AXiSS Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 http://webaxiss.thathamkid.com I would like a critic of the general design, and if you don't feel like registering but want to LOOK at the control panel, use the credentials demo_user / demopass. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Very plain and boring. I don't understand what your website is supposed to do. And the input text boxes they hurt my eyes! I recommend changeing them to be plain white. Other than that it is really good! Keep it up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I don't even understand what it is? Some type of search engine that returns no results? Care to explain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXiSS Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 It is a search engine where users submi their site and choose the description, instead of a spider. Like a URL database, but geared like a search engine, or at least that is what my final goal is. It is still under construction, I need to add quite a bit, but I would like a critique on the design, not the functionality, right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBS103 Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 The error image when you get no results is taller than the little box with the type in. Need to see more before, really. Keep working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXiSS Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 I'm going to fix that error message problem right now.... and that is fixed. Any comments on the color scheme? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShogunWarrior Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 The overall design is quite nice, more function would improve it. PS: Your signature link doesn not work (not formatted properly). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXiSS Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 Sig link fixed. Anyway, I'd say at least half of the basic site content is yet to be made, including user profiles, site profiles, tools, and more. Right now the functionality is not great due to that missing and somewhat essential content, but I should have it done soon enough. Hopefully. :-\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 When you are about to submit a new link, you are asked to add a generated meta-tag on the page you are submitting - sorry to say this but i doubt anyone at all would bother to do that (even if it is just for a one time validation or whatever..) Other than that i like the overall looks, still i find some problems in believing that this would appeal to the mass-submitting you would need in order for it to be even close to a handy search tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXiSS Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 I'm relatively new to PHP, and this is my first major PHP project. So a lot of stuff I would like to do I can't quite accomplish yet. Which leaves the cheap and not so good thing you see right now... The Meta Tag is the best way I could think of to verify the submitee as owner or webmaster of the site. I'm trying to seperate myself from URL Databases, where anyone can just come and submit something, so I want to credit specific users to what they submit. As I figure out a profiles system, I hope to kind of form a community of webmasters, as well as other people. I also have quite a few features in mind users might find attractive, I just need to figure out the implementation of those features. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted March 14, 2007 Share Posted March 14, 2007 It is a search engine where users submit their site and choose the description, instead of a spider. This is completely crazy! If you become popular and have people submit there own descriptions of websites to your database, then all that it will return is the top websites with the matching keywords! How is this any better than the old (primate) google and other search engines? You are wasting your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXiSS Posted March 15, 2007 Author Share Posted March 15, 2007 Can you eleborate on that please? How will a user describing their site screw up the entire search process? I would say it gives more accurate descriptions of the site than what a spider can achieve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFilmGod Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Okay, I'll explain. The old google used to calculate page ranking by meta keywords. Your serach is the same exact thing. Webmasters put in keywords and depending on the most relevant keyword that search comes up. Its nothing good about that. It means that if you get popular, websites will only compete for the best keywords and optimize to that. As google and all other search engines have proved this, it is a horrible way to search for websites. I know you are trying to make it "webmaster submitted" but you have to understand that if you ever get millions of websites on your site, than only the top keyword optimized sites would be searched and found. So it simply becomes like the old google. I just don't like it. Try making the search something more than keyword based and I then I would like your site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trium918 Posted March 17, 2007 Share Posted March 17, 2007 Why not just use a web crawler? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXiSS Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 I don't know how to get/use a web crawler. I know the first thing I need is a much, much better search function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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