Re:Personal site (URL flux) Feedback appreciated
by abossy on Thursday May 14, 2009 @02:03PM
(#609267)
My first impression is that the design is NOT clean. Clean, to me, can entail a large amount of content organized in a neat and easy-to-read way. Your design is simple, which is good, but a bit cluttered. My suggestions to you:
1. There are two lines that comprise the category links in the header and the two lines are arbitrarily aligned. They're off-center and don't look good adjacent to one another.
2. The thin scrollbars are cute, but they're a usability hassle; make them thicker so I don't have to pinpoint my clicks.
3. The logo is simple, which I like. I would suggest making it slightly thicker or somehow more prominent.
I second Kyro's second and third points. I thought perhaps these problems were due to Chrome, but the site looks identical to me in FF3.
Check out popurls and alltop for a super-clean design for a similar aggregator. Keep up the good work!
Re:Personal site (URL flux) Feedback appreciated
by themichael on Thursday May 14, 2009 @12:28PM
(#609071)
Thanks for the comments.
- Your site is too wide. On my 15" powerbook, with safari 4 maximized, there's still horizontal scroll.
- Speaking of scroll, the individual scroll bars for each column seem to run over some of the text.
- The text is a bit hard to read, and everything looks a bit cluttered. I can't browse the headlines in comfort.
- I'm not quite sure how your stories are ranked or organized. Right now, it just looks like a random assortment of stories scattered all over the screen. There's no metric for me to rate the stories, not even a continuous time line.
Clean design overall. Nice job.
EDIT: Ah, I had to scroll down to find that the different columns were from different sources. I'd suggest moving the source names up to the top.