On the New Look..and More
PluGGd.in got an overhaul last week and the feedback so far has been very mixed – many of you personally told me that the new look is awesome, while the voting shows a different result – 60% say the new look sucks!
Hence, I am mashing up both the feedbacks – i.e. will stick to this theme and work with a
designer to get the “right” color effect!
Meanwhile, there are a couple of questions with regards to reader submitted posts (for e.g. revenue sharing et al). Since the announcement, I have received 12 posts, out of which only 2 have been approved.
Why?
- Few posts were too badly formatted- It’s as good as rewriting the entire article from the scratch.
- Few posts were pure marketing stuff – “we are a services co. ..” kind of blah – please avoid such posts.
As far as revenue sharing is concerned, I am hunting for a plugin that can allow me to do that. But to start off, if 5 of your posts are approved, you will get a goodie!:)
The approval criteria is very simple – if your articles are relevant to indian startups, has a strong geeky element, send them right away!
FYI – the left sidebars are inspired from yahoo.com – any feedbacks on that? is it too boring?
If you do more than 100K page views a day, google adsense can let you do revenue sharing with multiple account creation etc. This is even programmable.
The problem with the new theme is that the different blocks are not segregated and it feels cluttered to me
Also, I think the look is too minimal, all the sections look the same/equally important, so when a new person hits the website, he/she doesn’t know where to look at.