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Old 06-08-2006, 04:08 PM The new Employment Guide
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Please review the site as well as idea itself. The navigation is a little off, but rest of the site works

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Old 06-08-2006, 05:19 PM Re: The new Employment Guide
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The idea is interesting. It all depends on how you implement it. Is this going to be a gripe site, or a forecast site where people in various jobs givew their opinions on where they see their jobs headed? There's a world of difference between the two.

The site has a nice clean layout. It looks like your visitors will be able to quickly and easily get to what they want. I'm kind of torn between liking the navy square in the upper left hand side and thinking you should either change the color or simply delete the square altogether. I like the icons with the links, both in what you've chosen and that you've used them at all. It's just the right touch to spice up an otherwise text heavy site. I like your color choices. They give your site a business casual feel.

If I stumbled onto your site I'm not sure I could tell you what the name of it is. Press me for an answer and I'd say Choose The Career Of Your Dreams. I'd be wondering why you don't want me to become the new employemnt guide. Then I'd figure it was an ad. I'd move the site title to the top bar, to the right of the woman. You might want to consider highlighting "employment news" in the section on the left. I've missed it a few times now, including when I went to check the exact name to tell you this. Have a look at where the blue and grey "banner" meets the olive section. Just to the right you have a thin navy stripe that looks like it's extending down from the banner, or maybe from the upper left hand navy square.

Except for the site title the negatives are mainly nitpicking. Good job.
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Old 06-08-2006, 07:11 PM Re: The new Employment Guide
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Hey, an impressive site. I like it, colours work very well.

I also like the use of Coldfusion, although, judging by your screen name, you were hardly gonna use PHP.

The only thing I'd really change is mixing a few images into the main content. After you get below the header, it's all just text, text and more text which looks a bit overwhelming for lazy people like yours truly. Maby you could have some images along with the sub-headings? Just a thought.

Good luck!
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Old 06-09-2006, 06:50 AM Re: The new Employment Guide
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is that a template...cos ive seen a site similar to that elsewhere..but its a good site/template
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Old 06-09-2006, 10:29 AM Re: The new Employment Guide
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I think it is just a somewhat popular color pallette for business-y type sites. I like the colors - they work well together. The layout was nice - very pleasing. I agree with the comments about the name of the site - it is a bit confusing. I'm also confused by what the site is actually for. But it looks good! And I found it interesting to look through, even if I didn't know exactly what it was for.


... I didn't read all of your pages, but you misspelled overseas in your first paragraph on the main page.
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Old 06-09-2006, 11:58 AM Re: The new Employment Guide
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is that a template...cos ive seen a site similar to that elsewhere..but its a good site/template
I've used the TMs template as a base for this site. I liked the colors, and layout in general
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Old 06-09-2006, 12:36 PM Re: The new Employment Guide
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Ok, you're on the edge with Cold Fusion but you're using a tables-based layout ?
I used to code CF, I know it is capable of supporting CSS. Your users would appreciate the faster page load times and other benefits of CSS for your layout. Tables are for tabular data.. use them for that alone.

It's an Image-Ready code soup mess.. bleaahhh...
Put a DOCTYPE on it.
You're using EMBED for the Flash, that's going to cause problems with IE people. Use this method instead and save the hassles: http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/

Correct the spelling errors, that detracts from the professional appearance:
"Your career may be sent oversees" .. overSEES ?? If you're a slave master that word might work
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Old 06-09-2006, 01:54 PM Re: The new Employment Guide
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You're using EMBED for the Flash, that's going to cause problems with IE people. Use this method instead and save the hassles: http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/
I'm not sure where you found flash on my site, but overal I agree with your comments. Thanks for your review!
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Old 06-09-2006, 03:04 PM Re: The new Employment Guide
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Hmm.. I looked again..it's coming from your Sponsor at the bottom.
Sorry..guess you can't control that huh ?
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Old 08-11-2006, 03:45 PM Re: The new Employment Guide
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Coldfusion, interested in a link exchange with my new Jobs website MyBossLied.com - Job, Career and working life realities - my boss lied ?
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Old 08-15-2006, 02:45 PM Re: The new Employment Guide
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Coldfusion, interested in a link exchange with my new Jobs website MyBossLied.com - Job, Career and working life realities - my boss lied ?
I'm interested. PM me for more info
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Old 08-15-2006, 02:49 PM Re: The new Employment Guide
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looks nice ... lacks content .. what would be ur strategy to premote this website ?

I see u seem to have good seo ... how are u finding google page rank with this site?



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