In Need of Constructive Criticism

[SergeantJoe]

I've been working on and off on this site for a few months. I have a decent amount of content on it (still adding more) and I'm fairly happy with the design. The site is:

http://www.YourPokerSource.net

I haven't done any advertising, as I wanted to get the site to a point where I have a fair amount of content and reason for visitors to sign up. I'm wondering what you guys think. Am I ready for advertising? Is the design good enough?

Also, I'd like to know if my landing pages for the poker room reviews are any good.

Thanks for any help you're willing to give me!

[ThePokerBank]

I really like the site, nice job. If I was going to make any changes...

1] Not a big fan of the font that you have used. I would go for something a little clearer, like Arial or Verdana. If you want to have a similar font, I think that Tahoma is in the same sort of style as the one you have now, but it is easier to read. In general, I would try and avoid Times New Roman.

2] I would prefer to have the links change colour or underline when I hover over them. When the font changes size it can make paragraphs jump around a little, and I just don't think it is as user-friendly as a change of colour would be.

3] The site is shifted slightly to the left. Not sure why, but I would centre it.

4] Instead of pointing your sidebar room links to the poker sites, I would send them to the review pages first.

5] It would be nice to take out the FT banner thing in the side bar and replace it with some more navigation to make it easier to move around the pages. It's not a big issue, but having a top navbar alone makes me feel a little constricted. Give the user some more freedom to see whats on offer and browse through pages with some sidebar navigation.

6] I like your review pages.


Overall, I really like the site. I think you may have a bit of trouble in getting visitors from search engines because you have gone for the popular 'general strategy and room reviews' type of site, which is what a lot of other sites do, including some large ones.

I hope that it goes really well for you, but if it doesn't then I wouldn't give up, you have a good approach to making sites. If you decide to make another site, take everything you have learnt and repeat the same process as you have done for making this site, but instead focus on a niche.

But yeah, good job on the site, and keep working in the same direction.

[SergeantJoe]

Thank you so much for the comments. I've changed the font around and did a few of the other little things you've mentioned.

http://www.yourpokersource.net

Do you think I'm ready to start advertising?

[newjabber]

i would really loose the FTP widget, it just dosent do the site any justice. The rest looks very nice and clean!

[SunPoker.com]

I think you should center the site. Right now it is more to the left of my screen rather than right in the middle.

Mark

[JohnH]

overall i think it's good. The link at the bottom of the full tilt review is doing something funny when i hover over it. I would say fix the usability issues like the links jumbling up when you hover over them.

[Arcadie]

Please please please get a new web host. a lot of people will simply leave when it takes over 8 seconds to load the page when they are on Verizon FiOS

[PokerDapyx]

Nice website!

Here are the things that I would do if I were you:

- first of all center the page in the middle, right now it's a little bit in the left..

- take care of "Under Construction" pages like this one: http://www.yourpokersource.net/poker-cheats.htm

After that you can start promoting it. Anyway nice job!

[psss]

I like the design. It's nice and crisp. You could use some more content, but it's good other that.

[SergeantJoe]

New site design!

I'd love to hear what you guys think. Right now it's still in development, so all the links might not work correctly.