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Review by Kino
First Impressions
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So my first impressions are pretty good. I like your style, the niche is very unique, and it just looks nice.
I don't know how you came up with the niche and at first glance I wasn't sure if I liked what you had going on. I thought to myself how the hell is this going to work. Then I thought about how I was going to tell you this might not work. But then I thought about originality and how a lot of my reviews tell people they lack original content. Man you hit this on the spot. So as a first impression, I'm super impressed.
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Excellent
Design Quality
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I love your design. It's plain and simple and exactly what a site like yours needs. Your banner is phenomenal and classy. It really fits your niche quite nicely. I'm super impressed.
There are just a few things I noticed that I think you could maybe work on to make your site look better.
- First, I love the big images that pop up for the "Featured Games" on the main page. It's great advertising and looks nice. However, the images are so blurry that it kind of dissuades me from wanting to click anywhere else because if the quality of the image is bad, maybe the quality of the game is bad too. Just something you could potentially fix.
- Second, I hovered over and checked out your sections at the top (Wallpapers, Timeline Covers, etc.). One picky thing I noticed is that in the "Wallpapers" pulldown everything is nice and capitalized, except for "Game wallpapers." I think you might have just missed this. Also, on the "Timeline Covers" pull-down you also forgot to capitalize "racing." Just a couple of things. Otherwise the spelling and everything else looks nice.
- Lastly, you have a lot of room in the blue banner at the bottom of the site where the "Contact Us", "Link Exchange", etc. lists are. I think you can really utilize this space with maybe a couple of graphics or simply just copy the background you have at the top behind your logo and put it there. It would add a little bit of depth to your site.
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Excellent
Business Aspects
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I think this is very important. I know a lot of websites try to remain ad-free and they do it successfully. Here you have a site that could really use some ads to generate some revenue for yourself. You have a real great domain name that I'm sure will pick up a good Google Page Rank very soon. Maybe in the banner space at the bottom you can throw in some Google Adsense stuff. Even if you want to be ad-free, the ads at the bottom might be able to really generate some small income for you and you could use that to expand your site, hire more staff, or pay for the business costs of maintaining your site.
Also, I would be careful with copyright issues. I don't know where you are getting these games, wallpapers, and covers from. If you aren't creating them yourself, then be sure to follow copyright rules on other's sites. If a site says you can't use the games or images, don't get yourself in trouble. Sites like this can be successful, but always get the "okay" from the original creator of whatever you're using. You wouldn't want someone using your creations without authorization right? Again, I am NOT accusing you of anything here. Just a general thought on the business aspect of a website here.
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Good
Final Remarks
You really have something nice here. You appeal to a younger crowd with all three of your focuses and I think that's good. The young people are the ones that use computers and can go on Google and find your site. You're off to an amazing start and I feel really bad that I couldn't find anything I didn't like. Keep up the great work.
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