Windosill by Patrick Smith

Good find. I love this guy’s work.

As for site recommendations? I think you need to freshen up the layout and move to three columns. Navigation and important permalinks on the left (the nav tabs are easily overlooked in the current position), content in the middle and ad’s on the top and right. The logo could also be more prominent. Finally, I think you need to start (tastefully) injecting ads (including pimping your own store) every 6th post or so. You gotta pay the bills right?.

The only other nitpicks I have are being able to log in from a comment box without being redirected away from the post/site and to allow the UQ to go three pages deep. That’s free content for users to browse, click and hang around so why let posts disappear after they drop off page one? Another reason is that some popular posts have been bumped off the Que by unpopular/spam submissions and they need another page or two to stay in the game.

Crowdsource designs for the apparel part of the online shop.
The blog is already fantastic.

This is a simple suggestion, but I think that it would make viewing Neat-o-rama far more enjoyable: Make it so that there is an option to make all links open in new tabs. I hate following a link (forgetting to hold “Ctrl” down), accidently closing it intead of hitting “Back” and then having to track down where I was on your site…

You might consider getting a graphic designer to re do your homepage. While simple is good, neatorama does need an update.

Also, maybe consider getting a tumblr or twitter to expand your online presence.

I love this game – played the first few levels and I’m addicted already.

The front page can be cleaned up a little. If possible, it would be nice if the front page displayed the thumbnails of some feature posts/items from the store (moving the posts and the navbar on the right down a bit).

And perhaps you should add some more color to your layout – I think the ads would definitely blend in better that way.. The ads just.. don’t seem friendly at all right now.

Also.. have you thought about getting twitter to get more followers..?

I think it’s a great store, so the only recommendations I have is, how about some more awesome products?

I understand that having some comerciales on the side bares contribute to fund the well-being of the site, but it can be rather annoying. The best improvement I could proposed would be to reduce the size of the ads-banners or put them at the end of the page in order for people not to see them too much.
Also, some section of the site could have some multi-langual translation ?

windowsill – beautiful game!

Whatever you do, don’t follow mental_floss’s decision to tax comments with those annoying flyby ads that you have to scrutinize in order to close.

1. Use advertising space on the right to present items in the store… scrolling images of the newest and best selling products.

2. Ability to view upcoming Que links based on current link that is used… I know, I’m confused too… each blog post is listed in a category, so a post for Arts and Crafts would have a link to view Arts and Crafts in the upcoming Que.

3. New merch

I’d like to see neatorama offer, date browsing, so incase if you miss one days posts, you don’t have to go through each page looking for them, you could select from a calendar the date of the posts you wish to see. This type of indexing is a little different that what everyone else offers, and in the case of neatorama that has a plethora of posts daily allows you to keep up with the content easily.

Also, consider setting up a page number selection format rather than having to scroll through each page to get to older content. similar to what is available at the bottom of a google search or other sites.

I also like the idea of setting links to open in a new window, every so often if I forget to hold CTRL I hate that it takes me away from neatorama.

I’d love a code and thanks for all the great work and content keep it up

I like how the site looks, but I think you might consider the idea of placing the ads of the right banner lower, I think “categories”, “last posts” and “collaborations” should be placed above the ads

I believe that you should try to put more ads in the right banner and not in the upper banner, because now I can see an ad that is totally green and it doesn’t look good over the grey.

I wish that helps and that I get rewarded as well

Not enough political posts.

I doubt there are any more activation codes left, but what I would like to know is, how do you know you can go no further in the demo version, as the key blocks are not so obvious to find.

By the way, I was extremely pleased to find windosill to be the open ended exploration game that it is, I thought it might merely be something more conventional with neat graphics.

As you know, blogs have begun to adopt some aspects of conventional pre-IT revoution business models. One of the most obvious and general of these is loosely phrased “createing stakeholder ownership.” While that seems like trite business jargon, it simply refers to the act or series of acts in which an organization allows personal investment of some kind from all of the people who have at least some interest in the organization. The methods are various and many. Companies ofering profit-sharing exhibit this phenomenon. Wal-Mart is famous for its success in creating local ownership via sponsoring community activites and carrying local college mechandise. Neatorama (and other blogs) ususually implement the function by facilitating a blog-exclusive social community via subscriber posting, profiles, chat options (of course comments), giveaways etc. This has been one of the leading factors in the expanse of blogging as a viable business. While not practical in traditional organizational structures, blogs further support decentralizing command and control (not complete dectralization). This stands to reason as a blog’s value derives from its popularity. One option is to increase the association between posts and people who post. This could include adding his/her profile image (or another image of choice) next to his/her name as the post author. Increasing incentives to post would be another good option. This could include randomly draw giveaway or better yet, competitions based on some formula derived from the authors number of posts, average number of views per post, average user rating of posts. Additionally, neatorama could sponsor something like a recruiting program by providing incentives for neatorama users to refer other users to the site. An example of this would involve various strata of giveaway items. When a new user registers, offer a field for a referal user name worth some some value to the new user if they provide a valid user name for the person who recruted him/her. The value for this field could include some point system related to the aformentioned formula for calculating the value neatorama associates with a blogger. For this system to work effectively, neatorama must implement it as a comparative system rather than an absolute point value per reward system, the latter of which would actually motivate fraud. I don’t want to take the time to go into further detail as this comment is already too long, and neatorama may have already adopted similar systems. However, should this suggestion be of value to neatorama, simply email me and I’ll gather and organize the information into a detailed plan based on precedent systems and relevant business models based on scholarly journals, textbooks etc. I’m a project manager by education, but I like to do this kind of stuff for fun too.

for FREE

Gray is sort of a bad color for a site like this, maybe adding more color to the layout would help make everything look less bland and empty.

To make the blog a little better, I would suggest adding a feature that would allow fans of it to submit content to already-made entries (extra stuff that you missed and/or didn’t get to).

if anyone has a unused or reusable activation code please send it to hiphophopey@yahoo.com PPPLLLEEEAAASSSEEE??????!!!!!!

best game ever!

anyone have the code?

a game that is ”reflecting” this site so that more people would join, perhaps pun it on other game sites.

Make it free! please *happy face*

i think it is pretty good as it is but you could add some color

Should i Get Activation Code………??

windosill is rubish

awesome game love it so much neatorama is sweet

when do i get the code?

to get money, post some ads. you can be rich!!

when do iget the code????????!!!!!!!!????????!!!!!!!!

Maybe add more good reviews for big games on the consoles, like infamous 2, halo reach, svr 2011, etc. If u know the code for september 2010, please post it.