Well, Dave's Muppet portraits of the five of you is fun to look at, but other than that...well - i'm speechless.
Not that i'm at a loss for words but rather i don't know just what it is i'm supposed to say. I'm just not "getting" the idea or seeing the point or purpose.
When one creates a website, there are three basic essential questions they should ask to ensure it's worthwhile:
1) What is the (specific) purpose?
2) Does it fill a niche that's not otherwise being met?
3) Who is it for? (and "Muppet fans" isn't a specific enough answer as i'll elaborate on)
It sure doesn't seem to be filling a niche. I don't see what it would be doing that the other websites that are presenting it doesn't. To that end, is it designed to be a portal? A one-stop shop that you can get all the content of Tough Pigs, Muppet Mindset, and Muppetcast in one click rather than visiting the seperate sites? Looking at #3, who's going to do that? Of those who check the sponsor sites regularly, are they going to actually just check the one site now as opposed to visiting the others or would the very people who might be expected to check out the site now regularly look at FOUR different sites each day rather than three expecting there to be stuff on the original sites not on the new one? Maybe that might be better for the more casual fan that doesn't check Muppet sites on a regular basis but the people who tend to frequent such sites usually are devoted regular customers.
Muppet Mindset definately filled a spot that wasn't fully being met when it debuted. This new site however, just seems ill-defined, unnecessary, and to be quite honest it comes across as the five people behind it giving themselves a public pat on the back and nothing else. (I'm not saying that's the intent but that's how it comes across). It almost seems that by highlighting those sites it almost sets up a little bit of a webmaster clique saying THESE are the Muppet Fans and anything else that might be out there (i.e. muppetcentral) is not.
It just comes across as an ego project. I hope that's not really the case as i respect and generally trust the judgement of the five people involved. Please know i'm offering this criticism as a friend so you can know how it's coming across on the viewers' end and if there's some more clear goal or niche you have in mind, maybe it should be better stated with the unveil. Any site that has a good answer to the above three questions has my full support but right now, i have no idea at all what i'd be supporting.
I wish you the best of luck in whatever you're trying to do. I just don't quite understand what it is you *are* trying to do and i'm not even all that sure if the people putting it together actually fully thought that out themselves.
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