Hello admins,

Sajha is a WONDERFUL place to meet all sorts of Nepali people, its got a great vibe, the experience of interacting with so many interesting people is "outta this world".

However, I am not particularly pleased with some of the visual elements. I acknowledge it isnt easy to plan out and make a website and have absolutely no right to criticize your hard work(s).

Ok I'll stop beating around the bush. I HATE THE ADVERTISEMENTS!! :) As soon as i type sajha.com I am suddenly visually assaulted by a barrage of flashy text thingies telling me to 'Fly to Nepal','call using [insert company here]'s phone cards','send money',study in UK??????' and offcourse the ever present staunch 'stana card'. It is my personal opinion that these flashies degrade the userfriendliness of sajha (however some silly piece of green floating text is not going to stop me from using it :D:).

ADs, and then LINKS! The home page could well be a chain plated armor because of so many links on it. While of the opinion; more is better, our case here seems a little too extreme :D

/end_rant

Those are the problems I have presented you with. Here are some possible suggestions (please add to this list: that was the whole point of my rant).

1. The revenue generated using advertisements must offcourse be of a substantial amount, especially considering it on a website as popular as sajha, but maybe we could reduce the number of visible ads from 13, to say 5, or some other solid number? And keep the ads on a rotating basis so everytime a user clicks a link, theres a different ad there. Companies are happy ure advertising them, users are happy because less eyesore is always a good thing.

2. The forum links could be formatted and organized (maybe using DHTML menus? (or something interactive/in the background like AJAX technology?) . If it was upto me Id get rid of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th columns entirely. I NEVER use anything in these columns (except when sajha chat was a link in the 2nd column). The 3rd column (forum) is what I'm interested in when I type www.sajha.com and thats the column I goto 98% of the time.

But again, these are just suggestions, at your disposal. I'm not blaming you guys for anything, if infact, i might say you have done an absolutely brilliant job of keeping the site running. I know there must be millions of background processes that keep this site together and its hard alone to make this work let alone shape how it looks, but maybe thats something you guys could keep on your To-Do list? I would be much obliged to help where I could. And offcourse everyone feel free to add your constructive criticism here.

PS. I'm using Google Chrome, so the text box that I have access to when typing a new thread (it said "if you can't see text box, click here') apparently doesnt parse any formatting elements. I would love to see this corrected since I'm a huge Chrome fan, and would prefer not to download firefox just to view one website. IE sucks straight outta the box (too slow). Thanks!

Edit: I HAD to format this using IE :(