New Price comparison site

[ojsimon]

Hi
I just wanted to tell people about my new site

http://www.ThePriceDetective.com

Could anyone review it for me?

does anyone have any suggestions, or does anyone want to do link exchanges or other marketing techniques with my site?



Hope you find it useful.

Thanks

[Nile]

I think it's ok.
Here are a few things you should work on:
1) The input(first one) that I type in, displays a little block, then indivisible characters, and repeats(randomly), so change the font or add a back up.
2) At the front of the site, have checkboxs, so the user can chose what websites that they want to use.
3) Drop the tab content. Add a PHP thing that will get the price of an object on a page, like below.


******** Price: $10.99

4) Add a link under all of the price tellers, to all the sites that the search is searching on.
I hope this helps,
Nile

[thetestingsite]

I like the concept of it, but there are a couple of items. Firstly:

Your page is in violation of Dynamic Drive's usage terms (http://www.dynamicdrive.com/notice.htm), which, among other things, states that the credit notice inside script must stay intact. Please reinstate the notice first.

Second: The page doesn't validate. (See http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thepricedetective.com%2F)

There may be more, but I really haven't gone in depth with it.
Hope this helps.

[Medyman]

Yea, I agree with thetestingsite.
Good concept, but the follow-through could be better.

The homepage has no instructions on what to do, no guidelines on what i should enter into the textbox, or what the site is about.

On the results page, the tabs really make the site hard to use.
Websites like eBay have enough going on in the pages anyway. When you squeeze it into a fixed width container, and make it so i have to scroll to get any utility, there really is no point.

If you're serious about the site, you should review some user experience and accessibility guidelines. I think that's your biggest problem here.

The site should be adding to what's already on the market. You're simply linking to other sites. Why would I use your server versus just going to that site in the first place and be able to view it full screen. You might also want to check the TOS of those sites and make sure you're not violating their copyrights.

A lot of websites -- Amazon, eBay, B&N, etc.. etc.. -- have APIs that you can tap into and provide some sort of mashup (in the way that Froogle does). That, I think, would be more useful.

[ojsimon]

Thanks for all the ideas and yes i will get onto all these things when i get a chance.

thanks