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[matthew1234 Friend matthew1234Join date: July 2006Posts: 10Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#233627

Honestly, I appreciate any feedback I can get on my church’s site. Even if someone thinks it’s plain vanilla or just bland, I’d rather know than not know.

We’re working with an older template that doesn’t have all of the flashy features some of the new ones have, but it does the job well, and we see some pretty good traffic and comments. Even JA’s older templates are still great! Although, I would like to upgrade the template to a newer version at sometime. I just haven’t found one that quite suits the site yet. Some of the features I didn’t comment on before are the integration of the Google calendar (which was very easy, I have to admit) and Loudblog. Note that a portion of the page isn’t running on Joomla (the sermon page running Loudblog), this was a little tough to customize.

Anyway, I’m happy to just show up on the poll and get some more visitors, even if it comes in last place. 🙂 Really, if I weren’t partial to my church’s site, I’d vote on http://www.oregonsgolf.com. Excellent implementation there.

Thanks,
Matthew Keefe
http://www.gracecommunitybible.org

[mfcphil Friend mfcphilJoin date: September 2007Posts: 2866Downloads:3Uploads:218 Thanks: 211 Thanked: 388 times in 133 posts]

#233629

Matthew1234 have you put your site into Member Sites showcase thats the best way to gain feedback for your website.(which looks, very well put together, Well done.

Put in in the showcase so others can comment.

[bigrk Friend bigrkJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1425Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 39 Thanked: 45 times in 15 posts]

#233649

Matthew, Thanks for the almost vote on my site http://www.oregonsgolf.com. There is nothing wrong with your site as it is. The only thing that might help is maybe a picture or two here and there to help spice up the overall appeal. But from a content view you have done well. Like you said a newer template might help and it may also create more color to the site. The new Fagus template looks really sharp and could help or maybe wait for that perfect template that grabs you right away. The one thing that could give you a kick-start would be to add some news about members or special events with pictures sent to you from the church members. Try to create some involvement from the community and things should start to rock and roll. 😀

[instantinlaw Friend instantinlawJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1646Downloads:6Uploads:28 Thanks: 68 Thanked: 210 times in 62 posts]

#233660

Well I just voted, it was a hard choice and i’m not going to say who I voted for, but I will say that it is not easy to get a site to validate once you add stuff. 😉
Great Job! 😎

[coos Friend coosJoin date: March 2006Posts: 26Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#233667

Hi All – great to see that the poll is inspiring people to chat! 🙂

There was a rush on votes for Pulse Marketing because I have been talking to everyone I meet about the Poll!
That said, (despite their bias) I asked them to review all of the nominated web sites and vote for their favourite. I personally think they are all superb sites that reflect the very high-standard being produced today. I’m honoured to be part of it!

You will also notice that I updated my signature and spent some time (even just a small amount) in the forums helping others. It’s pretty shameless advertising and it seems to be working, but please let me know if it’s a ‘no-no’ 😮

I also added my site to the Site Showcase (which is how I ended up finding out about the Competition!) and I’m sure the formatting and images I used in my report helped to get a few more votes. (I’d like to think so anyway!)

Either way, JoomlArt uses these Competitions as a way to acknowledge people’s hard work as well as increase traffic to their site, so everyone – get out there, spread the word and get some votes in!

Best of luck 🙂

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#233732

the problem with joomla is that there are so many components and modules available, the sites tend to be over done and cluttered.

sometimes simplicity can actually provide a better experience for the site visitor

the template needs to compliment the type of site you have, be it corporate, informational, portal. ecommerce, social network, etc.

use the template that compliments your type of site.

It isn’t always about the “WOW FACTOR”. The wow factor can prevent the user from finding what your about by distracting the user from finding your message. When a visitor comes to your site the first time. you need to get your message across in a 10 second or less scan. Especially if the visitor enters from a search engine search result.

when judging these sites, one criteria should be “did the site get its message acrossed to me quickly”

as for the W3 validation, it isn’t generally going to happen with a joomla site, they are too complicated once you start adding components and modules, most of which don’t pass W3 themselves..

[Michael Casha Friend Michael CashaJoin date: September 2014Posts: 2561Downloads:1Uploads:32 Thanks: 41 Thanked: 119 times in 1 posts]

#233771

We’re just going to verify all of the votes, then award the prize.

[mfcphil Friend mfcphilJoin date: September 2007Posts: 2866Downloads:3Uploads:218 Thanks: 211 Thanked: 388 times in 133 posts]

#233981

I know its pretty obvious but Who won???

[rusty1001 Friend rusty1001Join date: May 2007Posts: 73Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#234001

Hi

I liked oregon, but is too late..

Does anyone know what tabbed module that is, on the right, on the oregan site that is?

thanks

[simon_marsh Friend simon_marshJoin date: November 2007Posts: 2Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#234014

<em>@rusty1001 33696 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi

I liked oregon, but is too late..

Does anyone know what tabbed module that is, on the right, on the oregan site that is?

thanks</blockquote>
Not entirely sure, but it looks like it could be Tabs & Slides from JoomlaWorks

http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,1046/Itemid,35/

:confused:

[mfcphil Friend mfcphilJoin date: September 2007Posts: 2866Downloads:3Uploads:218 Thanks: 211 Thanked: 388 times in 133 posts]

#234039

<em>@rusty1001 33696 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi

I liked oregon, but is too late..

Does anyone know what tabbed module that is, on the right, on the oregan site that is?

thanks</blockquote>

the site belongs to BigRk I’m sure if you ask him nicely he will let you know…..I voted for his golf site…was doing well in the voting for a while there.

[bigrk Friend bigrkJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1425Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 39 Thanked: 45 times in 15 posts]

#234046

<em>@rusty1001 33696 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi

I liked oregon, but is too late..

Does anyone know what tabbed module that is, on the right, on the oregan site that is?

thanks</blockquote>

It’s the JA-Tabs Module that comes with the JA-Teline Template. 🙂

[bigrk Friend bigrkJoin date: February 2007Posts: 1425Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 39 Thanked: 45 times in 15 posts]

#234049

<em>@mfcphil 33661 wrote:</em><blockquote>I know its pretty obvious but Who won???</blockquote>

I think a question was raised about how many votes appeared in one day for one site (about 20) and whether they were current users or all new users created in order to vote. So the verification I think was to check on that. I’m sure MiCCAs will do what he thinks is right.

[mavdes Friend mavdesJoin date: December 2007Posts: 21Downloads:2Uploads:0 Thanks: 3]

#234059

<em>@bigrk 33761 wrote:</em><blockquote>I think a question was raised about how many votes appeared in one day for one site (about 20) and whether they were current users or all new users created in order to vote. So the verification I think was to check on that. I’m sure MiCCAs will do what he thinks is right.</blockquote>
ok joomla is good but i face a real problem with languages that inverse the page such as arabic templates..

these some of sites i did..

http://www.jordanianvoice.com
http://www.fathaye7.com

[mfcphil Friend mfcphilJoin date: September 2007Posts: 2866Downloads:3Uploads:218 Thanks: 211 Thanked: 388 times in 133 posts]

#234130

Its not the winning it’s the taking part….ahhh the good old days. :((

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