a freind or family member who just received a christmas card inviting you to join this site) Cute - stupid - boring - interesting?
3) FYI the site is called funkycrawdad because funk is our last name.

Cheers,
MaFunk

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Herko
Re: Cheesy Family Forum - Please Review
  • 2003/12/22 20:23

  • Herko

  • XOOPS is my life!

  • Posts: 4238

  • Since: 2002/2/4 1


Ehrm... would you be so kind as to provide us with a link to the site?

Herko

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tom
Re: Cheesy Family Forum - Please Review
  • 2003/12/22 20:45

  • tom

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 1359

  • Since: 2002/9/21


Heres the link Herko:

http://funkycrawdad.com

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pstrasma
Re: Cheesy Family Forum - Please Review
  • 2003/12/23 6:23

  • pstrasma

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 24

  • Since: 2003/12/23


I've just finished building my first site as well. Congratulations!

I especially like the take the tour, posting tutorial, and FAQ selection. With your permission, I'd like to borrow some of that content.

The intro, while cute, does seem a bit slow. It took about 15 seconds and then began to cycle. It also was not clear to me that I could only click on the text link to proceed.

As for the forums, I would suggest that fewer forums would help encourage posting initiatlly. Many newer users visit 1 or 2 forums on occasion. So a few very active forums is preferable to 10+ seldom used ones. If you have the traffic, it is always easy to start new branches. And how about genealogy? That's always good for a few in the family.

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inferno
Re: Cheesy Family Forum - Please Review
  • 2003/12/23 9:41

  • inferno

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 28

  • Since: 2003/12/13


good gift for the family.
the tour's great

and now we come to the intro.
firstly make a coooooooooookie so that you don't have to see it every time you come to the site and make the picture a link as well.


tour:

Quote:
We want to here from you so post like a fiend


Hear

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mafunk
Re: Cheesy Family Forum - Please Review
  • 2003/12/23 17:47

  • mafunk

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 7

  • Since: 2003/12/15


Thanks for the comments.

I've fixed the error in the tour and removed the intro.

I know that I should give the site less forums, but I'm having such a hard time cutting any of them out. We'll see. . .

Feel free to use my FAQs and Tour. The tour was my own idea. Some of the faqs were my own and some were from the faqs of phpbb.

Cheers,
MaFunk

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inferno
Re: Cheesy Family Forum - Please Review
  • 2003/12/23 19:48

  • inferno

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 28

  • Since: 2003/12/13


no more intro, mmmmmmmmmm...

sorry to be a nag but the error is still in the static tour

--edit--

oh yeah, and nice system for the poll thing but...

Something is fishbut I'm not sure what it is


I think it's that trout i lost

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mafunk
Re: Cheesy Family Forum - Please Review
  • 2003/12/23 19:56

  • mafunk

  • Just popping in

  • Posts: 7

  • Since: 2003/12/15


Thanks - I'll fix the error in the static tour.

As far as something being "fish", a couple of other typos in the poll, and an error in the heading "friendlidliest" - I can't seem to fix those. Every time I go in to make the correction the system says "database succesfully updated" but the updates never show!

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