Hey, I tried to upload my project but got hard rejection i came here and asked about why and worked so hard and so much time working on this project imoroving every aspect possible, but i’m afraid of same hard rejection and not being able to upload the same project, so anyone can offer help to review the project and give me some feedback before going to the next step? i’ll be appreciated forever cause i put so much time and effort on this. thanks!
Share the demo link/preview here
email: admin@admin.com
password: 11223344xx
I added the following upgrades:
- Installer to help with the installation process.
- Custom error pages.
- Charts inside the dashboard to follow up with daily views and registered users (i changed the views system to record it by time).
- Add taxonomy system and linked it with mangas so admin can create mangas types and status and named it whatever he want.
- I added a drag and place system to upload chapters and give the uploader the control to rearrange or delete specific images.
- Uploader still can upload a zip file with images in order or zip file with folders as chapters numbers.
- Added a multiselect option to manga genres like wordpress system.
- Adding a themes system and adding a default theme, themes can be controlled from admin panel.
- Adding a slider to the theme and can be deactivated from the admin panel.
- Adding a light/dark switcher with main scheme controller in theme settings in admin panel.
- Adding a SoftDelete to models like mangas, users and pages.
- Adding Ads controller system with default ads in home, manga, manga list and chapter pages (Ads with type banner is trackable with views tracker).
- Adding SEO settings, admin can edit page titles and descriptions with placeholders like :title and more.
- Uploading settings with the ability to control in what extension images should be uploaded and the quality (1 - 100).
- Improvement on chapter page and adding the ability to slide and scroll on clicking on the images to help the reader.
- Protection from spamming forms on both backend, frontend. Now the button is disabled and a loader appears on button until the form submit is done.
- Improvements on the Arabic language and add the ability to change the main website language from site settings.
- Adding the ability to swap between sendmail or SMTP and change all data from admin panel directly.
- more and more improvements in code and a lot more in design.
You need better design. With this, you will get a rejection. ( it doesn’t matter how good the coding is )
@ki-themes I’m building a whole new dashboard with a new layout different from the main layout, but the main design is good why i need to change it? and the system contains a themes options so anyone can create his own theme or edit the main one
It’s not.
@ki-themes we are literally talking about manga website, what should i implement to be “good” enough, i made my research went into every single wordpress theme, and cms for manga ever made! mine is the best so far!
this is how the one being sold on codecanyon looks like
like at this point i don’t know what to say. it’s not a blog, it’s not just a CMS, it’s a “MANGA” CMS, so the design is made for “MANGA” Reading.
I have literally more than 4 people wanna buy it and move to it from wordpress most popular themes ever made for this, no one literally one told me anything about the design all was a positive reviews and i’m just telling them to wait for codecanyon like at this point i don’t really know if i should even consider trying again not just making my own website for selling it.
I’m not sure the item on CC, it may be an old item but if you’re thinking that yours is the best, you are mistaken. As said, the design is not good enough and you will need one, too, to get approval ( I’m not talking about the coding )
The demo site is not appealing to me as well as to the reviewer, that’s why it’s rejected. If you can’t see the design issues, just take a break for couple of weeks and go back to check the item again.
If you still can’t figure out the problem, best for you to hire a designer to get a better one.
I don’t have too many issues with the design myself. It’s actually quite fair compared to similar websites out there (I’m well acquainted with them lol). Since you have themes, I would definitely add some additional starter themes, at least one with more color.
That all said, this page is a mess and I would urge you to redesign it completely: https://iimanga.com/manga/blade-of-shadows
For PHP scripts, the barrier to entry is lower than usual in terms of design. I wouldn’t expect a PHP script to match the quality of an average theme from ThemeForest. However, for a public-facing web app like this, you’re going to at least want a clean design which is very easy to navigate and read.
- Redo the page I linked above. It’s way too messy. Everything else looks fairly clean.
- I also disagree with hiding the chapters list behind a tab for this kind of website.
- Consider redesigning your language selector to be a dropdown with country flags.
- The genres section in your search widget is a bit extreme, consider reworking it.
- The ad slots make your live demo look pretty bad. Disable them if you can’t fix it.
