- Let users add photos/videos
- Make design more fun, cheerful, drunken...
- Maybe link to social networking sites
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#32I appreciate the fact that there is a disclaimer about not drinking and driving. Perhaps one could further add a disclaimer that once one gets into the order of a dozen or more shots in a single night, one runs a risk of dying from alcohol poisoning, and that can happen with these kinds of "drinking games", so sort of a "proceed at your own risk" link might be appropriate and link to a medical article on the subject.
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#33My attention was drawn to the tag cloud first, and that made me confused as to what the site was about. Only later I noticed there was a description on the left. Personally I am also a bit skeptical of the usefulness of tag clouds. It seem to me they are mostly interesting to techie types who like to think about raw data. I would rather see some specific examples of recently hot drinking games from the site.
Totally agree. Featured games, plus (possibly) photos of college kids (your friends, i'd assume?) playing the featured games, possibly a video...
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#34- 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?
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#35Definitely an interesting idea. Here's a few things: - Iterate on the design: I'd start on the color scheme, since it's easy to get right. Resources: http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com/ - Random design tip: Please don't use a grey gradient on everything. It looks like everything has a layer of virtual dust on it. Try black or white, and then tweaking the transp…
All points taken and noted. Where did you see Grey Gradient? You talking about the voting system?
The DrinkingFor.com logo at the top and the bottles on the left side
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#36i like the idea to get creative ideas :-) a few suggestions: - i would not only display a tag-cloud on the homepage but also top games. - why do you need people to log in / "register". wouldn't a captcha also do the job of avoiding spam and make the log-in/providing personal data optional. i think it makes it more likely people would contribute - categories might could help people to navigate / provide contributers w…
Yeah, I second categories. I think there should be a few: top games, type of drink, by game type (movies, speeches, skill games, etc), size of group.
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#37It 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.
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#38I 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.
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#39I 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.
I think that no such message is necessary, period.
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#40My attention was drawn to the tag cloud first, and that made me confused as to what the site was about. Only later I noticed there was a description on the left. Personally I am also a bit skeptical of the usefulness of tag clouds. It seem to me they are mostly interesting to techie types who like to think about raw data. I would rather see some specific examples of recently hot drinking games from the site.
Totally agree. Featured games, plus (possibly) photos of college kids (your friends, i'd assume?) playing the featured games, possibly a video...
Maybe do something like a video service?