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[Brian Gillingham]

Review me: http://betterwindowssoftware.com

Some of you may have seen my posts about my site in the "Showcase" forum here, but I have made some major improvements and updates - including user voting.... so - have at it! Give me any critiques or advice.

My best enhancement has to do with listing "Similar Software" based on keywords (each program has its own keywords associated with it). Below these listings, I provide links to search any of the keywords in any of the program types (Freeware/Shareware/Demo...); each of these links displays the [#] of matches that a search would yield.

The voting system is only visible once you download anything. Only if a program had any votes, is the average score displayed.

I did all of the graphics on the site as well, but I think that I wandered a bit off of the blue that I wanted... too many different blue hues.

[rldowling03]

Yea it looks good, layout is ok, and seemed to work great but couldnt find what I was looking for but anyway good site. Keep Up The Good Work

[owbussey]

This is a very good serach engine for software. It is a perfect place where you can specify the operating system and the types of applications and even what genre of application. each window per application is spearated nicely from the others. There are symbols which give compatibility requirements, pay status and other key information. The searching fiunction is very easy. Also the price of any software is out front and not within a link thqat you have to go to to find the price out.

Go to this site. It si very good!

[Brian Gillingham]

Thanks for the meaningful reviews.

One problem that we don't know how to tackle is the duplicates. Software authors get around the restriction by either submitting under a new company name or a new title name. It doesn't look like there are too many duplicates in our database, but we are aware of the problem and are working on a better solution - your ideas are always welcome.

We recently added some user-selectable themes. Blue is the default, but the simple one contains no extra graphics - and can load quicker if you have a slower connection. The "Tan" theme is my new favorite.

Advanced Search | Grid View

We finished the "Advanced Search | Grid View" that allows for more specifics when you are searching (optionally specify "Operating System", "Minimum File Size", "Maximum File Size", "Program Category", "Program Type", ) - with control over sort column and items per page. It is a much quicker way to navigate through the data and it may eventually replace our search results output page. There are still some features to be added to this, but it is currently published and ready to use.

Edited by Brian Gillingham, 26 October 2006 - 09:37 PM.