ChevronX Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 What do you guys want in a Game/Software/Hardware review site? I have been meaning to create one; and at the moment I am doing a concept design. I need to include stuff people want, as as the Hak5 community has been all around the web I was wondering what functions you would like to see in a review site? Maybe things others are missing or just what you would like to see. Thanks; at the moment I have: Website Functions: review & howto Reviews - Include good high quality preview images - Users to submit their own reviews using a form that has spell checking. Reviews are held off main site until accepted or edited. -Games -Shopping Websites -Hardware -Software Helpdesk forum Other things I need: Most Popular Game heading Search Function clean Printable pages Maybe a forum: Howto area; with guides. If possible; reviews translated into other languages. RSS Feeds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 There's a billion out there, so you'll probably have a hard time getting noticed. Best of luck to you. What I want in a review site is basically what the HotHardware / Tom's / Anandtech / HardOCP / etc of the world bring. Except for some MAYOR annoyances that some of these sites tend to have. Specifically: - 2 lines of actual article content per ad-laden page. - lack of realism. Like calling 2 FPS difference 'significant' rather than the statistical anomaly that it is. - Putting a lot of opinion in a review. It doesn't have to be a dry display of numbers, but do we really need to know how a something came to be? - combining the results of a current review with the results of (far) older reviews 'for reference'. That was on Tom's once. Where they did a 'massive CPU review' by comparing everything made since the P100 with eachother. Yawn! - getting into pissing contests with other review sites. - bias / fanboy-ism. - and image says more than a thousand words, but make them count. When reviewing something based on a game, you could just put the numbers on the screen as-is. - usable navigation through the article, and the possibility to direct-link to a page. I'm sure there are more, but if you can steer away from those you're already well on your way of creating something worthwhile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevronX Posted May 28, 2007 Author Share Posted May 28, 2007 Thanks alot for your reply; all your points are valid and are helping me towards designing a better one. All opinions & ideas are of course welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChevronX Posted June 1, 2007 Author Share Posted June 1, 2007 What do you guys of this concept design? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OtterFox Posted June 2, 2007 Share Posted June 2, 2007 tomshardware.com + gamespot.com = great Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 What do you guys of this concept design? I think it looks bad, sorry. Your name in boring, thin letters, presumably as banner, the reviews in the same boring letters and font so you don't immediately see a separation between banner and available content. The image of the logo or packaging of the item next to it is too small an image, a stray .RSS logo which doesn't tell me or makes it obvious what it feeds to me (game reviews, hardware reviews, both, other, all?) and a _lot_ of wasted space in the bottom-right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted June 3, 2007 Share Posted June 3, 2007 I like computer hardware/software review sites with comparison, specifically side-by-side comparison of similar products. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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