Comments on: Where’s the Content?

By: Luca Conti

Luca Conti — Sun, 01 May 2005 17:37:43 +0000

I completely agree with You, Darren: a blog like this has no future in my opinion. Too many ads, like some of yours ;)

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:37:37 +0000

You might choose some other color than yellow, it’s very hard to read.
Thanks for the information,
tom

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:54:40 +0000

These sites tend to be incredibly annoying and in view, really break the cardinal sin of too much text on a page. Especially when it’s bunched up.

I was worried that maybe I was putting too many ads on my site but that one i just ridiculous.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:46:02 +0000

Interesting that this is the mob who only pay their bloggers 40% if I recall one of your earlier posts? I suppose with so many ads scaring away the punters they’ve only got their bloggers left to take from.

By: Rob Lewis

Rob Lewis — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:26:04 +0000

It seems their feeds do have the full text of the entries (as well as some “related” links), although who knows what their feeds will look like once they get their hands on Google RSS ads :>/

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:00:21 +0000

I know it’s possible to move things around with CSS, so that the content in the example site could still be at, or near the top, of the source code – but having too much clutter on the page can reduce your search engine visibility.

Having just peeked at their source, if I were a spider :) I think I’d have a pretty hard time finding their content, after all that hex-code stuff! The content should be as close to the top of the source as well as being visible on the web page itself. I’d get pretty irritated with this kind of site.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:04:00 +0000

Good stuff – there’s a thing in Jakob Neilson’s books about categorising screenspace by shading over the screenshot in different colours for different types of things, e.g. content, navigation, advertising, whitespace… guess it’d be a single-colour page in this case.

If you liked the content but couldn’t stand the layout/design, would you still visit the site, or would you subscribe to the feed – or do you always just subscribe?