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Old 04-12-2005, 11:56:17 PM     #6 (permalink)
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Welcome Angie,

Nice to hear that you are still around and not given up on the domain game, although you've probably made a few resellers here shed a tear or two for re-regging all your suspended domains. However, I have noticed that you've put a lot of your village domains up for sale on Sedo, surely you still need these for your project!

Your community website project is a good idea but it always lacked local user input and content, does your company do the local content itself or is it done by the villages themselves?

Just an observation of your any-village webpage for any particular village is that the first thing that strikes me is the million and one links to other webpages that you've got, and all the sponsered ads that don't relate to that village, to the average user this makes the webpage look very confused and busy.

As a potential user, what I think would be better is the following:

(1) The village homepage should be simple and look as clean as possible with the obvious links (maps, places of interest, events, newsletter, history, village crime, etc), either as a menu bar at the top or clickable images. I would have at least on the homepage a random village picture, todays weather (this can be a rss feed), todays events, and possible a live webcam (I live in Australia but whenever I get homesick, I check out my village's webcam, which shows the village green, and I always feel OK again).
(2) All advertising should be for local shops or services. I don't want to be presented with an advert for a Dell computer or eBay.
(3) All the millions of links for the Any-Web services should be under the one link, ie "Any-Web Links", which then would take you to the Any-Web homepage which would hold all your links on the one page.
(4) Ideally, I would like to see the webpage under the "www.myvillage.co.uk" domain rather than "http://www.any-village.co.uk/village.asp?SiteID=AVUK&DN=MYVILLAGE.CO.UK", although this is very difficult for 15,000 domains.

I hope that helps. Best of luck for the future.
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