I told you sometime ago about “My feed back on a social networking web site for having success as a business professional – succesul.ro“. Now it’s time to see what, of my feed-back, has been already implemented.
Copywriting
1. (solved!) There is a duplicate link for the “Register” link:
You should have a link for login, another one for registration;
2. (solved!) There are some texts in Polish (I think) – see the <title> tag and the header, which both say:
“Succesul.ro – Twoja droga do sukcesu”;
3. (solved!) A lot of the graphics on the homepage are not translated into Romanian;
4. (solved!) This text:
“Grupul încă nu a fost creat – poÅ£i să fii primul!”
makes little sense in Romanian; it should be something like:
“Nu există încă niciun grup; poÈ›i crea tu primul grup”;
5. (solved!) Rather than saying:
“Pagina principală”,
most Romanians use:
“Acasă” or even “Home”;
6. (solved!) Rather than saying:
“Proiectul ÅŸi execuÅ£ia: Human Technology”
it’s best to say:
“Site realizat de”;
7. (NOT solved!) You say:
“Persoane”;
I would use a more personal touch and either use:
“Membri”
or say:
“Membrii comunității”;
8. (solved!) You should update your copyright specification to include 2010:
“© Toate drepturile rezervate – Succesul.ro 2009”;
9. (solved!) You define yourself as this:
“Succesul.ro este un portal de socializare”;
In my opinion, portals tend to list information or products (so, they will list best pages, top new, hot products); instead you have a portal with people; that’s not a great advertisement;
I’d change this into:
“site de socializare”;
10. (solved!) You have a very odd-looking empty line:
Design
+I like your use of the white spaces, it really creates a lot of room for my eyes to rest;
1. (solved!) In my opinion, the terms & conditions, the rules, the copyright notice and the “made by” notice should all be placed in the bottom of the page with a smaller and harder to notice text; right now they are all too visible;
2. (solved!) Regarding the graphic you use:
you prefer to use as a logo a graphic with a globe and some people; but they are all faded and they all lack specificity; I can’t really connect & bond with the globe and some unkown people; I’d look for solutions to give a more pleasant look; for example, Neogen lists the latest photos from its members, while Facebook lists on its homepage a world with specific locations and directions;
3. (NOT solved! ALSO, the “forgotten password” link leads nowhere) The register link is the same height as the link for forgotten password; this is bad design;
4. (solved!) You seem to have used a lot of colors for the homepage, I’d stick to a few colors and use them on the web site;
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
1. (NOT solved! – I might add this is not relevant right now) I would expect a social network to be present on other social networks, such as Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn;
2. (NOT solved!) All the pages have the same title:
“Succesul.ro – Twoja droga do sukcesu”;
really bad SEO implementation, this is a major error;
3. (NOT solved!) You have an empty robots.txt file;
4. (NOT solved!) Your sitemap.xml file contains errors;
5. (NOT solved!) Right now the homepage has two URLs: 1 and 2; I would redirect one to another if I were you; same goes for the other pages on your web site;
Structure of information
1. (I think I was wrong with this one) I don’t get it – how is it possible to have persons registered on your web site with no name specified? This must be an error;
2. (NOT solved!) On the homepage you have a link for login and a login box; why the two things on the same page?
3. (NOT solved!) The same goes for the register link, which is present two times on the homepage;
4. (NOT solved!) The links are not translated into Romanian:
http://succesul.ro/about-us
http://succesul.ro/sign-up
5. (NOT solved!) You don’t have a company blog, and that’s really bad;
6. (NOT solved!) You have a lot of group categories, yet no groups; if I were you, I wouldn’t show the categories which have zero groups;
Usability
1. (solved!) You have no search box on the web site;
2. (NOT solved!) I can’t subscribe to your newsletter since there is no newsletter;
3. (NOT solved!) If I visit the homepage, I should probably see persons who have a profile picture;
4. (NOT solved!) I would expect the homepage to show me top members of your community, right now it shows me random members;
The register box
1. (solved!) The texts make little sense; they’re full of grammar errors and are clearly not written by a Romanian;
2. (solved!) It has some texts in Polish: “pracowników”;
3. (NOT solved!) It gives me no actual reasons to register;
The contact page
+It’s good that you list a physical address in there;
1. (solved!) Why are all the information in Polish?
2. (NOT solved!) Why no phone numbers?
3. (NOT solved!) I would prefer to see on this page a list of persons whom I can contact;
4. (Partially solved!) How about putting on this page a list of staff members and their profile?
Next steps
What I would with the web site if I were you?
a. Hire a Romanian to translate the text on your web site;
b. (solved!) Translate the text in the graphics;
c. Use URLs in Romanian;
d. Fix the other problems on your web site I mentioned on my web site;
e. Test your web site.
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Bottom line: succesul.ro social networking web site may be a good inspiration for web designers and web developers.
