New Site, Looking for reviews & Ideas

[freekrai]

Ok, I just put up my new site: http://www.websitetraderz.info

And I thought I'd ask for reviews and ideas before publicly linking to it everywhere.

The site is a Web Site / Domain Name Auction site. Still not decided on what I am doing on the left side of the page, so any ideas are welcome.

[Kyle]

z... ouch :(

[Shawn]

Kyle is right.

[freekrai]

if the z... ouch was because of speed, you should know that the server just finished doing a 5 gig backup to the backup server.

Speed on that box is normally pretty good except during backup time.

Other than that, what was he right about?

[Kyle]

z in traderZZZZ is what i was referring to.

Honestly, websitetraders.info is available, why did you go with a Z?

[freekrai]

I actually own both domains.
Just hadn't decided which to go with.

[Kyle]

At the time of my last post, you did not own websitetraders.info....
So you obviously just registered it after my last post.

Which is good, you're taking our advice on the z issue.

Change the name.

[freekrai]

I hadn't completed the transaction at the time of the last post.

[freekrai]

now it's just a matter of the DNS records all changing around

[alien]

I think a little more colors would be great. :)

[freekrai]

DNS finally synched.
The site is now websitetraders.info, although websitetraderz.info still works for pointing to it.

[James]

You had the one with the Z before the one without :|
That just doesn't make sense.

With a Z in the domain name, that's 1 more character to type, it's harder for most people to type than other letters, and it just generally makes the website unprofessional looking and just kinda zuckz.

I think that the website could benifit from a more friendly design. This seems somewhat dull and techy.

[freekrai]

There was an idea for using the z instead of the s which did make sense, but since I've gotten so much criticism for that choice then I won't get into the reason for it.

I used that design because the site's sister site is quickpipe.com which has a similiar design.

I'm a developer more than a designer, I build the scripts which I use. When I build web sites, I usually go for laid back rather than flashy

[freekrai]

part of the reason included the fact that is already registered a websitetraders.com which goes no where but I wanted it to be slightly different and not as associated with a domain already registered

[intelliot]

Actually after thinking about it for a minute, the Z doesn't bother me because "strange" things often make sites stand out, make them memorable. Take for example slashdot, the name is kinda funky and IMHO that helped contribute to its success.

Since you took websitetraderz.info to avoid confusion with websitetraders.com, take websitetraderz.com if it is available.

[Kyle]

intelliot - Why is the name slashdot funky?

[LuckyShima]

intelliot - Why is the name slashdot funky?
On the topic of slashdot ... Fatboy Slim has released a new single called "slash dot dash" and as one blogger points out, it really sounds like an advertisement for slashdot, which is kind of ironic given that they apparently use an Atari and don't use email, and have most likely never heard of slashdot.

http://www.i4u.com/article1957.html

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/bsblog/archive/2004/08/09/21521.aspx

IMO the song is quite weak because of the tiresome repetition outlined by the blogger.

[intelliot]

intelliot - Why is the name slashdot funky?
try saying it out loud:

http://slashdot.org ->
http colon slash slash slash dot dot org

get it? :)

[Kyle]

I was under the impression that the name slashdot comes from dot slash.
I am no expert, but I'm no beginner either. Dot slash ./ is what you enter to run a binary in Unix. So if you had SomeScript.c, first you would compile it to make the binary, then you would type ./SomeScript to run it.

I always assumed slashdot came from that, simply the reverse of dotslash.

But who knows, this is just a guess. I just figured it made total sense for the Unix geeks and hackers who make up the slashdot.org staff.

[James]

http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml#sm150

[Kyle]

LOL. Thats funny. Thanks for the paste.

[intelliot]

Yep I guess they explain it better than I do.


I was under the impression that the name slashdot comes from dot slash.
I am no expert, but I'm no beginner either. Dot slash ./ is what you enter to run a binary in Unix. So if you had SomeScript.c, first you would compile it to make the binary, then you would type ./SomeScript to run it.
Not quite. dot slash is a path meaning to start in the current directory. Doesn't necessarily have anything to do with running a binary. Think about the meanings of:
/
./
../
I think it's entirely unrelated to slashdot's name. :)

[Kyle]

dot slash does have to do with running a binary. What you had to say is also true, regarding the path you are in.