tcsoccerman Posted June 2, 2009 Report Posted June 2, 2009 (edited) www.askandwonder.com What do you think of this website? I'm just trying to get it as good as I can (of course), and was curious if any of you had any input. Is the looks of it good? Not sure what it is about? Poor Instructions on how to do things? Not abstract/dynamic enough? Too static? Thanks. Edited June 2, 2009 by tcsoccerman
»doc flabby Posted June 2, 2009 Report Posted June 2, 2009 (edited) Reminds me of http://www.stackoverflow.com a very useful site It needs a more obvious "ASK A QUESTION" Option i think. Graphicly the rounded corners on the questions, don't quite line up on FF3. Edited June 2, 2009 by doc flabby
tcsoccerman Posted June 2, 2009 Author Report Posted June 2, 2009 OK, good suggestion. I guess a textbox at the top of the home page would be best, which would then redirect to the "ask a question" page with more fields to fill, butthe question is already filled out. (there is a category, email, your answer field that also can be filled out. the question field will be filled with what they filled in at the home page). Now i'm just sharing my ideas with people who don't care so i'll stop. Anything else? Also, If you like it, please give me a thumbs up. HUGE traffic source.
»Lynx Posted June 3, 2009 Report Posted June 3, 2009 I like it, it's a well done website. Good job. -L
grazzhoppa Posted June 3, 2009 Report Posted June 3, 2009 (edited) Quite a nice design. Great job A few particulars: The banner background image as well as the navigation tabs on the top of the page have subtle/little color contrast.My TN-panel LCD monitor suffers from bad viewing vertical angles, so that the top of the screen is darker than it should be. What this means for your website is that I thought the banner background was a solid black-brown until I studied your site (most visitors will not spend time studying your website to pick up on subtle details).The active navigation tab vs inactive tabs are hard to distinguish with a quick view. I suggest making the border of the active tab a lighter color to make the contrast less subtle and easier to pick up on a quick glance. Make the login box a different color than the content bubbles/boxes.Here you can use subtle color contrast because the the placement-location of the login box already conveys much of the meaning that it's different from the content boxes.But having a different color entices vistors to play-with-it / sign-up, and helps emphasize returning-people to log-in. Your *asterisks on forms:Put a small note indicating that those fields are required for the form.YES there are people who don't use the internet enough to intuitively know what an *asterisk means besides a form's field Color code the category names in the content boxes/bubbles (The last piece of text at the bottom of those boxes/bubbles)At the bottom of the content boxes/bubbles:16 comments admin — Sun, 05/17/2009 - 19:28 Uncategorized Images that make the rounded corners fail at the illusion sometimes:Check out the top corners of the first content box/bubble, the one that holds the question. Example: http://www.askandwonder.com/content/would-you-rather-live-world-myth-and-dragons-etc-or-current-worldBeware, where the background stops being a solid color, as this is where your rounded corners will not look good. For open-questions / unaswered-questions, make a large visually dominant "reply/answer/comment" button on the question's page.All you have now is a bit of text: "Add a new comment". It gets lost in the rest of text inside the content box/bubble. Example: http://www.askandwonder.com/content/what-came-first-chicken-or-egg-0 Consider adding a color gradient going from left to right of the content area (which is everything below the banner & navigation).You have a small, subtle gradient already at the top of the content area.Try and see how that same gradient turned vertical and starting from the left side of the page will look. Keep your existing gradient at the same time. OR, see at the bottom of the page you have a layer of stripes (dark beige // gray // black-gray pattern). Take those layers and put them on the left side of the content area, like a border. See how that looks.Maybe try a vertical border of the following layers, from left to right (black-gray pattern // gray // dark beige // gradient). Fit this vertical border between the left-edge of the page and the start of the search/login/ads column. It'll frame the content area better, and draw attention to your advertisements too, I think. Edited June 3, 2009 by grazzhoppa
tcsoccerman Posted June 3, 2009 Author Report Posted June 3, 2009 Great suggestions, i'll take a look at every one on there. 1. Yes i know what you mean. It's important you know that this is a drupal theme that i did not make, I just edited it to my likings. The graphics on top are better than i'll ever make.Will fix tabs 2.So you suggest I change the background color of it? A good idea, but a maybe for me. 3.Of course. will fix that. 4.Another great idea. Thank you. 5.I guess those corners stand out more than I thought. will look into that too. 6.Again, a great idea. A button with "What do you think?" or "Answer" would do wonders i bet. 7.Hmmm. That's a lot to imagine. I like to keep it simple, and that sounds a little overdone. I will give the gradient a go after some more important points above and see how that looks. Thanks again for all your ideas. Greatly appreciated.
valate Posted June 4, 2009 Report Posted June 4, 2009 Wow, dude great website! I would give it a 4 out of 5. I like the graphics, but to be honest I think the text should be a completely different font. I don't know why it is just too boring... it is kinda going to drive me away from this. But the setup is perfect, graphics and colors are ok, and the idea is brilliant.
tcsoccerman Posted June 5, 2009 Author Report Posted June 5, 2009 Thanks again. Ill check out other fonts. The biggest problem is that everyone says it's great(most people), but nobody creates an account and actually comes back later.
Samapico Posted June 5, 2009 Report Posted June 5, 2009 Do you really need people to make accounts? What if you could post without being registered?
valate Posted June 5, 2009 Report Posted June 5, 2009 (edited) Yea I kinda tried, and idk what happened :x nothing ever happened... maybe just me or something but I'll try again later. Edited June 5, 2009 by valate
tcsoccerman Posted June 5, 2009 Author Report Posted June 5, 2009 Actually you can ask questions and comment without registerring. Maybe that's why nobody registers haha. It's useful when people register though because then I have an email for notifications of new comments.
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