Review : squidoo.com/sports-tourism

James Trotta · 03-18-2007, 07:46 AM

http://www.squidoo.com/sports-tourism/ - My first Squidoo lens. What do you think?

gigabyte · 03-18-2007, 11:01 PM

Your site looks great! Well balanced with good content, colors and images. I also like the little squid logo in the header.

nhebb · 03-19-2007, 01:27 AM

Looks nice. I would add more content, though, so it doesn't look like you put up the site just for the links. Here are some ideas:

- A top 10 sports cities list (I've seen these in the Sports section every year or two).
- A US cities section (which you have), a European section, and an Asian section.
- The last 10 cities to host the Olympics.
- The last 10 cities to host the Winter Olympics.
- Average NBA ticket price by city.
- Average NFL ticket price per city.
- Average [pick another sport] ticket price per city... and so on.

HTH.

webia · 03-19-2007, 08:52 AM

Thank god. A recent topic that is not actually locked.
Right now I am not at home where I have a 3 mb backbone. I am on a 512 kbps connection I think, and you website loads slow. Perhaps you should improve the sizes a little bit.

You have a nice artworked logo, a few buttons with nice colors, as for the rest, the website almost has now design. It looks to monotone.

I also would have expected from you a valid source, but nooooo, it has over 300 errors. My god, that is way to much. Even amateurs do better.

Did you try to use the whitespace concept in the design or it just turned out like this?

James Trotta · 03-19-2007, 10:04 AM

Do you guys even know what squidoo is? Thank you nhebb but you other people have to realize that all I can do is add content and links to squidoo. I can't redesign it.

webia · 03-19-2007, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by James Trotta

Do you guys even know what squidoo is?

Unfortunately, NO. I do not know what Squidoo is, but I will find out now. You should have said in the first post something about this, and that you cannot alter the design.

Just went for a few minutes to squidoo. The concept is ok, the content too. That "Making your own envelopes is easy." title interested me a bit.

Your lens is also quite interesting. I am a sports fan, but I do not really think I have encountered yet a site with the same purpose, so great job so far, and good luck with it.

dazw1 · 03-20-2007, 04:20 AM

Great logo, nice header, the site does look very 'linky' full of links, personally i think it just needs some more solid content, defining sections to draw the users attention

jmm123 · 03-20-2007, 07:34 AM

I suggest you add more content, but otherwise looks good. I noticed you did not have have any ratings so I gave you a positive rating to get you started. If you would like to visit my squido you can find it here: http://www.squidoo.com/online-paid-surveys-guide/

I am still working on mine too, and yes they are limitations to what you can do, but still I like squidoo's Lens concept.

lifeofegypt · 03-20-2007, 12:31 PM

I have a Squidoo page/lens too. I really just use Squidoo to get inbound links to my sites. How appealling it is to others is not my reason for adding content and links every week.

James Trotta · 03-21-2007, 08:30 AM

Nice one - gave you an awesometastic rating. I like how you have all that content - that is what I'll need to do.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmm123

I suggest you add more content, but otherwise looks good. I noticed you did not have have any ratings so I gave you a positive rating to get you started. If you would like to visit my squido you can find it here: http://www.squidoo.com/online-paid-surveys-guide/

I am still working on mine too, and yes they are limitations to what you can do, but still I like squidoo's Lens concept.

anandsoft · 03-21-2007, 11:04 AM

A well thought about site. Nice work. Congrats!

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