First website, tailored to IT ppl, could you please review/s
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First website, tailored to IT ppl, could you please review/s
Hey all,
Me and a buddy made this website, our first public website, and was hoping to get reviews and/or suggestions on it. The site is http://www.TechiNews.com, basically a simple, easy to use site that collects various technology news sites together. We were so tired of going through so many sites, wading through popups and flash videos just to get to our favorite news.
Let me know what you think, and I hope you like it!
Me and a buddy made this website, our first public website, and was hoping to get reviews and/or suggestions on it. The site is http://www.TechiNews.com, basically a simple, easy to use site that collects various technology news sites together. We were so tired of going through so many sites, wading through popups and flash videos just to get to our favorite news.
Let me know what you think, and I hope you like it!
Re: First website, tailored to IT ppl, could you please review/s
Too many adverts. I'll stick with Slashdot.
Re: First website, tailored to IT ppl, could you please review/s
onion2k wrote:Too many adverts. I'll stick with Slashdot.
Thanks for looking at it and giving your opinion. Do you think it would be better with one image ad on the side like slashdot? Did you like the rest of the functionality like the news/publisher tags?
Thanks again!
Re: First website, tailored to IT ppl, could you please review/s
I don't know if you've reduced the number or changed the type of ads, but I don't find it too much. What I do find too much of is text. When I first opened the page I was hit with a wall of text. Cut the amount of text associated with each article in half. Add some whitespace around them as well. The About Us/Contact boxes are not lining up properly in OS X FF3.5. They look like this:
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+----------+
| About Us |
+----------+------------+
| Contact Us |
+------------+Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
Re: First website, tailored to IT ppl, could you please review/s
pickle wrote:I don't know if you've reduced the number or changed the type of ads, but I don't find it too much. What I do find too much of is text. When I first opened the page I was hit with a wall of text. Cut the amount of text associated with each article in half. Add some whitespace around them as well. The About Us/Contact boxes are not lining up properly in OS X FF3.5. They look like this:
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+----------+ | About Us | +----------+------------+ | Contact Us | +------------+
Thanks for the reply pickle. We have turned the side ad into a image ad to reduce the amount of text on the page like you were referring to. But when you actually click on a video, the text ads will stay there. I agree with you on the text, i'll play around with reducing the amount of summary per news/video.
Also the boxes were meant to be diagonal, that wasn't a mistake, or browser mess up
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1) link color should be a little darker IMO
2) Top navigation link color doesn't make enough contract (maybe white?)
Active item is not highlighted.
3) Pagination links and selected item color should be swapped to be the same as in rest of the page: links - blue, text - black.
Pagination links should be larger, it's hard to click on them.
Next page, Previous page links are missing (I prefer using them than clicking on a numbers)
4) "Show/Hide ..." animation is to slow
2) Top navigation link color doesn't make enough contract (maybe white?)
Active item is not highlighted.
3) Pagination links and selected item color should be swapped to be the same as in rest of the page: links - blue, text - black.
Pagination links should be larger, it's hard to click on them.
Next page, Previous page links are missing (I prefer using them than clicking on a numbers)
4) "Show/Hide ..." animation is to slow
Re: First website, tailored to IT ppl, could you please review/s
kaszu wrote:1) link color should be a little darker IMO
2) Top navigation link color doesn't make enough contract (maybe white?)
Active item is not highlighted.
3) Pagination links and selected item color should be swapped to be the same as in rest of the page: links - blue, text - black.
Pagination links should be larger, it's hard to click on them.
Next page, Previous page links are missing (I prefer using them than clicking on a numbers)
4) "Show/Hide ..." animation is to slow
Thanks for the review kaszu.
I wanted the site to be a little brighter thats why the link colors are like that.
Good call on the highlighted category, definitely put that in.
I kept the page changer black because there was too much blue in that section, this way it has some contrast. Agree with the page changers size, making that bigger, and adding <prev next>
I kind of like the slow animation, but its a little too slow, especially if you click on it often, so we will speed it up by 25% and see how that looks.
Re: First website, tailored to IT ppl, could you please review/s
5) When I click on a tag (or publisher) it takes from 1 to 3 seconds before content changes, some indicator that something is happening would be better
6) In the ajax response I saw this
That's bad.
7) In logo "n" is larger than rest letters
6) In the ajax response I saw this
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onClick='changeTagPage("publisher", 9, "Ars Technica");' class='page-numbers' style='margin-left:5px;'>9</span><span id='publisher_top_10' onClick='changeTagPage("publisher", 10, "Ars Technica");'7) In logo "n" is larger than rest letters
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The site looks "old", and I can see why, when looking at the code... it's all tables! Too many tables!
Bring in some soft gradients, and make it scalable, and definitely, get rid of the tables!
Bring in some soft gradients, and make it scalable, and definitely, get rid of the tables!
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I've got such a high level of karma on /. that I get the "Thanks again for helping make Slashdot great!" Ads Disabled box. I don't get any ads at all. Which is just the right amount.spatel85 wrote:Thanks for looking at it and giving your opinion. Do you think it would be better with one image ad on the side like slashdot? Did you like the rest of the functionality like the news/publisher tags?onion2k wrote:Too many adverts. I'll stick with Slashdot.
Thanks again!