Your opinions please - but be gentle!

[themistral]

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! 

[moberemk]

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.

[themistral]

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?

[moberemk]

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.

[charliepage]

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.

[moberemk]

Firefox 2.0.0.8 here too, actually.

[themistral]

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! 

[The Little Guy]

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)