Pages Review Request - Online Poker ED

[addaminsane]

i've been working on online poker ED off and on and just transferred some new pages. The primary focus of the site is to be a new player online poker guide.

as you can see throughout the site primary recommendations for new players are to join poker savvy, learn fundamental game-play skills through the fulltilt academy, and i list PokerStars mainly for the sake of including the general knowledge that it is indeed the largest online poker room.

Anyways, I would like to request some feedback on a few particular pages in terms of usefulness to a new player.

Play Poker Now - Trying to inform players on getting started and recommending the process by where to sign up through and how to improve knowledge of the game.

Texas Holdem Strategy - I'm really not sure what to do with this section or if the advice is even good at all for a new player. I think its tough to try to condense such a complex subject into a quick overview.

Those are a few of the pages i would appreciate feedback on. Alot of the other sections on the site are not completed. I think the biggest challenge has been thinking about how to structure the site for seo, usability, and keeping the content to-the-point, while remaining useful to a newb.

Anyways, i'd appreciate some comments and suggestions for those pages, as that will probably help me to determine how to go about expanding the content within other topics.

Also, feel free to bash more for content from other areas or make suggestions if you take the time to glance through. I appreciate the feedback.

[addaminsane]

hey guys, i'd now appreciate some feedback on the site. please feel free to bash any areas of the site. the site is now about 4 and a half months old but im starting to see some consistent organic search traffic for terms that i know are new players looking for info and not just webmasters checking rankings.

looking for feedback and criticism about the current layout and navigation, as well as suggestions. Content-wise, i'm still doing alot of writing and structure work on a test server and will transfer another big update all at once. Thanks.

[sirtiner]

Im not gonna say anything about the content but i really like the clean design.

There is two thing tho, you should make the logo as a link to the startpage and also maybe make the logo more sharp, its a bit blurry.

[addaminsane]

thanks for that info, the reason i hadn't linked the logo is because i thought it would give me probably two many homepage links on every page, but it is a usability issue.

as far as the logo goes, thanks for that info, i havn't thought about the look of the logo as it was good enough to get the site listed in some quality design showcases when i had the site set to 10 basic poker pages. The main reason the logo is a tad blurry is because its extremely size optimized. only 11 kb.

content-wise there is some pages i wouldn't mind feedback on, alot of pages though are obviously incomplete / lacking.

[we_got_tops]

I've checked out the Texas Holdem strategy page, so I'll offer my thoughts.

My first instinct was that the italicized sections looked a little strange. Do you think it would look better to just have them in that larger font but with no italics?

I'd probably re-write the first section a little, but I'm mostly just nitpicking. "a foundation for practice and easy expansion of your academic knowledge" sounds awkward to me and I think could be re-written to be more effective.

Overall, I think it's good for a very basic guide to Holdem. You cover some important concepts while keeping it very concise.

Is there a reason you wrote most of your points in a "____ is important" format? I think that varying your language would look better. (Something like "Only play the best starting hands" "Become aware of position" and "The flop is important")

Other than these little things, I think it works pretty well. The site design is good and it's easy to navigate. Well done.

[addaminsane]

Thanks alot for that feedback. i've had a few people tell me some of my wording is off the wall or awkward.

In my mind, i have specific reason to say "academic knowledge" but its not explained very well. There are a lot of little blocks of content on the site in different pages that have weird vocab i need to figure out how to fix.

[we_got_tops]

I think that your "position strategy during a hand" is a little odd. Being in position means acting last, as you explain in preflop, which gives you a huge advantage.

In your postflop example, you're talking about betting out of position when you think you have a chance to take down the pot. I think this is misleading in a basic section about the importance of position. If you're going to use it, maybe call it something like "picking up small pots" and mention that you are out of position. Overall, though, I think this is unnecessary in this type of beginning article.

Also, a tiny, very common mistake: "you're strategy" near the top "you're texas holdem skills" at the bottom should both be "your."

I like it, though. The little style things you include like the check marks and the colors all work really well. Gives off a professional vibe, as does the rest of the site.

[addaminsane]

Bumping the thread with another question because pokersavvy recently closed to usa players and i added alot of room reviews.

do you think my room reviews are good enough as is, or should i make some improvements? if so, what...from a complete newb player perspective. completed review

[GregW]

I'd definitely increase the margin between paragraphs. They're too compact, but if you increased the spacing it would look much better. I''d also just use the first few bolded words as headers (h2 or h3) so that the content would be easier to scan.

[addaminsane]

thanks Greg, i'll try that out. I think i originally didn't include the headers because i wanted to keep the page more compact, but if that hinders readability than i guess i should change it.