An Invitation for help...

[AbbeysDad]

Fishy Friends,

This past summer I created a Website with a Blog. It has Hobby related featured videos and 70 articles (and growing) on tropical fishkeeping. Would you have a look and let me know what you think? Overall web design as well as articles. Is there missing content you'd like to see?

Advance Thank-you!, ~Mike V., MJV Aquatics - MJV Aquatics Blog

 

[FishGuest5123]

Fishy Friends,

This past summer I created a Website with a Blog. It has Hobby related featured videos and 70 articles (and growing) on tropical fishkeeping. Would you have a look and let me know what you think? Overall web design as well as articles. Is there missing content you'd like to see?

Advance Thank-you!, ~Mike V., MJV Aquatics - MJV Aquatics Blog

What a work of art! Great information. Will take some time to read it all. I can tell that a lot of work has gone into this. Kudos to you!

 

[eatyourpeas]

One of the best resources for fishkeeping, and I am learning a lot!

 

[AbbeysDad]

What a work of art! Great information. Will take some time to read it all. I can tell that a lot of work has gone into this. Kudos to you!

Thank-you. I think there's a lot of good stuff there!

One of the best resources for fishkeeping, and I am learning a lot!

Thank-you.

I'd hoped for a larger response...99 views but only a few took a look. Maybe more will follow and provide feedback. Hoping anyway.

 

[AbbeysDad]

Still hoping for feedback. I just got a suggestion last night to ensure that all links opened in a new tab, so I edited many articles.

 

[AbbeysDad]

wow - all these views and according to the stats, just a very few even took a look.
Help me build an even better resource for the hobby, especially newer hobbyists. I'd like to see if we can reduce/eliminate the vast numbers of aquariums that end up in the basement, garage, or on Craigs list!
Thank-you.
MJV AQUATICS / MJVAQUATICS BLOG

 

[FishGuest5123]

wow - all these views and according to the stats, just a very few even took a look.
Help me build an even better resource for the hobby, especially newer hobbyists. I'd like to see if we can reduce/eliminate the vast numbers of aquariums that end up in the basement, garage, or on Craigs list!
Thank-you.
MJV AQUATICS / MJVAQUATICS BLOG

It’s worth the look! Lots of hard work and interesting topics. Wish I had been able to read about Building A Fish Room before moving ahead.

 

[Retired Viking]

Very nice site, I have it in my favorite bookmarks thank you for making and posting this

 

[Fishmanic]

I see Byron contributed to it as well. Lots of talent on your site.

 

[mcordelia]

I take a look every now and then, but something that I struggle with a little bit is navigating the site on my phone. When I am in an article and get the picture tiles for the next articles,those don't work super well on mobile format for me, but it might just be a "me" thing as well.

Content-wise, I think it depends on what your target audience is, if your goal is to target beginners, then you need some beginner accessible material. For example "read this before adding water to your fish tank" and "the five most important things to do during the first three months of having fish" etc.

If your target is intermediate-to-advanced fishkeepers, then really emphasizing the navigation and making detailed content easy to find would really be key.

These are just some first few thoughts, providing feedback on your site has been a "to-do list" item for me since you posted but honestly 2/3 of my to do list never sees any action so, life gets the better of me sometimes I guess...

 

[mcordelia]

Oh, one more thing: pictures and graphs are really helpful when discussing difficult concepts like BB for example. Nobody has drawn a picture with "fake" BB coating a fish tank over the course of the cycling process, and I think that's too bad. In my head, it's something like: day 1 - stock photo of empty fish tank with decor and substrate. Day 15 - blue "bacteria" coat the filter and substrate and decor. Day 25 - blue and red bacteria coat the filter and substrate and decor. Illustrates that there's two types of bacteria, one shows up before the other, and they don't live in the water. I think the whole idea of "bacteria" is really abstract for most people, so I think there's a benefit of actually drawing it in in a totally fake way to illustrate what happens. "This is what it would look like if it wasn't invisible".

 

[mcordelia]

Sorry I'm spamming you now but one final idea on the visualizations: another key concept is the effects of hardness. Softwater fish in hard water: draw black dots where the kidneys are theoretically to show mineral accumulation. Hardwater fish in soft water: harder to draw, but make it look bloated or make the illustration such that there are "dots" in both the water and the fish,and the hardwater fish has too few dots relative to it's healthy compadres, whereas the softwater fish in hard water has too many dots...

 

[AbbeysDad]

Last Bump....262 views and very few takers.

MJV Aquatics / MJV Aquatics Blog