- Get rid of the smooth animated scrolling when clicking on manga sheets.
- Why do you not show the number of times a manga has been favorited across the website? User curation is powerful, there should be a “popular mangas” section as well.
Some websites like this are configured for a single manga. Their home page is typically just a chapter list, sometimes with pagination although they rarely do this properly in terms of SEO. I know this would get quite messy in the code, but if you could somehow introduce an option to configure the website like this, it would add to the versatility.
Also, I recently saw someone else on the forums using AI to generate fake anime-style images for their live demo. You might be able to do something similar here (with Stable Diffusion or others). It would really do wonders for your live demo because right now it looks bland.
I just noticed that your language system is using cookies.
It would be infinitely better if you used route prefixes, for example https://iimanga.com/en/ and https://iimanga.com/ar/, to serve the different versions. Paired with some hreflang tags, search engines would effortlessly index both versions of the website.
An easier alternative would be to accept a lang query parameter on each page and to set the cookie right then and there without redirecting. Search engines could then at least index the URLs with the lang parameter to serve the different versions to their respective audiences, but this poses new challenges in the duplication of content department.
@baileyherbert i’m very thankful for your replies, like finally someone knows what he is talking about not just telling yeah design is bad with 0 feedback when the design is very good in terms of UI/UX.
I’ll go for your notices one by one and i’ll make sure everything is done, I also started rebuilding the admin layout
Again i’m very thankful for you <3 and yes the one who made the images using AI for mangas was me
Just to clarify, I’m not saying @ki-themes is wrong. Having an incredible design will certainly be bonus points with any reviewer. It could certainly mean the difference between approval or rejection.
However, for this specific kind of script, it’s not the be all end all – especially now that you have a theme system. With some additional innovation and flexibility, the sort of stuff I outlined above, it will have great odds for approval.
I wouldn’t advise spending too much time on the admin panel design right now. It’s the public-facing interface that really matters here.
If you look around the internet for these sites, a lot of them have very distinct, colorful websites/themes. For the ones who only host a single manga especially, they like to match the colors to the manga. Making sure your script is flexible enough for this would be huge.
And yeah, definitely spice up those live demo images before you resubmit. I expect that presentation will play a role in the review process for this kind of script. I also know all too well the pain of ad banner slots in live demos – if you can’t get them to look good, disable them on the demo and consider posting screenshots of them instead.
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Redo the page I linked above. It’s way too messy. Everything else looks fairly clean.
- I rearranged the components in a better way like attachement, is it good enough or the whole page need to be redesigned?
- I rearranged the components in a better way like attachement, is it good enough or the whole page need to be redesigned?
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I also disagree with hiding the chapters list behind a tab for this kind of website.
- changed it already.
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Consider redesigning your language selector to be a dropdown with country flags.
- working on it.
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The genres section in your search widget is a bit extreme, consider reworking it.
- hope you can give me a better explanation, like put it in a multiselection maybe?
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The ad slots make your live demo look pretty bad. Disable them if you can’t fix it.
- I disabled it in the demo and in first setup it will be stored in database but disabled.
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Get rid of the smooth animated scrolling when clicking on manga sheets.
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Why do you not show the number of times a manga has been favorited across the website? User curation is powerful, there should be a “popular mangas” section as well.
- Done, now in the homepage there is a section for Popular today and a counter for favorites inside each manga information.
For your suggestion about single manga theme it’s very good tbh but i’m thinking of making another normal theme for the launch and make this as another product, what do you think? and thanks again.
When you think that the design is good, there’s no point to argue/discuss. You’re not ready to see your mistakes.
A good example for your eyes that you can compare: ( It’s from 2019 )
There’s a difference between polishing and updating the design. What you’re doing it is “polishing” and it won’t be good enough to get the item approval. As an experienced designer and developer, I can manage the things with free extensions and a little bit coding with free themes. The item you’re working on it still doesn’t have the quality to be good as you think.
@ki-themes can you give a look now? it’s not finished but i made a lot of theme improvements for both template and admin dashboard.
*also i hired a designer to help
Looks a bit better but still not good enough. Ping back when you’re done.
Focus on front-end first.