heels4men.org - Page 2

Tech · 23rd January 2004, 01:47

Hi again all...

OK Hopefully now I have the design of Heels4men.org nailed down, the rest of the content will start appearing pretty quickly...

I have 1 Major question to ask all of you...

I currently have 11 polls running, and I want to know what you think of them and would you like to see any more polls posted?

If so what questions might you want to see?

Nobody has ever actually commented on the polls so I just want to see if it is on target and that everybody is fine with it..

http://www.heels4men.org/market-research/index.htm

PS... onyourtoes... The issue of using relative font sizes instead of fixed font sizes in the css files has been resolved and the site has been css validated...

genebujold · 23rd January 2004, 09:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richie

Hi again all...

I have 1 Major question to ask all of you...

I currently have 11 polls running, and I want to know what you think of them and would you like to see any more polls posted?

If so what questions might you want to see?

Nobody has ever actually commented on the polls so I just want to see if it is on target and that everybody is fine with it..

http://www.heels4men.org/market-research/index.htm

Ok, Ritchie, I'm a statistician, so... grab your seatbelt, 'cause here goes!

1. Each of the polls is actually a mini-poll of just one question. Personal opinion here, but I would think a single poll of all eleven questions, followed by the results might be better. Unless you plan on winding up with fifty or so questions, then it might be good to break them out into different categories. It would also force people to answer all 11 questions, as I believe you're trying to tie some responses to others so that you might answer questions like, "the median between women who like seeing men wear heels and those who don't falls at the 43rd percentile, whereas for men it's at the 67th percentile."

By the way - great job on providing both numbers of responses as well as percentage of total for each question asked!

2. It might be nice (and make more sense) to look at the results broken down by both sex (Are you a male or female wearer?) and age (Age at time of Vote). That way we wouldn't be lumping together summary results like shoe size when there will clearly be a bimodal separation of the data. Then again, your slide bar representation does wonders to reflect all the data as well as bimodality, so, you don't need to break it down. But it would help to differentiate the overlap areas (men and women who both wear size 9 women's, for example), as well as questions like "what do you think of heels on men?" This response will also be bimodal between men and women.

3. For questions designed to pattern a range of responses (Heels in Public, Heels on Men, etc.), it's become common practice to standardize on a 5-answer spread, for several reasons. First, more than that and people have a difficult time deciding between answers (too much differentiation). Less than that, and there's not enough fidelity in the result to draw relatively accurate conclusions.

Consider using the 5-answer spread for other questions, too, like "Would you buy foot training equipment @ Heels4men.org?"

The answers could be:

1. Absolutely not
2. Probably not
3. Maybe
4. Probably
5. Definately - yes

This way, you can better mensurate these results with other 5-answer spreads.

As for the rest of your website, consider placing links to some high-heel stores that sell sizes other than 2 or 9 (Fashion News). Try Nordstroms, Zappos, Roamans - there are a several very good stores out there that stock to size 12, some to 13.

Shoe Review - Have you considered allowing people to ask to review a shoe themselves? They specify make and model, location purchased, size range, and provide a pic. Once that's done, others would be free to post a review as well, much like book reviews at Amazon.com and software reviews at CNET.com. Limit it to 100 words or less and 10 posts per shoe to minimize file storage.

You've done a great job with the site overall! A few finishing touches, and it will be very nice.

Bubba136 · 23rd January 2004, 15:25

I agree with gene - "You've done a great job with the site". And, I'm sure it will be even better after adopting some of his suggestions. :D

Tech · 27th June 2005, 01:33

Hi All

Due to the recent up/down of the heels4men.org website and the changes that have taken place over the last 12 months I thought it might be better to start a thread here to:

:: Keep you all up to date on the progress.
:: Answer questions that you might have.
:: Advertise for help if needed.

Current Website Status...
**********************
The previous website design is currently being re-implemented 1 section at a time and a proper gallery is being put in place. The new gallery has now been installed and is now having its design modified to match the website and will allow users to create their own account and upload their own images to their own galleries similar to how JeffB does it.

For more info on how our gallery will work see http://www.4images.net

The find-a-friend section can either go 2 ways.....
Either we scrap it for good, or if any PHP programmers are available to do the application for free then we will re-instate it and make it available.
I currently dont have the skills required to programme such an application in PHP/MySQL so am not able to develop it alone.

If anybody has any questions at all then please post them here and I will do my best to reply quickly.

Regards
Richie

Firefox · 27th June 2005, 02:13

I think you are better off keeping a basic site going, even on a free host, while you are searching for the perfect solution or better hosting/software. You can see quite a few people were asking where your site was, which shows they are disappointed it vanished completely while you were researching improvements.

Tech · 27th June 2005, 02:19

Hi FF

Indeed there was a time when I actually removed the site completely, this was nothing to do with the hosting because I host the website myself as I run my own Hosting company but was more a choice to "take it down until I could decide what to do with it"

Now I have put it back up again but will re-open sections when they are ready rather than an entire website thats not finished.

Thanks again
Richie

asdf174 · 27th June 2005, 18:51

I agree with Firefox.

Tech · 14th August 2005, 21:12

Hi All

Just to let you all know that the heels4men.org site is now back in action and has all sections up and running.

We would however appreciate all of your input and feedback as some of the sections of our website will reply on readers contributions, wives letters etc etc

If anybody has anything to contribute then please do let us know by preferably posting it through our website.

Many Thanks
Richie

asdf174 · 15th August 2005, 19:10

Cool! I'll have to check it out.

Firefox · 15th August 2005, 22:10

Hi Richie

Well I'm glad to see the site is back up again. It looks better than ever!

I notice there is a section for some pics from me. I can't remember if I was a member or not, and if so, what was my password etc. I'll probably just sign up again. I will try to post some pics of me. One of the reasons I didn't contribute too much before was that the site seemed to keep changing around and I wasn't sure where it was going or if it was here to stay.