I need votes!

[langfhir]

I'd like to draw your attention for a few minutes, if I may, to my website, "The List Of #1's", where you can vote your top choice on a number of topics in the fields of sports, entertainment, celebrities, music, and others. Take a look at

www.listofnumberones.com

and make a few votes. Peace.

Langfhir

[amazing_andr3]

what? i need to fill in all that just to vote?

no way! i want to choose a choice and click a button!

the layout sucks. it's too big, it changes from page to page, it's too simple and doesn't make good use of colors or borders, or anything else for that matters. it's also hard to find the cast your vote link.

[rapid]

coding:
your code isnt valid (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flistofnumberones.com%2Findex.htm&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=HTML+4.01+Strict&ss=1&verbose=1).

the site needs a doc type (http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html).

should replace the table layout (http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold/) with css (http://www.glish.com/css/).

you have two titles (http://www.dreamsubmit.net/site/site_title1.html).

you have three character encodings (http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/charset.html).

you are using html (http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/), which makes use of implicitly closed tags, which means you dont need the '/' that you have at the end of some of your meta tags.

design:
your homepage layout needs a bit of rethinking. the header section is way to big meaning that visitors have to scroll down to get to the #1 topics. since most of the #1s are popular culture topics your site needs to have that kind of feel with images of tv stars, presidents, comic book heros, etc.

might be better if the list of #1s were plain text titles with the top #1 displayed beneath to get people interested along with two button links, one to see the entire top ten and the second to cast your vote. each of the buttons could be nice little images to add some color and sense of graphic design to the site.

then each topic could have its own vote page rather than every #1 linking to the same vote_page.

andr3 is right that is a lot of info. might want to tell visitors that they dont need to fill in all the fields to vote. could even have a quick vote system for each topic with just the current top ten which can be voted for immediately by clicking on, and a box to submit a new vote.

if you get really into this website you could set up a database for the votes so that they can be added to the list almost immediately. this kind of interactivity would encourage more visitors and get you more votes, but...

have you thought about censorship of the votes? are you going to add evey vote regardless of whether it is offensive, abusive or illegal. Or are you going to tell the visitors to your site that their vote will be considered and that you will only include entries that pass your criteria?