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Oddstruments.com provides a space to share interesting and original musical instruments, artwork, science, and technology. Artists and inventors can share their work by uploading their media to the user portal. The site has two faces, the blog section and the media sharing section. The blog showcases outstanding work while the sharing section allows for social networking and community involvement.
How could the website encourage users to upload their media to the media portal?
How could the website bring in more traffic?
What design elements need improvement to make a more user friendly experience?
Anything else?
The idea is awesome. Very niche and unique.
I like the design of the website it's very unique and interesting. Maybe the pages a bit smaller so we don't have to scroll a lot to see many information on one page. Maybe navigation on side or button will help too if you decide to keep pages long.
I suggest you use Twitter to bring in more traffic to your site by following the people with interest in musical instruments and then provide tips and techniques about instruments, art and technology and also send updates with links about your news posts. Remember to include #tags when tweeting for instance: #art #music..etc. If you have Twitter already then I suggest you make it more clear at front page as I didn't see any.
You have very interesting posts on your site. I highly recommend you use something like "addthis" auto-sharing button to encourage visitors to spread the word. I user TweetMeme on my site for tweeting and it help attracting visitors too by people re-tweeting about your posts through TweetMeme.
Hope this help!
Good Luck :)
Tam
Great looking site, and interesting content too, well done.
Only issue with it is the pagination is all the way at bottom, bit annoying having to scroll down to bottom everytime.