News This Second

[Dylan]

Site URL: http://newsthissecond.co.uk/
Date Opened:March 2015
Review Type: Standard
Extra Notes:Older posts may be missing some images due to some data loss that occurred.

 

[Allenafaith]

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[Teg]

Generally, I'd knit pick on the overall layout and design of a site for a feedback post. But, given the type of site it is, I think touching base on grammar and spelling is very important. Reporting news is hard. It's even harder to have to write a news report (I use to work for a newspaper). That being said, when you have your own site where you report "News," you need to use good grammar, spelling, and punctuation at all times.

The first thing a user will see on your site is very important. Honestly, on first glance, I completely missed the logo and banner. The first thing I saw was an article titled "Russia say plane broke up in mid-air." While, in some cases, this is okay ... In most cases, it's not. It should say, "Russia says ...," or "Russians say ..." I did read through the actual article and it was a very informative and interesting read. I just would like for you to be aware that some of your work needs some editing. Make sure you proofread before you post. Also, you can try to use http://grammarly.com as a means of making sure your articles are written with correct grammar.

I'm not trying to discourage you by any means. I'm also not picking on you for the sake of doing so. With news related sites that could get a lot of potential readers, you want to make sure everything is sound.

I wish you the best of luck.

 

[Dylan]

Generally, I'd knit pick on the overall layout and design of a site for a feedback post. But, given the type of site it is, I think touching base on grammar and spelling is very important. Reporting news is hard. It's even harder to have to write a news report (I use to work for a newspaper). That being said, when you have your own site where you report "News," you need to use good grammar, spelling, and punctuation at all times.

The first thing a user will see on your site is very important. Honestly, on first glance, I completely missed the logo and banner. The first thing I saw was an article titled "Russia say plane broke up in mid-air." While, in some cases, this is okay ... In most cases, it's not. It should say, "Russia says ...," or "Russians say ..." I did read through the actual article and it was a very informative and interesting read. I just would like for you to be aware that some of your work needs some editing. Make sure you proofread before you post. Also, you can try to use http://grammarly.com as a means of making sure your articles are written with correct grammar.

I'm not trying to discourage you by any means. I'm also not picking on you for the sake of doing so. With news related sites that could get a lot of potential readers, you want to make sure everything is sound.

I wish you the best of luck.

Thanks for your feedback.
Firstly we are licensed to share some content such as the one you read - titled "Russia say plane broke up in mid-air."

We are not able to edit articles due to our contract but I will use the website you suggest when I post content.

 

[Teg]

Thanks for your feedback.
Firstly we are licensed to share some content such as the one you read - titled "Russia say plane broke up in mid-air."

We are not able to edit articles due to our contract but I will use the website you suggest when I post content.

Oh, WOW! That's insane. There is no way I'd sign a contract with anyone who wants me to put their articles on my site but won't let me edit them to make them more presentable. That's a bit out of the box there. I didn't realize that's what you guys were doing. Thanks for clarifying.

 

[Allenafaith]

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News This Second
Review by Allenafaith​

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First Impressions
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My first impressions were okay. I really didn't like how the front headline was so big. It will definitely be noticed either way so there's no point in it being so big. The logo should probably be bigger as well. I really like how you have a lot of articles to read on the front page. As you continue to scroll down, though, the page seems to get a little empty. Maybe you should add a few more articles to bottom half.
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Average

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Design Quality
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The overall look/feel is a little plain to me. Think you should look into making your theme a little different. Maybe you could add some kind of skin in the grey area on the pages so it doesn't look so plain. As I was saying above with the logo, it just doesn't stand out. I also think there should be a space between each word in "NEWSTHISSECOND" I found it a little strange that you have an area just for Apple in the header. I think you should look into changing that to "Technology" or something along those lines because there are other technology brands besides Apple. That section seems to be lacking articles anyways, so it could help get that section more articles. While I was browsing the site further, there are some broken images. I know you mentioned why they were messed up, but I think you should try to fix them if you are able to.
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Average

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Business Aspects
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Besides the issues I mentioned above, I think your website has a very professional feel. I also noticed the social media pages for the website. I think that is great that you're also using social media, that means you're willing to expand. The Twitter is very active, it seems to be more active than the actual website, though. I think you should try to make them equal in activity so it doesn't seem like you're focusing on one thing too much. I also noticed there was a Facebook page. The Facebook seems to not be getting enough activity. Like I was saying above, it's really important that you focus on all of the things equally even if that means maybe hiring separate people to run each social media page.
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Good

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Final Remarks​

I do think you have a great thing going here. I love the idea of having a new site, although, there are a lot of them out there now. I really hope you take my advice and especially work on getting both social media sites active and balance the activity out with the actual website. I wish you lots of luck in the future!​

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Your Score​

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[Dylan]

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News This Second
Review by Allenafaith​

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First Impressions
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My first impressions were okay. I really didn't like how the front headline was so big. It will definitely be noticed either way so there's no point in it being so big. The logo should probably be bigger as well. I really like how you have a lot of articles to read on the front page. As you continue to scroll down, though, the page seems to get a little empty. Maybe you should add a few more articles to bottom half.
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Average

