Teenagers and me...

You could add a fun multiple choice quiz, to see if they really are teenagers eg:- 1) Trainers should be acidic enough to render other house dwellers A) Senseless B) Silent C) Praying for good weather so they can camp outside 2) Tooth brushes are for A) Keeping in their packets to add maximum value B) Wetting at the optimum time C) Swapping for your parents, after you've removed the dirt from the base of your trainers 3) Jeans, hoody's, and rude or offensive t-shirts should be able to accommodate which of the following A) Four average sized infant school children B) Your mate when he's grounded C) Dismembered bits of your moralistic parents for later disposal 4) Please give the meaning for the following phrases A)Uhhhhhhhgggggggggggggggg B)Uaaaaaaarrrrrrrrhhhhkkkkk C)Larrrrrrrrterrrrrrrrrr 5) Please choose the most suitable end to this sentence Aftershave should be smelt from- A) Ten feet B) Half a mile C) From out side the car I'm sitting in for at least a twenty mile radius 6) Accepting morals are A) A new group B) Something rude C) As painful as having the plug cut off my PS2

Number four int multiple choice

Perhaps it's written by a teenager

Oooh, I think it's brill! Ta Lexy :-)

Hi Andrea - I'm a teenager and I liked the site - it definately looks like it's just for teens and the colouring is cool. The only thing I can think of to change about it is to make it more spaced out and maybe make the font sizes for the titles a bit bigger, because for some reason that stuff was bugging me when I looked at it. But apart from that, it's great! Good job :) I'm off to go check it out a bit more . . .

Thanks for that, Caz. Er...whaddya mean, precisely, by spaced out? As in mushrooms, or more space on front page? Font sizes bigger, eh? You mean in the 'Look For' box? Or the text in general? Or the titles of the submitted pieces (although they're quite large already)? Ta for your input - am most grateful :-)

Hi again Andrea! I just went and created an account on the site, it's so cool how you get your own page and everything! And you can change the background and stuff, very groovy. I meant spaced out like having more space, not like 'shrooms, although that is a neat idea! The text size thing I meant for the titles of all the little sections and things, but actually now that I've been on the site more the size doesn't bother me, I think it must just be something you get used to. Sorry for not being more specific! If you wanna be really cool by the way, you could use the alternate spelling of 'cool' which is 'kewl' in the text. It's very up to date!

Oooh, bloody hell! Goin' a bit far, that :-) Glad you approve, though - I'll...er...make more space - what d'you think could go? 'Also published'?

Not "Kewell", though, unless you want to upset everyone who's not from Leeds. d.beswetherick.

Looks great to me, Andrea, but then again my teenage years a distant memory too ;o) I'm sure that YUK will thrive - as it deserves to - but CUK or TUK might be a more appealing short form ;O) If you can think of a way of extending it to TUCK – (Teeage Uk Childen's .. ermmmm.. yes, well... that explains it then... Answers on a postcard to..... Young UKAuthors etc.

Yes, the manga's a great idea! Personally, as a teenager I didn't like anything that seemed to be consciously 'aimed' at me - I think that's an annoyance I've always had and still have with the idea that I can be lumped into a marketable category. But then, I was an ultra-wary adolescent, and I don't think you overdo the 'young' theme at all.

Thanks guys, that's MOST encouraging. And it's no longer YUK, Mykle, just plain ol' Young UKAuthors. Domain name's now been changed too. I'm not particularly trying to 'aim' at teenagers, more give 'em their own space away from the main site and all us boring oldies wot enjoy, shock, horror, GARDENING and can't stand Eminem (actually, I think he's brill :-)) Ta again...er...anymore?