What do you think of my Climate Site?

Question

http://global-warming.freehostia.com

Sorry, if there is any loading problems it is because of uploading software it should be fixed by the 8th.

Answer 1

full of lies and not buying it

Answer 2

Good initiative. But the website is impossible to look at. Maybe I'll have another look at it when it is finallized! Keep going though. The issue is serious enough...

Answer 3

Conceptually it looks good.  But recheck your grammer and punctuation (I spotted one error on the first page).

Seriously, you have a good start here. The only other thing I noticed is that you use  a lot of fancy fonts. Its a matter of taste, but you might want to ease off on that a bit.  Those can be great for tites to get the reader's atention--but in the text they are harder to read. You want to make it easy for your audience to access the information--and for that, the body of the text is usually more effective in plain text.

Answer 4

I think you should stop allowing yourself to be sucked in by all the hype.  We are not in a global crisis.  We didn't cause the planet to warm.  All the magical "green" cures that everyone seems to be pushing are all just a means to siphon more money out of us.  Don't buy into it.  Do some research and you'll see that it's all hype.

Answer 5

Watch out!  You asked me to critique and I am critical by nature.

Several "mechanical" problems here.  These may have occurred because you didn't look at your page using a different screen, browser, etc.  Look at it on a friend's computer.  Choose an old one with an old browser.  You want to talk to those people, too.

"Climate change is serious . . ."  It doesn't appear to be serious enough to allow the reader to see the text. I must first click to close the "our site is best viewed" window, then when I try to click "close" to get rid of the smokestacks that are over the text, it closes the tab in IE7 and your page is gone and I *really* can't read it.  Also the text doesn't fit in the text box.  It runs off the bottom and I see no way to scroll down to read it.

Back to "our site is best viewed".  Why do I care?  Why do you care so much that you put it in front of your message?  I will NOT change my screen settings for your benefit.  If your site is difficult to view (and it is), I'm gone.

If "Climate change is serious . . ." is your message, get rid of the c**p in front of the text.  Make sure that I can read it.  Don't give me any kind of irritation that might cause me to close your page.

1261 X 498 screen ratio.  You gotta be kidding!  Do you want your page to look nice only to those with new, wide screens and any other visitor has to scroll around to see what you have?  My screen is 1280 X 800 and I have to scroll left-right to see the whole page.  Don't make your web page that wide.  Again, don't give me a reason to leave before I read your message.

Check your grammar.  Should be "their" in "there own type of Greenhouse Gas..."  Don't let me label you as "uneducated" when you want me to believe that you know what you are talking about.  (So what if I am a jerk for picking on grammar, don't you want me to believe you, anyway?)

On your climate headlines page "back to top" is printed right over the other text.  If you want me to read it, don't make it hard for me to do so.

I have a picture of something right on top of "Po . . . ward of Climate Change…"  That's all I can read.

"leavening"???  Proof read.  Again, make me think that you are smart if you want me to believe you.

"Trees suck in carbon dioxide (CO2) as part of the natural process of respiration" is factually inaccurate.  Respiration **EMITS** CO2!  Find the right word.  Look smart.

". . . this does mean stop growing new plants"  Do you really want me to stop growing plants?  Proof read.

Make sure that your "facts" and "tips" are technically correct, not just that they were published somewhere.  It is best if you know the government paper or research study that generated the information.  If I see ANY errors, I may write you off as some kind of fanatic.  Then your message is lost.

Answer 6

It's a great start.  I love the "plant a tree" section.  I'd recommend you check the main message for grammar and spelling;  "Their share", rather than "there share", "started to do", rather than "stared to do", "tiniest" rather than "most tiniest".  It seems like a petty criticism of a very nice site, but as they say "you asked for it".  Keep up the good word.