Thread: Just launched new website, feedback please :)

Pretty interesting. Very simple design and I'm sure with time you will start adding the advertising to monetize your site. The only thing I would say is the Bimmer Fail.com logo in each picture should be uniformed. If each logo were in the right hand corner of each picture it would look cleaner. Try using a simple paint program or photoshop to cover up the license plates, instead of using the logo. That's just my two cents. The best of luck to you!

This one makes me laugh heartily. I wonder if the owner knows that the Monster logos are mirrored.

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Website looks good. Simple and clean, the way everyone likes them these days.

Here are a few suggestions that I think will help.

- Change the permalink structure. It looks better and helps with SEO. i.e. http://www.bimmerfail.com/?p=459 to http://www.bimmerfail.com/chrome-m3-get-that-arab-money . You can do this under "Settings > Permalinks"
- Add more writing under each photo
- Add a comment button below each post
- Use something like the Digg Digg plugin for Wordpress so people can share on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
- Maybe consider an image on the top right of the header to get rid of the whitespace

Once you add more content you can also use a related post plugin under each post and a top fails section to the sidebar.

I know you already bought the domain and started on this site, but why limit yourself to just BMW? It would be a lot more interesting if you had all kinds of rides and BMW was just 1 section. Just a thought.

I personally think the title "Bimmer Fail" is begging for a slogan or catch phrase.

Originally Posted by FMan

Here are a few suggestions that I think will help.

- Change the permalink structure. It looks better and helps with SEO. i.e. Chrome M3? …. Get that arab money! | Bimmer Fail to Chrome M3? …. Get that arab money! | Bimmer Fail . You can do this under "Settings > Permalinks"
- Add more writing under each photo
- Add a comment button below each post
- Use something like the Digg Digg plugin for Wordpress so people can share on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.
- Maybe consider an image on the top right of the header to get rid of the whitespace

Once you add more content you can also use a related post plugin under each post and a top fails section to the sidebar.

I know you already bought the domain and started on this site, but why limit yourself to just BMW? It would be a lot more interesting if you had all kinds of rides and BMW was just 1 section. Just a thought.

Thanks for all the tips man, started working on the permalink structures that was a big help. Your other suggestions i am working on as well and started to include more writing and figuring out how to do regular write ups for the posts, i started adding videos from youtube as well.

Originally Posted by Arthur

Website looks good. Simple and clean, the way everyone likes them these days.

Thanks man, that is what i was going for.

Originally Posted by David@MR

This one makes me laugh heartily. I wonder if the owner knows that the Monster logos are mirrored.

lol yeah that one cracks me up

Originally Posted by Curci3

Pretty interesting. Very simple design and I'm sure with time you will start adding the advertising to monetize your site. The only thing I would say is the Bimmer Fail.com logo in each picture should be uniformed. If each logo were in the right hand corner of each picture it would look cleaner. Try using a simple paint program or photoshop to cover up the license plates, instead of using the logo. That's just my two cents. The best of luck to you!

I actually started doing this was well, been placing the logo's on the bottom corner and just blanking out the plates, everything looks much uniformed and professional. Thank you for the tips

Originally Posted by Miticale

I personally think the title "Bimmer Fail" is begging for a slogan or catch phrase.

Yeah i really want to create one and i usually am pretty good with thinking up with stuff but have been stumped, if anyone thinks of one i am all ears!

Thanks everyone for the feedback, i greatly appreciate it! I have been working on SEO stuff and figuring out ways to make the website as awesome as possible

I just wanted to give a mini update. We have google adsense up and running and have now started adding more text to our post making it better for people to read and understand the pictures more. We also went viral in a bunch of different countries and have been getting decent traffic for being a new website. We are also in the process of adding a few other niche picture sites such as jdmfail.com vdubfail.com and we purchased ricedexotics.com to give a make over and add to our network.

I appreciate everyones supports and comments!

Look at The Truth About Cars website. Here is the format:

Snarky Caption
Picture
Snarky summary
Link to go see more pictures, full write up, and user comments

The key to this format is you first hook people with something very short and funny, then the picture, then the slightly longer text and then let them dig in deeper if interested. This is the order in which the ADHD brain processes data. It also means that when you scroll down, you see ten different pictures/captions that quickly catch your eye. With your current design, I scrolled several times and was still seeing pictures of the same yellow BMW with Lambo doors. I didn't get the quick impact of multiple cool things, rapidly in a row on the front page.

You have some great content. I think if you consolidate the content so it's easier to browse and then dig in, as well as adding social comments (which are often the funniest part, again TTAC is a good example) you have a great site.

I like it! runs smoothly and actually pretty funny cars lol

Originally Posted by saintz

Look at The Truth About Cars website. Here is the format:

Snarky Caption
Picture
Snarky summary
Link to go see more pictures, full write up, and user comments

The key to this format is you first hook people with something very short and funny, then the picture, then the slightly longer text and then let them dig in deeper if interested. This is the order in which the ADHD brain processes data. It also means that when you scroll down, you see ten different pictures/captions that quickly catch your eye. With your current design, I scrolled several times and was still seeing pictures of the same yellow BMW with Lambo doors. I didn't get the quick impact of multiple cool things, rapidly in a row on the front page.

You have some great content. I think if you consolidate the content so it's easier to browse and then dig in, as well as adding social comments (which are often the funniest part, again TTAC is a good example) you have a great site.

Thank you for that, have been looking at their site since your recommendation and learning. I appreciate it

Originally Posted by Bignicky1

I like it! runs smoothly and actually pretty funny cars lol

Thanks brother!