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11-01-2011, 08:39 AM
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Hi all,
As World of Creatives has just gone live, i'd like to invite you all to check it out and hopefully join in.
Its a website design competition, could be a new design or something you've done in the past, all you do is submit your work, only for other designers to see it. At end of the season it'll go into a voting period where all the designers must vote each others design, only the ones that they like. Then, at the end of the voting period, the one with the most likes wins a large cash prize.
The idea is that the more people who enter, the larger the prize will be as it automatically increases.
More information can be found on the website, or if you have any questions, please post them here or contact me and i'll be happy to help.
Check it out; www.worldofcreatives.com
Look forward to your feedback.
thanks for moving the post.
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11-02-2011, 04:03 AM
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It is a very interesting idea that I wish you all the best with. A very pleasing design as well. But I am a bit sceptical about the length of the season - 3 months. To keep the audience engaged and drawn to the site, why not make it a monthly competition?
Also, I've read on the site, but didn't quite get who creates these competitions?
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11-02-2011, 08:54 AM
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What happens to all of the designs that are entered and not selected?
Good luck.
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11-02-2011, 10:21 AM
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Hey, thanks for the feedback.
@Artashes, I have been thinking about that, just not come to a final conclusion yet. And I create the competitions. Each 'competition' aka a season, once one is finished, the next one will start.
@thatjamie, at the moment, all the designs will not be viewable again. Only the winners entry will be viewable. Just to stop anyone from coming along and stealing the design from an old season. However, I have future proofed it so when the site picks up, there will be more than 1 winner.
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11-03-2011, 12:32 PM
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Anyone care to leave a review about how it looks / works? I've got a few things im going to work on to make the site better, just need some input as to where else I can improve it.
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11-03-2011, 03:48 PM
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I'll leave some comments later on this evening, I didn't know if that's what you wanted from this thread being in the announcements area but I'll have a look in-depth later and let you know what I think
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11-03-2011, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by creativejen
Anyone care to leave a review about how it looks / works? I've got a few things im going to work on to make the site better, just need some input as to where else I can improve it.
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It looks good. If you want to improve the site, focus on loading time. My connection is 25+mbps download and the site takes about 3 seconds to fully load. You can do the standard to improve this... - Move your jQuery/JavaScript/Plugins to the bottom. Just before </body> will do.
- Update your jQuery to the latest version
- Reduce HTTP requests... Combine .css/.js files so visitor browsers can better take advantage of caching.
- Reduce HTTP requests... Use more CSS sprites for images
- Add title text to your <a> links for SEO purposes
- Use full URIs instead of relative URIs for SEO purposes
- Redirect non-www to www ... or www to non-www (duplicate content, SEO)
- Remove <meta name="keywords"> ... It's useless/doesn't do anything
- Strip HTML whitespace, use GZIP
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11-04-2011, 10:44 AM
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Thanks for the feedback, I worked on some updates last night, added all the titles etc. I'm not really an seo person, but by full urls instead of relative, you mean instead of <a href="faq.php"> it should be <a href="http://www.....com/faq.php"> ?
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11-04-2011, 12:31 PM
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Originally Posted by creativejen
Thanks for the feedback, I worked on some updates last night, added all the titles etc. I'm not really an seo person, but by full urls instead of relative, you mean instead of <a href="faq.php"> it should be <a href="http://www.....com/faq.php"> ?
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Correct,
This will help search engines figure out whether you want your website to be:
Right now both sites work, which means you have duplicate content of each page at the www and non-www version of your site. This affects your website rankings in the search engines because different websites may link to you differently. You should pick either www or non-www and link to your site in a consistent manner. Then you should 301 redirect the domain you are not using to the one you are using.
You can accomplish the 301 redirect with an .htaccess snippet.
This code redirects http://www.worldofcreatives.com/ to http://worldofcreatives.com/
Code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
This code redirects http://worldofcreatives.com/ to http://www.worldofcreatives.com/
Code:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^worldofcreatives.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.worldofcreatives.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>
I know the www to non-www one works, because that's what I use .
This is important because right now you could potentially have DOUBLE pages in search engines: By using FULL URLs it eliminates the ambiguity. Clicking both those links above you'll see that all the links change relative to the website. Relative links wouldn't be as much of a problem if you 301 redirected one of the two domains. However, I would still recommend using full URLs regardless.
You can type: "site:worldofcreatives.com" to check the pages search engines have indexed. On Google, if you type "site:worldofcreatives.com" it'll usually ask you to register to Google Webmaster Tools. Definitely sign up to monitor ALL your websites. You can even tell Google if you want to use the non-www or www version of your website once signed up to Webmaster Tools.
Good luck. If you have questions, feel free to ask
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11-04-2011, 09:11 PM
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