Please review planets.net

**Adam Dicker** · 10-24-2007, 08:28 PM

Planets.net is the beta site for the high traffic domain planets.com that will soon find its home there.

The interactive features will be completed by friday,

Please give your feedback.

The site took 1 week to do.

Planets.net

Feedback is appreaciated.

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**tonyfloyd** · 10-24-2007, 08:41 PM

Adam.....real nice!! much better than what it used to be...

is that a script?

**TheLegendaryJP** · 10-24-2007, 08:45 PM

The lay out is full of choices and info yet easy to navigate, nicely done. The grey is a little too much though imo, try adding another color somewhere to give it a punch. JMO

**Gerry** · 10-24-2007, 08:46 PM

I'm impressed.

Who did this site? What programming used (Joomla, Drupal?)

Very clean and easy to navigate. Good color selection. Even looks nice on the crap monitors here at work.

I need something like this for 1776.net.

**Adam Dicker** · 10-24-2007, 08:49 PM

I gave up cms systems and i am building my own so I can put out quality content sites.

It's and integration of many scripts, but a template for many others I will whip out in the next 2 months.

All your feedback is appreaciated.

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**Gerry** · 10-24-2007, 09:03 PM

Originally Posted by DotComGod

I gave up cms systems and i am building my own so I can put out quality content sites.

That's what it is all about. If you have control of content then you can control the quality.

It's and integration of many scripts

Obviously you did put a tremendous amount of effort into this if you build it yourself. Hidden talents? Or painful effort.

, but a template for many others I will whip out in the next 2 months.

Possibly market your template?

All your feedback is appreaciated.

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feedback = use spell checker.

**Varchar** · 10-24-2007, 09:07 PM

Very nice!!! But should you put a question mark after Pluto?

Pluto is no longer classified as a planet. It is only an icy sphere.

**tonyfloyd** · 10-24-2007, 09:07 PM

and all this only took you 1 week??

**tekz999** · 10-24-2007, 09:28 PM

There is still no forum in http://planets.net/forum.htm
Will the PPC rate be higher in comparison to what planets.com is currently using?

**Relivo** · 10-24-2007, 09:52 PM

Looks great! Glad to see it is coming along. Plan on slapping vBulletin on there?

**Provider** · 10-25-2007, 01:29 AM

I like the content and especially pictures.

I think one of the audiences for this kind of site can be high-school students.
If I were you I would prepare different relevant sections for each grade, and
blast an email to all the high school teachers with the proposal to use this
site as a primary resource for the topic. I saw one site that sends emails to
all the k-17 teachers in USA for a fee.

Good luck!

**KMEDIA** · 10-25-2007, 02:13 AM

Overall I really like it. Easy to navigate, nice integration of Adsense, good colors for the theme and whats most important imo: it looks authoritative - especially with that domain

I would get rid of the flash header at the right hand (doesnt really serve a purpose imo). The transition doesnt look so smooth from your header bg img (http://planets.net/images/top_bg.gif) to the flash gradient bg.

I wish you good luck and Im sure it will become successful.

**MacyT.** · 10-25-2007, 04:19 AM

Originally Posted by TheLegendaryJP

The lay out is full of choices and info yet easy to navigate, nicely done. The grey is a little too much though imo, try adding another color somewhere to give it a punch. JMO

Exactly my thoughts too. Looks great but GREY was too much. Could be I've just been on the computer too long...but it was not easy on my eyes to read.

**Bender** · 10-25-2007, 06:21 AM

welll, I hate to be the only one with a slightly negative comment, but the color scheme used could be a little better.and using <table>'s in design is . to use an cliche, so 1990's.

This is a site in the same area my company did quite a while ago :
http://www.mysolarsystem.com

I don't intend this as a shameless self-promotion -mods, please feel free to remove the URL if you think that's the case- but a simple "what else is out there and how they do they do it" type of thing.

**Adam Dicker** · 10-25-2007, 09:22 AM

Excellent feedback,

A few questions:

Not being a designer how should the site be done without tables?
The main grey will be changed with black.

Provider, If you know the site that does the mailing I will gladly do that.

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**KMEDIA** · 10-25-2007, 09:28 AM

I would recommend you to use CSS and div tags instead.

**Bender** · 10-25-2007, 09:35 AM

Originally Posted by DotComGod

Not being a designer how should the site be done without tables?
The main grey will be changed with black.
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take a look at this free resource:
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/css-templates/

**Adam Dicker** · 10-25-2007, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by KMEDIA

I would recommend you to use CSS and div tags instead.

Changing to CSS and div tags as suggested.

Thanks,

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**gawnd** · 10-25-2007, 10:31 AM

I'd also strongly recommend using dynamic page titles like "Mercury - Planets.net", "Earth - Planets.net" etc. Title seems to be one of the most heavily weighted page elements in google and you'll be limiting your ability to rank for terms other than planets.net by not using them.

**Adam Dicker** · 10-25-2007, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by gawnd

I'd also strongly recommend using dynamic page titles like "Mercury - Planets.net", "Earth - Planets.net" etc. Title seems to be one of the most heavily weighted page elements in google and you'll be limiting your ability to rank for terms other than planets.net by not using them.

Titles and metatags will be done as soon as we firm up the design.

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