In this blog post I will comment about <a href=”http://succesul.ro/” target=”_blank”>succesul.ro</a> web site and give some tips on improving the web site.<!–more–>
<h3>Copywriting</h3>
1. There is a duplicate link for the “Register” link:
<img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-443″ title=”01″ src=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/zzz-getseo/2010/08/01.png” alt=”” width=”280″ height=”47″ />
You should have a link for login, another one for registration;
2. There are some texts in Polish (I think) – see the <title> tag and the header, which both say:
“Succesul.ro – Twoja droga do sukcesu”;
3. A lot of the graphics on the homepage are not translated into Romanian;
4. This text:
“Grupul încă nu a fost creat – poÅ£i să fii primul!”
makes little sense in Romanian; it should be something like:
“Nu există încă niciun grup; poÈ›i crea tu primul grup”;
<a href=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/04.png”><img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-446″ title=”04″ src=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/zzz-getseo/2010/08/04.png” alt=”” width=”300″ height=”120″ /></a>
5. Rather than saying:
“Pagina principală”,
most Romanians use:
“Acasă” or even “Home”;
6. Rather than saying:
“Proiectul ÅŸi execuÅ£ia: Human Technology”
it’s best to say:
“Site realizat de”;
7. You say:
“Persoane”;
I would use a more personal touch and either use:
“Membri”
or say:
“Membrii comunității”;
8. You should update your copyright specification to include 2010:
“© Toate drepturile rezervate – Succesul.ro 2009”;
9. You define yourself as this:
“Succesul.ro este un portal de socializare”;
In my opinion, portals tend to list information or products (so, they will list best pages, top new, hot products); instead you have a portal with people; that’s not a great advertisement;
I’d change this into:
“site de socializare”;
10. You have a very odd-looking empty line:
<a href=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/06.png”><img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-447″ title=”06″ src=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/zzz-getseo/2010/08/06.png” alt=”” width=”321″ height=”84″ /></a>
<h3>Design</h3>
+I like your use of the white spaces, it really creates a lot of room for my eyes to rest;
<a href=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/02.png”><img class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-444″ title=”02″ src=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/zzz-getseo/2010/08/02-550×408.png” alt=”” width=”550″ height=”408″ /></a>
1. In my opinion, the terms & conditions, the rules, the copyright notice and the “made by” notice should all be placed in the bottom of the page with a smaller and harder to notice text; right now they are all too visible;
<a href=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/03.png”><img class=”alignnone size-medium wp-image-445″ title=”03″ src=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/zzz-getseo/2010/08/03-550×119.png” alt=”” width=”550″ height=”119″ /></a>
2. Regarding the graphic you use:
<a href=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/05.png”><img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-448″ title=”05″ src=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/zzz-getseo/2010/08/05.png” alt=”” width=”439″ height=”359″ /></a>
you prefer to use as a logo a graphic with a globe and some people; but they are all faded and they all lack specificity; I can’t really connect & bond with the globe and some unkown people; I’d look for solutions to give a more pleasant look; for example, <a href=”http://www.neogen.ro/” target=”_blank”>Neogen</a> lists the latest photos from its members, while <a href=”http://www.facebook.com/” target=”_blank”>Facebook</a> lists on its homepage a world with specific locations and directions;
3. The register link is the same height as the link for forgotten password; this is bad design;
4. You seem to have used a lot of colors for the homepage, I’d stick to a few colors and use them on the web site;
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
1. I would expect a social network to be present on other social networks, such as Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn;
2. All the pages have the same title:
“Succesul.ro – Twoja droga do sukcesu”;
really bad SEO implementation, this is a major error;
3. You have an empty <a href=”http://succesul.ro/robots.txt” target=”_blank”>robots.txt</a> file;
4. Your <a href=”http://succesul.ro/sitemap.xml” target=”_blank”>sitemap.xml</a> file contains errors;
5. Right now the homepage has two URLs: <a href=”http://succesul.ro/” target=”_blank”>1</a> and <a href=”http://www.succesul.ro/” target=”_blank”>2</a>; I would redirect one to another if I were you; same goes for the other pages on your web site;
<h3>Structure of information</h3>
1. I don’t get it – how is it possible to have persons registered on your web site with no name specified? This must be an error;
2. On the homepage you have a link for login and a login box; why the two things on the same page?
3. The same goes for the register link, which is present two times on the homepage;
4. The links are not translated into Romanian:
http://succesul.ro/about-us
http://succesul.ro/sign-up
5. You don’t have a company blog, and that’s really bad;
6. You have <a href=”http://succesul.ro/categories” target=”_blank”>a lot</a> of group categories, yet no groups; if I were you, I wouldn’t show the categories which have zero groups;
<h3>Usability</h3>
1. You have no search box on the web site;
2. I can’t subscribe to your newsletter since there is no newsletter;
3. If I visit the homepage, I should probably see persons who have a profile picture;
4. I would expect the homepage to show me top members of your community, right now it shows me random members;
<h3>The register box</h3>
<a href=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/07.png”><img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-449″ title=”07″ src=”https://olivian.ro/wp-content/uploads/zzz-getseo/2010/08/07.png” alt=”” width=”241″ height=”277″ /></a>
1. The texts make little sense; they’re full of grammar errors and are clearly not written by a Romanian;
2. It has some texts in Polish: “pracowników”;
3. It gives me no actual reasons to register;
<h3><a href=”http://www.succesul.ro/contacts” target=”_blank”>The contact page</a></h3>
+It’s good that you list a physical address in there;
1. Why are all the information in Polish?
2. Why no phone numbers?
3. I would prefer to see on this page a list of persons whom I can contact;
4. How about putting on this page a list of staff members and their profile?
<h3>Next steps</h3>
What I would with the web site if I were you?
a. Hire a Romanian to translate the text on your web site;
b. Translate the text in the graphics;
c. Use URLs in Romanian;
d. Fix the other problems on your web site I mentioned on my web site;
e. Test your web site.
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Bottom line: <a href=”http://succesul.ro/” target=”_blank”>succesul.ro</a> social networking web site may be a good inspiration for web designers and web developers.