themistral Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Hi guys, I consider myself a developer rather than a designer, but I do both. Your opinions of www.rentanyspace.net would be appreciated, although I tend to react best to constructive critism! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74732-your-opinions-please-but-be-gentle/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
moberemk Posted October 25, 2007 Share Posted October 25, 2007 Problem 1 : On page load, your scrolling news applet managed to freeze my browser. That's a very big first-impression problem. Problem 2 : Purple. Oh so very much purple. It's a hard color to use in a site design effectively, and frankly it doesn't really fit the bill here. Problem 3 : Login form is big; register link is small. This should be the other way around for something like this: make it clear and easy to register. Problem 4 : It took quite a bit of reading to figure out what the site was about. The central point, the big "RESERVED" image, didn't help matters, and just confused me. It's a good start, but it has several problems with it. I won't get into the concept here, though. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74732-your-opinions-please-but-be-gentle/#findComment-378109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
themistral Posted October 25, 2007 Author Share Posted October 25, 2007 Thanks for your time moberemk! 1. Interesting about the applet - I will look into that! 2. All my sites end up being a bit blue so I wanted something different - but I take your point about purple - I quite like it but if it makes the site a turnoff to others, then I feel a re-think may be in order! 3. That may be why I haven't had a lot of registrations! 4. Will look to see if there are any better images and check my wording! Any other comments? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74732-your-opinions-please-but-be-gentle/#findComment-378155 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moberemk Posted October 26, 2007 Share Posted October 26, 2007 Add a "Latest spaces box", maybe; and add some basic geolocation code. One thing you could do is see if you can track back the region of the browser and put a little confirmation box that asks to confirm, so that the latest list is relevant to the user. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74732-your-opinions-please-but-be-gentle/#findComment-378346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
charliepage Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 I'm curious what browser you use moberemk? If it was Firefox or not. I haven't tried it on others but on v2.0.0.8 of Firefox I have no problems with the news applet loading. (of course a temporary slowdown for my Java to load) I do agree with moberemk about figuring what the site is about. Reading the text now, I understand it, I guess just that the image stood out (as they always do) and wasn't really self-explanatory. But nothing hard to fix. Overall it's nice. I'm not a huge fan of purple but I think it's used very well. Design wise it is laid out well, it's nice. I also agree with moberemk regarding a "Latest Spaces" box, definately a good idea. But I would expand on that and also suggest a links to a simple listing of Spaces (by page), it would show the details such as where. You could link to it on the "For Rent" page. I think that's about it, looking good so far. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74732-your-opinions-please-but-be-gentle/#findComment-378987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
moberemk Posted October 27, 2007 Share Posted October 27, 2007 Firefox 2.0.0.8 here too, actually. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74732-your-opinions-please-but-be-gentle/#findComment-379220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
themistral Posted October 28, 2007 Author Share Posted October 28, 2007 Thank you very much for taking the time to look over the site for me guys! I am going to re-jig the wording and look for a better image to use. I like the idea about making the content relevant to the user! I still like the purple, but I may consider changing it...we'll see! Thanks for the feedback! Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74732-your-opinions-please-but-be-gentle/#findComment-380006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted October 28, 2007 Share Posted October 28, 2007 I would suggest making your nav background images one image instead of two images, then just use background-position to reposition them when the mouse hovers... no javascript needed, and only need to load one image instead of 2 image 5 times (10 images) Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/74732-your-opinions-please-but-be-gentle/#findComment-380051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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