Congratulations to our latest winner,
Robyn Hoelker-Wright! 

Robyn is the owner of The Winners Club, a contest and sweepstakes website. And now she is a member of our Winners Club!


Robyn's entry is the winner of the Computer Books Online Tag-Line Contest.
We really liked her idea about identifying beginner, intermediate, and advanced books. And her tagline, "The TechKnowledgy Bookshelf".

Robyn chose Building Your Own PC, Ninth Edition, by Arnie Lee for her prize.

Be sure to check out Robyn's site, The Winners Club,  for lots of contests and sweepstakes to enter!

From Robyn --

I'm the owner of a company called The Winners Club at www.thewinnersclub. net
I am lucky enough to be able to work from a home office so I can be at home with my 4 year old son, who is becoming a bit of a computer geek in his own right even!

I am the webmaster along with wearing many other hats at the company. The site was designed with FrontPage98. I've been doing personal pages for several years now and doing it all manually and just recently upgraded to FP when I started this site. So my main interests in computers right now is web site development, all facets.

I have a lot of people asking me about how to design websites, I always recommend the Dummies series books for this, they are easy to understand for beginners and still extremely helpful for folks who have been at it a while even. I especially like HTML4 for Dummies Quick Reference.

The book I selected though is just for me. Thought I would try my hand and building my own PC this time as my current system is getting to be a bit of a dinosaur, at least for my needs.

Thanks again for the prize! I'm sure I will enjoy it!

We hope you do, Robyn!

Contest Results:

Taglines:

We had a really hard time with this one!  There were so many great ideas! Here's a few --

The Folks To Come To Before You Get In Trouble
The Tech-Biz Whiz (How about The Tech-Whiz Biz?)
The Tech Know-How Wow! Guys
Computer Book Online - Where we have the Knowledge you are looking for.
Your Tech-Knowledge e-store
Tech-Knowledge for non-techies!
Tech-Knowledge Traders
Your One Stop Tech-Know Shop!
Where Tech-Knowledge is Power
Computer Books Online "The TEch-XPERTS of the computer world

Uhh..Don't call us, we'll call you...
THE KNOW-IT-ALLS OF THE NET
We're NOT Microsoft
Win more fast computers !

Improvements:

more contests!

Some things seem to be "in the eye of the beholder"...

More realistic graphics.
Moving cartoon people that speak to and interact with me
More modern graphics- ditch the cartoons!

I like the use of cartoons. Too often these sites are sterile and visually daunting to people who are new and a little timid about technology. They are comming to you for help, knowledge, answers, a varity of reasons. Your site with the use of cartoons, says.."Welcome, You're among friends. Use this. Have one or two toons on each page to add color, interest and warmth.

I do like bright colors
Colors brighter
More vibrant colors
Warmer colors would be nice.

Keep the fast loading pages
Faster loading pages
Speed! I hate when it takes forever to search for a book
Lose some graphics and speed up the loadtimes
Split the tables into multiple tables for faster loading times.
(actually, speed was probably mentioned more than anything. We'll work on it)


It's OK!
Nothing really, the site is brill
Don't change it!!
(free books for these people)

I hate white
I hate the blue column on the left.
Well there are [no offense] a lot of things you can improve. Like maybe online-games were you can play online. You could also have books you can read and download from your computer. Such as thrillers, mysteries and, bedtime books.
(charge these guys extra)

It would be helpful to me if you could put the price and a short description

Maybe adding a "Subject" field to your "Search By" options?

Top ten list?

Don't write text in blue; the eye can't focus on blue. Don't use green for text unless it's a hyperlink. Otherwise, it's nice and clean. (did you say blue?)

A newsletter to send via email to let people know when the site is updated

How about a page with a few computer tips?

The more info you get about a book, the better. When browsing in a real bookstore for computer books I always flip through them and look at the table of contents and a few excerpts from different chapters (beginning, middle and end, generally) to get a feel for the style and the level of information, as well as to find out how far the book takes you and what it assumes you know. Obviously this is harder online, but online you have the advantage of a much better selection. So some approximation of this - full table of contents and a few excerpts as well as a statement of what it assumes you know and where it takes you.... THAT would be about perfect to me. :) Maybe a lot to ask tho.

More emphasis on used books


Our favorites...
How about having better prize like a microphone.
Seeing my name on your tax information page

Comments:

Thank you for asking my opinion. Kind of got a kick out of it. Keep up the good work
Wonderful site!
Enjoyed my stay!
Yeah, I bet you love comments
Thanks for the chance to win at one of my favorite sites!
I love comments too, but I don't have any.
You are wise to ask we consumers what we need. Good fortune to you.
Thanks for the chance to win at one of my favorite sites!
You love comments? Well, I love winning free stuff. :)
Computers make the earth move (we'll know for sure on Jan 1, 2000!)
Great contest!
Love your site. Easy to navigate.
Pick me! Pick me! I've had a bad week and deserve a break.


Our favorites:
how about getting me a free microphone.
I need a pentium 2 processor !
Find me a girl.


Favorite Subject:

A lot of you said Web Site Development
E-Commerce
Internet
Just about every kind of programming
Graphics, 3D, animation
Research
Building, upgrading, repairing
what ever I what to know more about -- everything
Tips on finding reference material quickly. esp. wholesalers,etc.
I love roll playing games

Our Favorites..
microphones and using the internet
I interested in a Pentium 2 300 or 400 Mhz !
cute programmers


Favorite Series, Author, Publisher:

Once again, "Dummies" win by far!

McGraw-Hill
Que
O'Reilly
Sams
Prentice Hall


David Siegel
Jack Davis
Deke McClelland

Our Favorites..
not in computer books
willing to read anybodys opinions
Steven King (wrong website!)
why, no, there are not.


We'd like to thank everyone who took the time to enter. And congratulations to our winner, Robyn Hoelker-Wright!

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