CoogleX: Designed To Be Your Homepage

[www.cooleon.us]

Name of Site/Business: www.cooleon.us

URL: http://www.cooleon.us

Site's Main Purpose: Fun/Leisure

Site's Specialty: Tiny url service, File upload service (10MB), one-click access to Weather.com, Answers.com, Wikipedia, IMDB, and more.

Please Review the following:
Navigation. Is it clear and easy to understand?

Appearance/Attractiveness

Is the Contact, Privacy and Legal information adequate in relation to main purpose of site?

Search engine marketing. Can the pages be reasonably well indexed by search engines?



Additional Comments/Notes

History about the site:
-----------------------
This site/page was originally designed for my own convience. Then, as it turned out, a handful of ppl (mainly ppl that I know) actually found it useful and started using it. I decided that others might like it too, so I rendered the graphics, coded some a couple more cool features and made it my personal site's homepage.

Future of this site:
--------------------
1. What should I add to this site? (i.e. How can I expand it?
2. Where do you think I'm going with this? I mean, for now, I'm motivated to keep developping this site b/c I take pride in the fact that people find this page useful. In the future, when I lose my sense of pride in this project, can this site serve any meaningful purpose to me? (btw, I wouldn't want to have google ads on this page. I think it's gonna kill it.)

A Hackneyed Questions:
----------------------
How should I promote this site?
(Just a note: I'm not planning on spending tens of hours on promoting this site, at least not yet. I'm not really trying to get anything out of this site at this point. But I do want ppl to use it tho! hehe... am I making a paradox here? >.<)

[Craig]

Hi

First let me say that you have done a good job :-), soft colours, simple design, nice glaze & nice logo lol. I think its a 10/10 for me & your lucky to get a 10/10 from me, 98% its a 8/10.

Congrats & goodluck with your site.

[www.cooleon.us]

"your lucky to get a 10/10 from me, 98% its a 8/10"
Surely I am lucky, I feel very much honored being complimented by a FWS Addict.

Thank you Craig!

[Craig]

"your lucky to get a 10/10 from me, 98% its a 8/10"
Surely I am lucky, I feel very much honored being complimented by a FWS Addict.

Thank you Craig!

ROTFLMAO Your welcome

[www.cooleon.us]

Update: I reread Google Free's terms and "One of the conditions for use is that you can't mess around with our logo. Only we get to do that."

So I updated the site's logo, please check it out.

[X3r0X]

That is a truly nice website. Clean layout, good icons, nice header (cant say im a grunge fan but still) and nice incorporation of features. Im not going to *rate* it per say, but I will say that is is a very nice website :).

[www.cooleon.us]

:D Thx to X3r0X for such encouragement!

Something that excites me: I'm getting around 1000 unique visitors a day right now, but... it's down sloping...

[kawaiistar]

Really Nice! :) That would be an awsome homepage for anyone ^_^ I shall make it my homepage :) It would be even better if you had a "make it your homepage" link ;) I don't see one on there but correct me if i'm wrong.

[hottweelz]

I think I said this in another post,

That's one helluva site!

[Yellowmc]

Thanks, I now have a new homepage, that is a great site.

[Brandon]

You have earned the great honor of being my homepage :)
Great site, I like all the neat little extras, like searching wikipedia and all that.
11/10

[RangerOfFire]

Wow, thats a really nice site.

Its not often something really makes me think "wow", but your site's done it, mainly because of the link effect above the search bar. Maybe should use Google's custom search page and add your logo to it.

[www.cooleon.us]

Special thanks to kawaiistar, hottweelz, Yellowmc, Brandon, RangerOfFire for their kind comments!

Updates:
- I've taken the new logo (http://www.cooleon.us/images/Cooleon.jpg) down as it really doesn't fit with the rest of the layout.
- Originally I had a link for "making this your homepage", but it wasn't obvious, I made it more obvious now.
- I've added an "About" section. I was gonna add more sections and make them more informative. But I decided not to (just for now) b/c I'm planning on redesigned the entire site.

