ryland22 Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 We recently revamped our site to make it more obvious how to use it. Previously users were unclear how to "engage" - I don't want to give too much away. Would love for any feedback! The site is: http://www.RantRally.com Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/260845-need-feedback-on-usability/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 I believe you are limiting yourself by using the word rant, something related to the words "audio comment" may work better. I noticed when my search crawler hit your page that the audio comments do not have their own permalinks, (a link leading to a page with just that audio file). I believe if you linked your titles to the audio's it can brink you more traffic and searchable. To make my point clearer, you can have links similar to these. Ellen: TickTubes kill 90% of ticks Ellen: US lyme disease numbers Ellen: Lyme disease awareness In your sidebar you show popular rants that are nice titles, but the links take you to the latest rants with that link now on top. Social Media Week 2012 This is yet another good reason to make each rant have a permanent location. I have no idea why people still use the www in their domains, it's better to redirect all www's to the non www domain. Having that www. was a thing of the past. http://fragments.turtlemeat.com/www-domain-name-configuration.php One more thing, you are using <meta property= and not the proper <meta name= to get the accurate information of what your website is about. Use <meta name= for your website data, and the open graph <meta property= for each of your pages data Look here for more what you should fix. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rantrally.com%2Fproject%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/260845-need-feedback-on-usability/#findComment-1337058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryland22 Posted April 14, 2012 Author Share Posted April 14, 2012 Thanks for the feedback! We will definitely fix the meta tag issue. As far as having a single rant on a page - we tried that but found that we didn't have content to go beneath it. The page ended up looking empty without more rants below the 'featured' rant. Do you have any suggestions as to how you would structure a single rant page? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/260845-need-feedback-on-usability/#findComment-1337232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 If did the single page for the rant, you could display just that users other rants below it. Some things you can add to the single pages could be those embed codes (which need to be shifted to the right more), views, ratings, text comments or even rant comments. Or when you get a lot more rants there, similar subject rants as suggestions. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/260845-need-feedback-on-usability/#findComment-1337252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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