23 Apr 2004 | Daniel Burka said...

Thanks for the link Jason. There'll tons of more reviews coming. Just to make it clear, the advertisements on the site right now are for some of our current clients (mostly as placeholders) but they'll be replaced in the next few days when we get approved by Google Adsense.

23 Apr 2004 | Don Schenck said...

God I LOVE the design of their web site!

I HATE you talented design people. Grrrrr...

23 Apr 2004 | Lance Osborne said...

I'd love to see a ranking system of some type.

23 Apr 2004 | Lance Osborne said...

And perhaps some color differentiation between the "good" and "bad." Perhaps green and red? (Okay, I'm nitpicking here.)

Great stuff!

23 Apr 2004 | Steven Garrity said...

Thanks for the feedback Lance. As for a ranking system, we decided that a ranking system isn't very useful for our type of site. For a site like Cnet, where they might review 50 similar cameras (or even 10), a ranking system can be useful to find the worthwhile reviews.

On our site, the reviews are not really comparative, but more based on experience of ownership. How would I rate by ownership experience of my Totoyo Echo Hatchback on a scale of 1-10? I'm not sure that has much meaning on it's own (the Echo Hatchback review is coming soon).

23 Apr 2004 | Lance Osborne said...

My reasoning for wanting to see a ranking system is it would allow for a quick summary without having to actually read the full review. Granted, this sounds lazy on my part. ;-)

Perhaps the "thumbs up/thumbs down" method could work? Or a "recommended/not recommended"? Just throwing out friendly ideas here...

Regardless, if you decide to include guest reviewers, put me on your list! :-)

24 Apr 2004 | huphtur said...

very very cool design! so-so markup.
why the table and the inline styles?

25 Apr 2004 | JF said...

Seems to me you guys are missing the price. Why not include the price paid as a bullet? Would help to frame the reviews (if these headphones are $399, it's not even worth my time to read about them).

26 Apr 2004 | Steven Garrity said...

Yeah, the price is a good point Jason. We've debated it a bit. The reason we're not sure if we'll put it in is because many of the products have been around for a while and the prices are all over the place. A digital camera I review varies from $250 to $400 on Froogle. We might put an "I paid:" field.

26 Apr 2004 | Brad Hurley said...

Another thing that would be useful would be to update the reviews periodically if you have something new to report or if you change your mind. I remember really loving one car I owned for the first three years, and then suddenly I was faced with all kinds of big-ticket repairs, such as having to replace the entire transmission and later the steering rack. And the tires that came with the car only lasted me only a couple of years before they needed to be replaced. The review I would have written about that car after four years would be very different than one I would have written at, say, two years. The nice thing about the Web is that reviews can be living documents, added to or modified whenever you have new information.