Please review my site

[The Unknown]

Hello guys, my site is up @ http://www.itech7.com

I want you guys to review it and suggest changes.

[Faun]

its too slow and the about us at the extreme left ?

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

The theme kind of sucks. don't expect it to become as famous as Engadget.
Its a turn off for me.

CMS is either not good or not setup nicely for Success, if just for timepass/hobby then its a great site only.

[Kiran.dks]

You need to optimize your website! It's too slow to load. After waiting for around one minute, I had to close the tab just becoz it refuses to load. I am on dial-up internet but still it should have opened in that time!

[debsuvra]

Originally Posted by The Unknown

Hello guys, my site is up @ http://www.itech7.com

I want you guys to review it and suggest changes.

You are using Drupal and using the Litejazz theme from Roopletheme website. U can just start using Wordpress right now, it is easier from the others. But I also want to say Drupal is much more powerful CMS if used correctly. U can have some great modiications and make u site better if u know some CSS and PHP.

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by T159

its too slow and the about us at the extreme left ?

Where should I place about us ?

Originally Posted by a_k_s_h_a_y

The theme kind of sucks. don't expect it to become as famous as Engadget.
Its a turn off for me.

CMS is either not good or not setup nicely for Success, if just for timepass/hobby then its a great site only.

what is bad in that theme ?

Originally Posted by Kiran_tech_mania

You need to optimize your website! It's too slow to load. After waiting for around one minute, I had to close the tab just becoz it refuses to load. I am on dial-up internet but still it should have opened in that time!

well, you won't believe, two days ago, I had 205 visitors browsing my website!!
please check again. I have increased the no. of workers that lighttpd runs.

Originally Posted by debsuvra

You are using Drupal and using the Litejazz theme from Roopletheme website. U can just start using Wordpress right now, it is easier from the others. But I also want to say Drupal is much more powerful CMS if used correctly. U can have some great modiications and make u site better if u know some CSS and PHP.

I know PHP nicely but not much of CSS

[victor_rambo]

Man, what a big shot name for the site!

[Faun]

about looks good at extreme right

and the view topography is in shape of "L" for many users

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

Man, what a big shot name for the site!

Originally Posted by T159

about looks good at extreme right

and the view topography is in shape of "L" for many users

i will move about to the right.

what do you mean by topography and "shape of L " ?

[victor_rambo]

You should asked for this review later. Right now there isn't much content except for that template design and a few posts.

"Review" should just be a "reason" to get publicity for your site . People should have enough things to review and "get hooked to " on your site. I hope you get what I mean.

[dheeraj_kumar]

Where is ronak agarwal's site? You cant miss the about us page mate!!!

And seriously, it takes 1 minute to even LOCATE the server on a 2mbps broadband. I would change my service provider.

You have too many on "Bookmark/Search this post with:" after each post. You know when those are too many, when they are more prominent than the posts themselves.

Your Math Question FAILS. I could cast a vote while leaving the math question box empty. I just voted for toshiba.

The site's gradient background FAILS in firefox. Works with both Opera and IE.

[victor_rambo]

Our vision is to provide techie content.

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

You should asked for this review later. Right now there isn't much content except for that template design and a few posts.

"Review" should just be a "reason" to get publicity for your site . People should have enough things to review and "get hooked to " on your site. I hope you get what I mean.

it has some 22-23 articles daily increasing

[victor_rambo]

^hmmm...
Ok one more thing:
Ur websites URL is Itech7 but there is no "7" anywhere in your logo or tag line

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by dheeraj_kumar

Where is ronak agarwal's site? You cant miss the about us page mate!!!

And seriously, it takes 1 minute to even LOCATE the server on a 2mbps broadband. I would change my service provider.

You have too many on "Bookmark/Search this post with:" after each post. You know when those are too many, when they are more prominent than the posts themselves.

Your Math Question FAILS. I could cast a vote while leaving the math question box empty. I just voted for toshiba.

The site's gradient background FAILS in firefox. Works with both Opera and IE.

Argh.. He changed his username which lead to change of URL



Try to post a comment without entering the number in the Math Question

Originally Posted by rohan_shenoy

^hmmm...
Ok one more thing:
Ur websites URL is Itech7 but there is no "7" anywhere in your logo or tag line

actually the site's URL was to be itech.com but it wasn't available so I purchased this one.

