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#42I don't expect to make money off this site, but I do hope to make some headway as my first true website... Let me know what you all think. Its a Drinking site which will one day bring all the drinking activities together hopefully.
Trying to upvote a game didn't do anything - the number didn't change, I didn't see any message telling me something went wrong - just nothing. At that point, I got bored and left.
Gotcha, Only logged in users can up vote. Don't want abuse of the system. Will have to display a message that says something like that,
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#43It seems like a fun idea, but it doesn't feel fun. I think the tag cloud is detrimental. It makes drinking feel like work. The logo doesn't appear in Safari, as was noted. Beyond that, this feels like you could have much more than drinking games on the site. There aren't enough drinking games to make a directory seem worthwhile unless you're adding some other features to the site to make it seem big.
I was asking my self the exact same question. Should I just put drinking games and move on or should I build up the site more. I don't know how much real type of advertising I can get with this site so I was thinking it might just be a waste of time to put more into the site. What do you think?
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#44I would change the text: "If you do decide to drink, DO NOT Drive. Drink Safely." to simply "Always drink responsibly." and have that section of the text be a link to a new page with a paragraph about drinking and driving. You also might include some external links on that page (MADD, AA, etc). It is more direct to use a command instead of a conditional and use a positive instead of a negative.
It is worth noting that "Always drink responsibly" is the alcohol industry's PSA slogan. It was almost certainly chosen because it contains "Always drink" as opposed to being effective. This is why you see it in industry supported ads instead of the MADD ads.
I completely agree that the message "Always drink responsibly" is focused on escaping legal problems while getting customers to drink more. That said, this site has exactly the same goals as the alcohol industry - to get their clients to drink more, and use this product in conjunction with that drinking. So, perhaps "Always drink responsibly" is actually what they want.
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#45It seems like a fun idea, but it doesn't feel fun. I think the tag cloud is detrimental. It makes drinking feel like work. The logo doesn't appear in Safari, as was noted. Beyond that, this feels like you could have much more than drinking games on the site. There aren't enough drinking games to make a directory seem worthwhile unless you're adding some other features to the site to make it seem big.
I was asking my self the exact same question. Should I just put drinking games and move on or should I build up the site more. I don't know how much real type of advertising I can get with this site so I was thinking it might just be a waste of time to put more into the site. What do you think?
Well, I'm guessing you'll be using this site, so just figure out what works! Off the top of my head I'd think of either putting drink recipes online, or letting people talk and tell stories about each game, making it a bit more social. But it's your site, so I'd figure just make it whatever you want and if you like it, other people will too.
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#46- Let users add photos/videos - Make design more fun, cheerful, drunken... - Maybe link to social networking sites
We are looking into it. The thought on this tho would be after we are finished building the site where you can put games, would we want to expand it or move on to another idea... Once all the problems and bugs have been fixed, do we stay and develop on it for another 3 or 4 months or do we move on?
I would move on... don't see too much future on this idea only, as fun as it is
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#47"We are here to provide a source of entertainment for any sort of drinking game/activity. We wanted to provide the best place to find any activity for drinking so feel free to look around and add a game/activity or two."
This is not as concise as it should be. Cut it down to like 7-8 words.
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#48I'd remove the need for a log-in to vote on games. Regardless of 'abuse', which should be relatively easy to monitor, if someone feels particularly passionate about up-voting, perhaps they should be able to express it.
Considering a large percentage of individuals who play such games are likely underage, who would want to log-in and, essentially, confess to their crime?
In my experience, sites like this which are 'cool content' driven depend heavily on equally 'cool' design. Perhaps consider design overhaul, find a friend good with web design?
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#49The "Drinking For.com" is only half visible in Safari. (Can only see top half of it).
thanks, will look into.
The background color of the logo is gray in IE6 and the Add Game page is messed up in IE6 also. Although, I can't blame you if you aren't planning to support IE6.
Also the OpenID button does not load in Opera 9 and slows down the loading of the rest of the form greatly.
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#50It's nice to see a fellow asp.net website. It also looks like you're using the mvc beta. Though, the site could use a designer.