Website Review and Suggestions

**vultren** · 04:07 AM

In order to follow the rules as specified in this thread

The URL is http://kingdomisland.com

1. Be specific with the feedback you want and need.

Looking for overall thoughts, coding errors, grammatical mistakes, and constructive criticism.

2. Nothing personal.

No problem. I can handle it! I dish it, I can take it.

3. Tell us your experience

Have plenty of experience. If there is an error, I would like to know about it as it's always nice to have another review the site.

4. Say Thank You

Thank you in advance!

5. Participate and review other websites
I'm a regular here on these boards, I have definitely reviewed others and will continue to do so in the future.

Overall, it's a website promoting my new game, Kingdom Island. The website is important. Needs to be fun, fast, of high quality, and attractive to kids. Specific comments on the CSS3 would be great too!

Thanks!

**Private-I** · 04-12-2012, 05:49 AM

looks very good, the graphics are nice. I don't have an iphone so I didn't download the game but it seems like a good idea.

**Rabbit12** · 05:12 PM

Looks good, nice color use and easy to read text. I would change the url extensions from kingdomisland.com/about.php to kingdomisland.com/about leaving off the php extensions on all your pages if possible.

**chrishirst** · 04-13-2012, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Rabbit12

Looks good, nice color use and easy to ready text. I would change the url extensions from kingdomisland.com/about.php to kingdomisland.com/about leaving of the php extensions on all your pages if possible.

Why????

And surely ..

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leaving of the php extensions on all your pages

Wouldn't that be exactly the same as the URIs already are??

And " kingdomisland.com/about.php" is a URI not a "page" it is the Internet address that a document can be found at.

**sunstring** · 04-16-2012, 05:08 PM

It's a cool website!

I think the site's look is dominated by the game characters/color/style which is logical. I just think it is maybe too simple and the game mojo doesn't necessarily come through..
I am no expert so i can't really pinpoint the issue but it seems very static..

Hope that helps.

Thanks!

**PaulW** · 09:37 PM

Overall comment, like the look and feel of the site. Fast to load, fast to render.

Major criticism - I assume this is a feature-rich game - all I gleaned from the site is that you can chat and play a few games at $1.99 - as a parent I'd be horrified at my brat running up huge bills for not much.

Secondly, you say this is aimed at kids - what measures are in place to protect them? Moderation?

Thirdly, drastically reword or drop the bit about the earlier game - at the moment you're telling people that you had something that got popular and couldn't cope - not a good message to go with launch of a new product!

Minor crit: proofread again - a few too many errors.

Good luck with this.

**vultren** · 04-17-2012, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by FokeBox

Nice website! I like its colors, images and layout! But I think that menu font size and title font size are quite big ... I would reduce it!

Thank you! The reason they are big is because is because of two reasons:

1. Kids. Easy to read, easy to click on.
2. I have a lot of mobile users. I personally hate "mobile" sites and always prefer to load the actual website. By having large buttons, it's visible and easy to navigate through with an iOS device.

Thanks for the comments, appreciated!

Quote:

Originally Posted by sunstring

It's a cool website!

I think the site's look is dominated by the game characters/color/style which is logical. I just think it is maybe too simple and the game mojo doesn't necessarily come through..
I am no expert so i can't really pinpoint the issue but it seems very static..

Hope that helps.

Thanks!

You could be right. Maybe more additions to the website will help that in the future. Something to consider. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by PaulW

Overall comment, like the look and feel of the site. Fast to load, fast to render.

Major criticism - I assume this is a feature-rich game - all I gleaned from the site is that you can chat and play a few games at $1.99 - as a parent I'd be horrified at my brat running up huge bills for not much.

Secondly, you say this is aimed at kids - what measures are in place to protect them? Moderation?

Thirdly, drastically reword or drop the bit about the earlier game - at the moment you're telling people that you had something that got popular and couldn't cope - not a good message to go with launch of a new product!

Minor crit: proofread again - a few too many errors.

Good luck with this.

It's actually $2.99. So I need to fix that too

Now the reason it's $2.99 is because of a few reasons. It's actually way cheaper than my competitors. The comp charges $7.95 or so A MONTH. No memberships, free lifetime play. It saves $80 in its first year compared to the competition.

Moderated, very heavily. Yes.

Also, I assume you are talking about the section under "more" and under "company"? That's a good idea. I'll probably drop that. I get a lot of questions but it isn't logical. Thanks!

Proof read, yes I will do that. I'm no copy expert, I do technical stuff. I did the best I can. Hopefully my demographics don't notice it, that would be bad!

Thanks for the comments!

**PaulW** · 04-17-2012, 07:21 PM

Okay, to hammer this: I thought the basic was free and then each game was $1.99 and I knew nothing of moderation - two huge selling points - one explained very badly and one not mentioned. You might consider taking a step back to the wireframe stage and lissting the copy to go on each page and the points it is to make. Even with just a few pages it can be worth it.

**vultren** · 04-18-2012, 01:22 AM

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Originally Posted by PaulW

Okay, to hammer this: I thought the basic was free and then each game was $1.99 and I knew nothing of moderation - two huge selling points - one explained very badly and one not mentioned. You might consider taking a step back to the wireframe stage and lissting the copy to go on each page and the points it is to make. Even with just a few pages it can be worth it.

What you precieved was actually correct, about 4 months ago. That was the original plan. I've been so focused on the game that I haven't had the time to update the website.

I'll be fixing that as well. Thank you!

**WebOutGateway** · 04-18-2012, 05:23 AM

two thumbs up for the design, really cute. But I'm just wondering if you have a free/lite version for kingdom island?

**vultren** · 04-25-2012, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by WebOutGateway

two thumbs up for the design, really cute. But I'm just wondering if you have a free/lite version for kingdom island?

Currently, I do not. Hopefully in the future.