[victor_rambo]

^but still you HAVE to put it in your logo or tagline. Your url is like your personal branding vehicle. So if you take it lightly, chances are that people too will take that lightly.

Remember, consistency is a major part in making an "impression" over the visitor.

[dheeraj_kumar]

^^ Right. Its not like an email ID, where if you dont get abc@gmail.com you can get abc72113@gmail.com and be happy with it. Your site's name is an important part of your identity on the web.

Try to post a comment without entering the number in the Math Question

What is the point? One could easily spam votes. Dont try to defend it. A weakness is a weakness.

No offence to you, but I really want to ask this - are you by any chance leeching anything from the digit forums? It seems too much a coincidence that ra_sriniketan asked a question about how to find out who accessed his computer last, or something like that, and its the main article in your site which was added today.

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

hey man your site is not setup really well.
i mean its not setup to attain huge success.

as a blog and normal site then its fine. its good.

you reach 1000 readers a ready. its a great thing for your current site.

since its drupal you can tweak it really. get good contents and compete with the biggies .... that's my whole idea. MAKE IT BIG>
but with current setup and theme etc just forget it dude. its just another millions of blog/site on the internet.

[victor_rambo]

And yeah, your current theme is not eyes-friendly.

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by dheeraj_kumar

^^ Right. Its not like an email ID, where if you dont get abc@gmail.com you can get abc72113@gmail.com and be happy with it. Your site's name is an important part of your identity on the web.



What is the point? One could easily spam votes. Dont try to defend it. A weakness is a weakness.

No offence to you, but I really want to ask this - are you by any chance leeching anything from the digit forums? It seems too much a coincidence that ra_sriniketan asked a question about how to find out who accessed his computer last, or something like that, and its the main article in your site which was added today.

I am not the poster of that article. Its my friend's friend.

[victor_rambo]

^Its does not matter to a visitors who posted that article. For the visitor, its posted by "itech7.com".

And get a different logo and favicon.

Also consider getting better content.

[blueshift]

Thats one huge bad header. Change the theme man!
The placement of ADs is bad and I don't advice to use the ADs when theirs no content.

[The Unknown]

I have changed some things....Please check it out.

[manas]

Just one suggestion.... Change the theme...

Thats the first thing you need to do...

[The Unknown]

Originally Posted by manas

Just one suggestion.... Change the theme...

Thats the first thing you need to do...

Even the Modern Office theme isn't good ???? Previously I had litejazz ; this time its Modern Office.

[victor_rambo]

Can you please point out the changes so that we can make it fast?

[mehulved]

Opera isn't supported by this site. Consider using Firefox

WTF. I am sure you will be loosing a lot of visitors after this.

[victor_rambo]

1. You have got a BIG header. your logo and your header are occupying almost half of the visitor's vision field.

2. There is no point in having 4 links to your RSS feed. If people really feel that they should subscribe, they WILL dig it out from that small footer.

3. The left menu is a complete waste of space. Put something better there.

4. The subheader links are totally confusing. I absolutely have no idea who 'Shanker Ganesh' is and don't care about it. So most visitors's wont. So again you lose a prominent and highly visible space on ur website. If he is someone really important, then u must position it properly.

5. See the below screehshots:

At 1024x768: http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...h_1024x786.jpg
At 800x600: http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...ch_800x600.jpg

At 1027x768, I have to scroll down the page to red the post.
At 800x600, I am not even aware if there is anything 'down there'

6. Plz plz plz change the theme. Its not good.

Will tell you more as I realize.

[Pathik]

Opera isn't supported by this site. Consider using Firefox

WTF!!!!

[victor_rambo]

And the most important thing you need to do is stop stealing content from other sites. Be aware of the copyrights. Here in India, nobody may bother, but over the net, you will have a hard time.

And yeah, please think of a better tag line, remember it not a must esp if it going to be "Technology magnified 7 times".

Content here on this site is licensed under Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 India

You yourself don't hold a valid license of the articles on your website, so you cannot sub-license it. If someone gets caught because of you, you too will have the lashings!