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Design Quality
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The overall look/feel is a little plain to me. Think you should look into making your theme a little different. Maybe you could add some kind of skin in the grey area on the pages so it doesn't look so plain. As I was saying above with the logo, it just doesn't stand out. I also think there should be a space between each word in "NEWSTHISSECOND" I found it a little strange that you have an area just for Apple in the header. I think you should look into changing that to "Technology" or something along those lines because there are other technology brands besides Apple. That section seems to be lacking articles anyways, so it could help get that section more articles. While I was browsing the site further, there are some broken images. I know you mentioned why they were messed up, but I think you should try to fix them if you are able to.
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Average

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Business Aspects
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Besides the issues I mentioned above, I think your website has a very professional feel. I also noticed the social media pages for the website. I think that is great that you're also using social media, that means you're willing to expand. The Twitter is very active, it seems to be more active than the actual website, though. I think you should try to make them equal in activity so it doesn't seem like you're focusing on one thing too much. I also noticed there was a Facebook page. The Facebook seems to not be getting enough activity. Like I was saying above, it's really important that you focus on all of the things equally even if that means maybe hiring separate people to run each social media page.
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Good

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Final Remarks​

I do think you have a great thing going here. I love the idea of having a new site, although, there are a lot of them out there now. I really hope you take my advice and especially work on getting both social media sites active and balance the activity out with the actual website. I wish you lots of luck in the future!​

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Your Score​

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Thanks for the review and will have a look at all the points you raise when I am fully awake tomorrow.

Thanks 🙂

 

[Dylan]

Would love some feedback on our new theme !

 

[Allenafaith]

Would love some feedback on our new theme !

I LOVE your new theme! It's way more modern than the other one you had looked.
The page doesn't look like it's missing things at the bottom anymore, and you fixed the text sizes. Great job! 🙂

 

[Dylan]

Would love some feedback on our new theme !

I LOVE your new theme! It's way more modern than the other one you had looked.
The page doesn't look like it's missing things at the bottom anymore, and you fixed the text sizes. Great job! 🙂

Thanks 🙂

 

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[Dylan]

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Thanks Kino 😀 What do you think of the site ? 😉

 

[Kino]

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Thanks Kino 😀 What do you think of the site ? 😉

I'm a political science major, so anything with news in it always attracts me. I like your layout, content, and professional posts. Seems like you're doing everything right.

 

[Dylan]

Your just too nice 😀 :cheer: :great:

 

[Ash]

Not a huge fan of your theme to be honest. With news sites you should be using a magazine style layout as they are called for wordpress. This theme makes it hard to see all the latest news and requires you to have to scroll down. Have to say nice work on the logo though

 

[Dylan]

Not a huge fan of your theme to be honest. With news sites you should be using a magazine style layout as they are called for wordpress. This theme makes it hard to see all the latest news and requires you to have to scroll down. Have to say nice work on the logo though

Thanks for the feedback and I'm pleased to say that we have had a great response from everybody else on the theme.

Good luck with your forum and increasing the security on it after it got hacked.

 

[Ash]

Not a huge fan of your theme to be honest. With news sites you should be using a magazine style layout as they are called for wordpress. This theme makes it hard to see all the latest news and requires you to have to scroll down. Have to say nice work on the logo though

Thanks for the feedback and I'm pleased to say that we have had a great response from everybody else on the theme.

Good luck with your forum and increasing the security on it after it got hacked.

I feel like you can't seem to take a honest opinion about your forum and take it too seriously or as if it were a personal insult. Not sure why you're bringing in my forum, after all this is YOUR SITE review. And to clear things up my forum was not "hacked", someone got access to my account due to the 000webhost leaks.

 

[Dylan]

Not a huge fan of your theme to be honest. With news sites you should be using a magazine style layout as they are called for wordpress. This theme makes it hard to see all the latest news and requires you to have to scroll down. Have to say nice work on the logo though

Thanks for the feedback and I'm pleased to say that we have had a great response from everybody else on the theme.

Good luck with your forum and increasing the security on it after it got hacked.

I feel like you can't seem to take a honest opinion about your forum and take it too seriously or as if it were a personal insult. Not sure why you're bringing in my forum, after all this is YOUR SITE review. And to clear things up my forum was not "hacked", someone got access to my account due to the 000webhost leaks.

I didn't mean to offend you and I welcome all feedback. I even changed the website design based on the review.
I thank you for your criticism. 🙂

I was just wishing you the best of luck with it and not sure why you took it as an insult.

Also I believe it was 'hacked' as you stated on your forum "Hackers accessed our forum and deleted quite a lot of our content but I had a backup".

Hacked means "use a computer to gain unauthorized access to data in a system." which happend to your forum.

Best of luck 🙂

 

[Dylan]

NewsThisSecond

Site URL:http://newsthissecond.co.uk
Date Opened:April
Review Type: Standard Review
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Wait times are not in force because of Black Friday offer and I have a new theme so I thought I would request :great: 😛

 

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