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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 :)

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...

 

 

 

 

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.

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