Please comment on the following:
- I'm going to make the site more dynamic, as to users could choose what to display on their site. My questiosn is, should I make them login (with a pwd) and let them be able to have personal stuff uploaded to their page -or- just give them their own (public) folder and not let them be able to have private stuff.

About the future theme:
What do you guys prefer?
- Google like, as it is right now.
- Grunge style throughout, like http://www.cooleon.us/images/Cooleon.jpg
- Aqua-silver-gray type
- Somethign else

[RangerOfFire]

Give them a public folder and maybe use a private folder based on their hostname and ip, eg: if their hostname and ip are xxxx and xxxx then show folder blah. <?php gethostbyaddr("$_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR]"); ?>

[Nug]

real nice!
10/10!
I've made it my homepage to:P
If i was you I'd add a proxy and a whois..

[holydevil]

hey how did u make d navigation its really cool can u share d idea (script)

i give u 10/10

[iBrightDev]

what a great looking site. i love it. maybe when you get a little further in the project you can develop your own search engine like yahoo or google, and maybe become bigger than them. :)

[TaintedPearls]

i really like your site. i'm glad you put the logo back. it looks great and it's helpful. 20/10!

[Paul White]

He made the navigation with Javascript...


k=document; v=Date; x=false; z=Array; af=Math.floor; ag=RegExp; b=new z(13); ss=new z("null","web","images","groups","news","froogle","local","scholar","video","maps","labs","gmail","more"); aa=new z(11); ab=10; t=0; u=0; n=0; o=new v(); h=5; m=385; c=0; w=x; var title; var firstHoverOccurred=x; m=385; p=0;
function d(ac){c=ac;o=new v();setTimeout("gidle()",20);}
function e(ac){c=0;w=x;o=new v();setTimeout("gidle()",20);}
function ae(){for(var j=1;j<b.length;j++){b[j]=35}title=k.getElementById('imageTitle');for(i=0;i<b.length;i++){aa[i]=new Image();aa[i].src="/images/"+ss[i+1]+".gif"}setTimeout("gidle()",20);}
function gidle(){var l=0;
for(var i=1;
i<b.length;
i++){
var imagename="image"+i;
var imageElem=k.getElementById(imagename);
if(c!=i){
if(b[i]>35){
b[i]-=h;
if(b[i]<=35){
b[i]=35;
imageElem.src="/images/"+ss[i]+"-sm.gif"
}
imageElem.width=b[i];
imageElem.height=b[i];
if(c==0){
var g=af(255-255*(b[i]-35)/35);
title.style.color="rgb("+g+","+g+","+g+")"
}
p=1
}
l+=b[i]
}
}
if(c!=0&&b[c]<70){
imagename="image"+c;
imageElem=k.getElementById(imagename);
if(w==x){
w=true;
if(c<7){
var y=390-(c-1)*70;
title.innerHTML=k.getElementById(imagename).alt+'<img src="/images/cleardot.gif" width="'+y+'" height="1"/>'
}else{
var y=(c-7)*70+35;
title.innerHTML='<img src="/images/cleardot.gif" width="'+y+'" height="1"/>'+k.getElementById(imagename).alt
}
}
b[c]+=h;
p=1;
if(b[c]>70){
b[c]=70
}
l+=b[c];
if(l<m){
b[c]+=m-l;
if(b[c]>70){
b[c]=70
}
l=m
}
var g=af(255-255*(b[c]-35)/35);
title.style.color="rgb("+g+","+g+","+g+")";
imageElem.width=b[c];
imageElem.height=b[c];
k.getElementById(imagename).src="/images/"+ss[c]+".gif"
}
m=l;
var ad=new v();
ab=ad.getTime()-o.getTime();
o=ad;
t+=ab;
u++;
n=t/u;
h=5;
if(u>4){if(n>30){
h=10
}
if(n>60){
h=15
}
if(n>90){
h=20
}
}
if(p){
setTimeout("gidle()",20);
p=0
}
}