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need help decide about my site's home page

by fellowgeek
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Hello warriors,

I am running a technology and science blog for a year now. I have two pages that can be used as my site's main homepage, I'd love yo get your input on which one is the best for my homepage (design and user-friendliness wise) based on your experience.

At the moment the site uses the simple homepage at fellowgeek.com but if you click on the site logo you will see the alliterative home page.

Thanks
#decide #home #page #site
  • Profile picture of the author alixwijaya
    Dear fellowgeek,
    I think your homepage too much article in home,
    Just put 5 of 7 article, I mean that loading web easily and quickly when a user visits your site.

    Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author sascrotch123
      Personally i like the page with the slider, but it talkes too long to load is my issue with it. If you could speed up the load time somehow, the alternative would be my pick

      J.D.
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    • Profile picture of the author Linkie
      Originally Posted by alixwijaya View Post

      Dear fellowgeek,
      I think your homepage too much article in home,
      Just put 5 of 7 article, I mean that loading web easily and quickly when a user visits your site.

      Thanks.
      indeed...
      don't put too many article in your homepage..
      the loading time will kill your visitor...
      and don't forget to use an elegant color combination.
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  • Profile picture of the author shantanu
    The alternative page is looking much better than ur first homepage coz it got a big cover on its homepage with news try to include slideshow also sumtimes looks much profesional.
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  • Profile picture of the author fellowgeek
    Thank you guys, I hope I get more responses.
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  • Profile picture of the author copynight
    Congrats on the site. Well done. I could see it getting huge. Fellow Geek... Catchy.

    I agree that the slider page loads a little slow, but I don't prefer it anyway.

    If I had a kick butt site going like fellowgeek, I'd forget about a slider, but try to add something at the top of the articles similar to techcrunch to grab more immediate attention.

    Good Luck
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    • Profile picture of the author fellowgeek
      Originally Posted by copynight View Post

      Congrats on the site. Well done. I could see it getting huge. Fellow Geek... Catchy.

      I agree that the slider page loads a little slow, but I don't prefer it anyway.

      If I had a kick butt site going like fellowgeek, I'd forget about a slider, but try to add something at the top of the articles similar to techcrunch to grab more immediate attention.

      Good Luck
      Thanks, it is a good idea, I will try to implement something like what techcrunch has to feature weekly popular articles on top for more attention.

      Tthe site has been up for a year but I don't get enough traffic. on average I get 400-500 uniques per day and still loosing money on I hope it will change eventually.

      I wrote myown CMS so it is really easy for me to change everything in the site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Absolute Logo
    Hey man really cool website! Looks like it has some great information there. I like both of the layouts to be honest. Simple and clean just what I like.. I do however prefer this layout more as it looks more elegant.. geek journal - your daily source for geek news.
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  • Profile picture of the author SoCalMarketing
    Kudos on your site.. I actually like the alternative page better, the one with the slider. It seems a lot "friendlier" for some reason.
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  • Profile picture of the author alwin
    There is something which i don't like on the alternative page, the main home page is more clean and friendly for me.

    Only issue is the too many articles, reduce the article number on the main home page and include a full width header(slideshow) and you will be just fine!
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  • Profile picture of the author ili
    Overall the slider page is better. Site looks like a more established site rather than a straight up blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author fellowgeek
    Thanks for the input, I am going to try and reduce the number of articles in homepage and add a widget that shows featured articles.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    @Linkie,
    STOP spamming the forum with nonsense posts!
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  • Profile picture of the author nightshade877
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    • Profile picture of the author fellowgeek
      I have not changed the homepage yet because for some reason the slideshow JavaScript on the other homepage version slows thing down.

      I am actually looking at slashgear design and layout and want to implement some of that into the new homepage.

      but I added a new section to the site called GEEK GEAR which is an Amazon affiliate product page for geek audience.

      So a change in the homepage is coming soon, thanks for all the guidance.
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  • Profile picture of the author blogfreakz
    The slideshow JavaScript in your alternative homepage really makes the site better than the other, however the loading time is slow. I hope you can find solution for this. Good luck!
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