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[Concept Feedback]

Hi All,

 

I just launched a new site, www.ConceptFeedback.com, and would like to get some feedback of my own.

 

1. Would you use it?

2. What do you think of the layout and design?

3. Any suggestions on how to make it better?

 

Thanks!!

Andrew

[nrg_alpha]

Here are my thoughts:

 

-'Be the first, register for free now!' This gives me the impression that there are no others registered.. From what I have read in marketing books, people don't like being the first...it denotes that the place is devoid of membership (so why participate alone?). I would axe the Be the first part. Besides, given the 'Recent Activity' and 'Active Concepts' column , the place doesn't look to be 'membershipless' anyway.

 

- I noticed that you have the home link in the footer.. perhaps putting all the top menu links in there (to serve as a dual navigation system)? That way, if people have to scroll to the bottom of the page, they can navigate from there if they prefer.

 

- Related to that previous point, I'm wondering if having a nice 'back to top' link / icon placed strategically throughout the page that allows people to jump back up without needing to scroll? Just an added touch of convenience IMO.

 

- From an SEO standpoint, you have some <h2> tags, but there is no <h1> tag? I would pick the most important 'headline-like' informative piece on the page and make that an h1... Also, the meta 'keyword' tag is not useful to today's search engines.

 

- From a validation standpoint, you are oh-so-close! (simple fix, as it simply involves declaring more than one identical ID on the page). Not so close with the css however.

 

- While the home page size of 285.5K is not terrible, the amount of http requests (51) could stand to be improved (then again, I suspect this is probably largely due to all the thumbnails and whatnot (in which case I'm not too sure how to reduce the http requests on those). but graphics like:

http://www.conceptfeedback.com/local/styles/icons/001_15small.png, http://www.conceptfeedback.com/local/styles/icons/001_50small.png etc.. could definitely make use of a css sprite sheet instead.

 

Further notes on optimizations..

- Your home page has 4 javascripts totalling 92.3K.. I'm wondering if it is possible to merge / minify some. Using Yslow, there is a tools tab with such functionality (for minifying that is).

- Passing the home page through smushit! (another tool in the Yslow tab) shaved off ~ 5.04 KB..So peraphs checking all your pages and optimizing your images can help reduce unecessary bandwidth.

- If you have server access (or your server allows application level gzipping), you may want to consider gzipping your document, css and such...

 

 

Overall, the site looks pretty clean and organized. I like it.

I don't really have much to say from a design / visual standpoint to be honest. Looks really good

[j3n]

I think the site looks awesome!  ... And relatively easy to navigate.

 

A couple of minor suggestions:

 

- I would make more visible mouse over effects for the main navigation menu.  I see there are black highlights, but they are pretty much useless, since it is not at all visible.  Maybe make the font a different color on mouseover? 

 

- For ease of browsing through the active concepts, maybe in the box with 'number of votes', include the average rating stars.

 

Just a thought...

 

 

 

 

[Axeia]

http://www.conceptfeedback.com/account/login/

Labels are there, but no for="" attribute set to the associated form element, so no easy clicking the label and bringing focus to the input field (or at least that's the behavior of most browsers)

 

Personally I don't like the :hover taking up the top line as well and it looks strange on http://www.conceptfeedback.com/how-it-works/ when you have over the current page menu link... it's 1px to high.

 

nrg_alpha already mentioned the rest.