"It's been useful for people who want information"

Which people? What information have they found particularly useful?

I do like the way you ask for advice, and the the ways you respond to advice with which you disagree. I wouldn't expect you to agree with all criticism.
If this debate is " internal" eg within your debate club so the participants know you, rather than a team from your debate club in competition with people from " out of town / state" who don't know you ... If your opponents know you, and you're arguing against the proposition that high school students lack ambition....then your opponents will "see" you using your company to support your arguments a dozen country miles away, I'd suggest they'll expect you to make it a central part of your contribution (partly because of your modesty :-) ) They may well have geared their strategy in refuting your contribution on this assumption in their preparation.

Other contributors have made the point, one swallow doesn't make it summer, a " broad expert" ( I just love that combination of two words ha ha ) like yourself should be all over the opportunities to elucidate lyrically on big picture examples of masses of high school students using new technologies to act in ambitious ways that were not a behaviour of high school students in the past. Another suggestion is you could suggest that there are many more ways for high school students to express their ambitions than there were in the good old days...broaden the definition of ambition, your opponents have the blinkers on, their limited view of ambitious activity blinds them to the wondrous reality you unveil with your eloquence

I'm a fuddy duddy when it comes to oxymorons, but the advertising industry has made great use of clever oxymorons

@reedeer1:
Yeah I should probably remove that for now :-)

@Jamie: well, perfect example right now: someone from webdip saw this thread, went to my website and informed me that he can translate things to German for me, since he's native German.
It's good to know such things and the only reason he bothered to inform me was because he saw it mentioned on the website. Obviously I wasn't going to list everything in this thread so I just linked to the website to save me time and the forum space.

To-do list:
Remove home-button :-)
More breaks in the texts.

I'll try a few colours if no one will suggest one.

"I do like the way you ask for advice, and the the ways you respond to advice with which you disagree. I wouldn't expect you to agree with all criticism."

I couldn't tell for sure whether there's a sarcastic tone here, so I'm assuming non-sarcastic to be safe. If it is sarcasm and you think I should respond to advice/criticism differently, let me know and I'll try to respond correctly :-)

Please check broadexpert.com (which is navy now), broadexpert.com/grey.html and broadexpert.com/black.html and suggest which one is best and any other suggestions!

steephie, honest question #1: there are many, many free website themes out there (wordpress is just an example) that look way, way better than your site. why not use one of those?

honest question #2: what exactly is the competition? all i see on your website is a call to send you unsolicited works, which you then will name a price for (if i read that correctly). that has nothing to do with a competition.

@ Steephie: The grey one is the best of the designs you've tried so far. The navy one is too heavy on the eyes - it's just uncomfortable to look at.

You still need to space the paragraphs properly.

@kasimax:
#1 I'm planning to (partially) use WordPress next but I really spent an hour or two on it. It's not going to be the permanent version and I'll get there soon, so I don't want to spend time on altering things to another non-permanent version. Changing colours is seconds of work.

It's also a weird message to send to use templates when you claim you create things yourself :-)

#2: That's kind of work in progress too :-)
If I can find a new graphic designer, good. Otherwise I'll be asking around what my fellow students who are particularly artsy would need as a prize to participate if I made a real competition.

Still, the best design wins right now too. I guess I couldn't find a better word without sounding like I'll pay a lot.

@Jamie: Ok.

You said add one break, I did :-)

You didn't do it to all the paragraphs.

A lot of them are structured thus:

First paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph.
Second paragraph, second paragraph, second paragraph, second paragraph, second paragraph, second paragraph, second paragraph.


Whereas, what I was suggesting you do was:

First paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph, first paragraph.

Second paragraph, second paragraph, second paragraph, second paragraph, second paragraph, second paragraph, second paragraph.




See the difference?

Ah I only did it between the headers, thought you wanted more space between various subjects to seperate those. The other paragraphs are supposed to be 'connected'. I guess the visuals rather than cohesion become more important on a webpage rather than an essay or a book, though.

I'll change it.

Is this what you had in mind? It looks bad to me, but that might just be writing style..

Found two potential website creators as well. We'll get there one step at a time! Like I said, building potential!
Still waiting for a response from Jamie.

jamie already mentioned it i believe, but it's simply too big a wall of text on the first page. you can easily break that up into different pages.

@ Steephie: Yes, that is what I meant. You've missed a couple: "I would brainstorm" and "I'm always considering" should also benefit from a space.

Kasimax is correct to repeat my previous comment - there is just too much text here for a website front page.

I concur, but the 'real' website starts soon and it really only serves the purpose of giving people I direct there information. It has practically no SEO or whatever, so it's just functional and hardly a business card for now: people are only drawn to the site by me because they want information about something, not really in any other way right now.

Too busy to be concerned about it now and because it's more like a summary now, it would just be a third of a summary on each page and it would not be particularly functional and emphasize the current emptiness..

Btw, quite some more interest in both Jobs and potentially buying the boardgame (although that's unrelated) lately.

Why do I get this eerie feeling when I read Steephie's posts that he is destined to achieve either fame or infamy, like he'll outdo the Facebook chap or Bernie Madoff / Lehmann Bros ?

Those who support me from the first hour stand to gain the most..

.....or lose everything

Not really. Just do what Peter did, skipping the getting-crucified-out-of-guilt part.