Relaunch of HearWhere - Rate/Review my startup

1. Adsense is way too big and too prominent. Take it away from the fontpage and only put it on the search results page

2. Static frontpage is empty. Boring.

3. The page is aligned leftwards on my macbook widescreen.

4. This is not important, but you are not being careful to properly center align stuff. Like the "Next 30" button

5. The difference in your font sizes on the sidebar is too large. Make it smaller

6. The names of the cities, like 'Paris' have some wierd dots before them

7. "Feature Artists"? Do you mean featured artists?

8. I don't like music auto-playing on a website. Inform me first.

9. Your favicon colors suck. No seriously, those are very dull colors

- Now here are some things you should do

1. Go to one of the online avatar creators and make yourself a vector avatar with big ears. It will give your site a more friendly look

2. Drop that big-ass adsense banner, it makes your site look cheao

3. Change the color scheme slightly to a more appealing color. Mixing gray and brown is not good

4. Importat: When I search I want to see the artists I searched for in the middle, not some features artists. Show more results in the middle, the sideways display is a bit strange

5. Explain what the map does, I could not figure it out.

6. Clicking next did not work

-- Things you did good

1. Nice page after the front page

2. I like the photoshop work

3. It's focused on a problem. I just wish it would just show me what I want, which is musicians in my town this weekend and next weekend.

Good show. Tons of smaller feedback: -"Feature Artists" -- should be "featured" -you have 3 distinct styles on the rhs list, for date/pic/details. I'd say go with one and make it work, it looks cluttered. Otherwise the design got a lot slicker! nice! -"featured artists" -- two-line genres go on out of bounds. -right column header should left-align to that column's boundary (it's sticking out left, at least in chrome) -orange-colored div is duplicate content w/featured artists (at least in my area) and pushes the map below the fold. -okay, taking another look, I get it now: the orange-colored div is associated with the map. you could make that clearer by grouping them visually -- bunched in one div, for instance. but I actually don't like that choice for what goes on the homepage map: I'd say put the featured artist events on the map, and kill the orange div. -I second utnick's suggestion for a weekly digest -I still don't like the adsense, but I like maxklein's suggestion to only show it on secondary pages: you'll keep most of your money (I'd guess that you'd get 5-7 pageviews per visitor on avg, which means you'd lose 15-20% of your ad revenue) and make a much better first impression. -The player needs to be higher on the page! that's a rad feature and it needs to be above the fold. Kill one of the "artist" sections (featured, rhs, orange-top).

Where are you getting the data from? There is even data for Luxembourg in it, which I think is only published on the websites where artists are going to play?

I went back to the drawing board and rebuilt the site. Unfortunately two features haven't made it in yet (select a date range, and get a better way to manage genres), but there have been MAJOR changes to what the site offers and how it works.

Thanks to all who commented originally, hope you like the new version, and I'm keen to get any feedback on what I can do to make it better. Pete

Two minor things: 1) "DJ Carlito" came up as "�J CARLITO" and when I clicked on "Peaches" the "About Peaches" section was for a different group. Otherwise I thought it was pretty good.