Comments on: Windosill by Patrick Smith

By: kelton10

kelton10 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:46:49 +0000

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

By: Martik

Martik — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:05:31 +0000

How can we improve Neatorama (blog and/or online shop?
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ahhh.... lets see, ahhh..

YOU CAN NOT!

( Is that right answer ?! )

By: Jorge

Jorge — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:42:29 +0000

Make it free! please *happy face*

By: Kwin van der Veen

Kwin van der Veen — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:49:07 +0000

I really liked the first half of the game. What would maybe make it more interesting, is by putting more things that you can click in one room and do not let them all be a part in getting the box. So you will need to think harder to find out witch object you will need to succeed. You could even make it possible that you could succeed in multiple ways, so it would still be fun when you play it another time.

By: kablaouye

kablaouye — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:01:10 +0000

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

By: kablaouye

kablaouye — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:58:24 +0000

A re-mixable screen so you could make it a little more like....home, and maybe some sort of list of categories of all of the reviews so it is easier to find stuff here. And a update on the site's logo would be nice....

By: joshisamazing

joshisamazing — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:11:51 +0000

anyone have the code?

By: joshisamazing

joshisamazing — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:11:01 +0000

best game ever!!!

By: joshisamazing

joshisamazing — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:09:55 +0000

best game ever!

By: Kreete

Kreete — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:30:04 +0000

It would be nice if there was a clock here according to other countries. Also different themes would make the page more "attractive"

By: hope

hope — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:12:10 +0000

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

By: konan

konan — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:21:57 +0000

pimp it out with cool graphic and stuff

By: Wafercrisp

Wafercrisp — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:22:40 +0000

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).

By: nick

nick — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:44:53 +0000

adding cool pictures and color might attract more people.because (this is just me) i like sites that are fun and colorful

By: Jeshi

Jeshi — Sun, 03 May 2009 02:55:30 +0000

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.

By: Harsh Khetawat

Harsh Khetawat — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:38:13 +0000

Hi..I loved the windosill free stages too..They reflect style and hardwork..really looking forward to playing the full version..problem is I cant buy it where I live(India)!!
SUGGESTION FOR NEATORAMA!!
you know neatorama is pretty good but you could improve the site layout and other teeny-meeny things!! Small contests and other indirect forms of advertisements wouldnt hurt either!! Just stick to the basics and do what you know you are suppposed to, to promote the site and I am sure you will get several others who love it as much as do!!

By: Lnothing7

Lnothing7 — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:12:35 +0000

for FREE

By: Lnothing7

Lnothing7 — Fri, 01 May 2009 07:10:07 +0000

stickers! i'll design them for free

now gimme that code please

By: tmayton

tmayton — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:47:47 +0000

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.

By: unbelievable

unbelievable — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:29:54 +0000

Not to be a suck up but I think the best thing you could do to Neatorama is advertise it more: it rocks. Oh and maybe a slight refresh of the logo (I don't mind the rest of the design).

By: bud

bud — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:50:33 +0000

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.

By: Allimar

Allimar — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:48:16 +0000

I'd also like to see the store become more "Neatorama" and less just random stuff.

By: ted

ted — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:22:47 +0000

Not enough political posts.

By: CLynch

CLynch — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:54:24 +0000

Change nothing. Why fix it if it isn't broke? (can I have the access codes cause you guys are so awesome)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:40:54 +0000

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

By: xadrian

xadrian — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:39:13 +0000

I don't think it needs much of a change to how it looks. I agree with the login bit. I read most of the site from Google Reader and only go to the site if I want to comment.

I also would encourage a user submitted product gallery.

By: IJustSmileandNod

IJustSmileandNod — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:13:36 +0000

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

By: CianCon

CianCon — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:10:53 +0000

Does Neatorama really need a change?

Well ok...but if you do change anything then make sure that people can give feedback on it. And if the changes are mostly unwelcome then make sure you can change things back!

One idea i have is to allow people to subscribe to certain posters and receive an email anytime that that person posts an article.

Another idea is to pretty please give me an activation code because WINDOSiLL is amazing!

By: Travis Sellers

Travis Sellers — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:37:24 +0000

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

By: Jo Jo Damia

Jo Jo Damia — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:05:01 +0000

Patrick Smith's stuff is awesome, thanks for the update

As for the site I'm a fan, but you could do more with the retro style found elsewhere in the blog (Like the nifty watermark in this text box). Also the text on the bottom and sides turns into an absolute jumble on smaller screens, If you guys re-worked it a little, maybe dividing up the text a bit...

Finally, ask for user input like this more often, you never know when a web author might stumble upon the post and give some helpful hints.