Any comments on my latest:

www.carpricevault.com

The site allows users to submit reports on car purchases and leases to the site's database, including sales price and monthly payment. It also offers a couple of calculators and tips pages. There's some reporting on the data on the front page and on the page for each make/model/state combination. If the DB starts to grow, I think there's the potential for lots more interesting reporting.

I'm always tweaking the formatting, and thinking of adding more content-centric pages (blog, news, etc.) but most of the work so far has gone into getting the db and navigation the way I wanted.

Any thoughts from fresh eyes or brains are appreciated :-)

Looks like a nice clean site and it's fairly easy to quickly find you're way around it. I guess your problem is going to be in getting the reviews. Your're going to need a lot of people hitting your site and getting reviews on the pages in order to give it an authoratitive look (and in order for it to be a useful resource). Like the rest of us, I guess you'll be looking at quality inbound links as part of the way of attracting just that kind of response.

I'm not a motor buff by any stretch of the imagination but are people actually going to fill in the information you ask at that level of detail? I suppose time will tell.

Good luck.

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It would not load for me. But I do have a slow connection.

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Page did load but took its own sweet time to do so. My connection is also slow but one of the reasons for the slow load time could be the fact that the page has a lot of tables in it. Also the file size of the logo image is huge. Would be a good idea to better optimize it. Also reduce its width.

Also would be a good idea to have some explanatory text about the site on the home page. Otherwise site looks good and is neat.

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Loaded fast on cable. Could not read your top left menu items at all. Agree with Sands - a clear and brief purpose statement on top would help figure out what's going on.

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There are prices in $ on the home page. This is a clue. But they could of course be US, Canadian, Australian etc etc.

www stands for 'world-wide web'. You need to show with a map or words what country(ies) your site is for. Car prices in dollars, even US ones, are useless for millions of surfers....

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Thanks everyone for the feedback. Definitely some things to consider for my next rework of the template and front page.

what's the benefit of anyne posting stuff? There needs to be something in it for them, other than helping you...

Pewrsonally i found the main page unclear otherthan to add a report. There could be more dialog with the site visitor

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If you look on existing automotive message boards, car buyers actually love searching for and sharing this information. I think the site will offer a much more structured and informative way to do it than just searching forum posts. And the more data that does make it in, the more useful the site could become to car shoppers.

I agree that getting things rolling will be a challenge, and it may be some time before there's enough data to make things meaningful. But saying that people won't use it if there's nothing 'in it' for them is a little short-sighted. Sites like epinions.com, resellerratings.com, and bizrate never would have gotten off the ground if everyone thought like that.