Opinion on Joketwist
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I like it... Other than the suggestion above, my ideas would be to expand it more 🙂
Your readers could become bored after a while on reading quick jokes. You want to keep them on for as long as possible, right?!
Maybe expand then...
Add a blog! Post daily site news and also more jokes. Add a video section, an image section, expand the site into a "jack of all jokes" type of website. 🙂
You're on the right road, though! Nice site! 🙂
Your readers could become bored after a while on reading quick jokes. You want to keep them on for as long as possible, right?!
Maybe expand then...
Add a blog! Post daily site news and also more jokes. Add a video section, an image section, expand the site into a "jack of all jokes" type of website. 🙂
You're on the right road, though! Nice site! 🙂
I can assure you it's a pretty unique idea, the domain goes very well with the entire concept of the website. Like the suggestions above, add more Jokes, maybe move the "Submit new Joke" link to the top of the page so it can be viewed much more easily. I myself didn't see it until I scrolled down.
Other than that, pretty nice website, good luck with it 🙂
Other than that, pretty nice website, good luck with it 🙂
Scotty123 said:
Thanks for your feedback. Its taking quite some time to upload jokes, we are aiming to have several hundred in each category and keep regularly adding to our database. We appreciate your visit and hope you come back to us when we have more jokes to offer 🙂
Scotty123 said:
Thanks for your feedback, this is definitely something we are very aware of. Obviously we are trying to encourage people to add their own content as much as possible. Of course it is not just jokes but facts, tales, riddles and more!
The website “Joke Twist” is literally a joke website. Unless I’m missing something, this is all I can tell on first glance. On exploration, I can’t find anything else otherwise, so I assume this is all.
Layout – This is pretty straightforward. There is a grey, teal and red color scheme that is carried throughout the site from the header to the footer. A consistent color scheme ties everything together and makes it uniform. This particular color scheme is easy on the eyes and pleasant.
A banner sits at the top of the page and under that is short but wide advertisement. It throws off the flow of the site (as many advertisements do) but it makes the text line under it “Submit a joke . . . Enter here” appear to be part of the advertisement. On my wide screen monitor, something seems off kilter, and I’m not sure what it is, though I think it might be the white space between the text line noted above and joke itself. Try to play around with the white space (if you wish to correct this) to see if you can make it smaller and more balanced or move the advertisement elsewhere if possible. It might be my computer, though, or it might be the size of the joke (it looks weirder with the longer jokes). Just don’t shrink the space too much.
Links – Because the overall website is smooth and clean, the default link design stands out. The ones at the bottom of the screen are awkward but not that bad, but the one at the top, “Submit your own jokes!” in the white box with black outline just doesn’t fit. It’s not that you can’t have a button or a line of text there . . . it just needs to be changed so it’s not bright blue underlined. If you find something good, make it consistent and bring it down to the links at the footer.
Content – I admit I have never seen the layout Author (Person’s Name) and am unable to say if this is a correct layout or not. It isn’t something I’m used to as an American, but I don’t know if this is acceptable in other countries. Normally, a person’s name directly follows the “-“ at the end . . . you know that dash indicates that it will be followed by the author’s name. So there is no need to write “Author” with the name in parentheses. Quote – Sean Quinn will do. You can even go so far as to write, Quote – Bob McBoberson, 17th Century Poet.
As far as the jokes go, very few of them are funny to me. I might not be your target audience though. Some of them are ones I’ve heard my mom’s friends say and others just fly over my head. Once or twice I got a chuckle out of them. I do like that you have quotes, though. The only problem with that I see is that some really aren’t funny. As in, they were not meant to be funny. So if you’re going for jokes, you’d probably want the more humorous quotes, whether they be slapstick, dark humor, etc. The breakup love quotes just don’t fit.
Buttons – The buttons that you press to get the jokes and select the categories are physically appealing in the sense that they all match the theme. Great. But the initial prompt is, “Hit twist, Go on we dare you 😉” Aside from this being grammatically incorrect (it’s a comma splice—there should be a period instead of a comma), it fails to say that you have to choose a category. Which after you hit twist a few times to no avail, it becomes apparent. But why is the site telling us that all we have to do is hit twist if it doesn’t work that way? Maybe the correct prompt should be, “Choose a category below and hit twist. Go on, we dare you 😉”
Overall, the site is simple and fairly easy to use (once you get past that misdirection). The colors flow well and it almost everything is visually appealing. Good luck.
Layout – This is pretty straightforward. There is a grey, teal and red color scheme that is carried throughout the site from the header to the footer. A consistent color scheme ties everything together and makes it uniform. This particular color scheme is easy on the eyes and pleasant.
A banner sits at the top of the page and under that is short but wide advertisement. It throws off the flow of the site (as many advertisements do) but it makes the text line under it “Submit a joke . . . Enter here” appear to be part of the advertisement. On my wide screen monitor, something seems off kilter, and I’m not sure what it is, though I think it might be the white space between the text line noted above and joke itself. Try to play around with the white space (if you wish to correct this) to see if you can make it smaller and more balanced or move the advertisement elsewhere if possible. It might be my computer, though, or it might be the size of the joke (it looks weirder with the longer jokes). Just don’t shrink the space too much.
Links – Because the overall website is smooth and clean, the default link design stands out. The ones at the bottom of the screen are awkward but not that bad, but the one at the top, “Submit your own jokes!” in the white box with black outline just doesn’t fit. It’s not that you can’t have a button or a line of text there . . . it just needs to be changed so it’s not bright blue underlined. If you find something good, make it consistent and bring it down to the links at the footer.
Content – I admit I have never seen the layout Author (Person’s Name) and am unable to say if this is a correct layout or not. It isn’t something I’m used to as an American, but I don’t know if this is acceptable in other countries. Normally, a person’s name directly follows the “-“ at the end . . . you know that dash indicates that it will be followed by the author’s name. So there is no need to write “Author” with the name in parentheses. Quote – Sean Quinn will do. You can even go so far as to write, Quote – Bob McBoberson, 17th Century Poet.
As far as the jokes go, very few of them are funny to me. I might not be your target audience though. Some of them are ones I’ve heard my mom’s friends say and others just fly over my head. Once or twice I got a chuckle out of them. I do like that you have quotes, though. The only problem with that I see is that some really aren’t funny. As in, they were not meant to be funny. So if you’re going for jokes, you’d probably want the more humorous quotes, whether they be slapstick, dark humor, etc. The breakup love quotes just don’t fit.
Buttons – The buttons that you press to get the jokes and select the categories are physically appealing in the sense that they all match the theme. Great. But the initial prompt is, “Hit twist, Go on we dare you 😉” Aside from this being grammatically incorrect (it’s a comma splice—there should be a period instead of a comma), it fails to say that you have to choose a category. Which after you hit twist a few times to no avail, it becomes apparent. But why is the site telling us that all we have to do is hit twist if it doesn’t work that way? Maybe the correct prompt should be, “Choose a category below and hit twist. Go on, we dare you 😉”
Overall, the site is simple and fairly easy to use (once you get past that misdirection). The colors flow well and it almost everything is visually appealing. Good luck.
Thanks very much for your very kind feedback, have made changes that you have suggested and regarding content this is an ongoing issue that we are looking to resolve, of course as the site is new it will take some time to get a large pool of quality content across each category.
Thanks again,
Joketwist Team
Thanks again,
Joketwist Team
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