View Full Version : A simple feedback request
Uhfgood
12-23-2003, 04:20 PM
I'm just curious, probably a year and half ago I had my website up for people to buy my games. I sold a few. The company that I used for webhosting who owned my domain basically had some problems, and I lost a month of service and my domain name.
Anyways, it's not been up for a while but I do have it mirrored elsewhere, and i'm wondering if a few of you guys would tear it apart basically. When I get a new domain (or somehow manage to get my old one) i'll probably put up a new website, but i'm just curious as to what's wrong with my website as is.
Anyways if anyone has the time go to http://uhfgood.artoo.net (my webpage) and let me know how it looks, not so much what I could do to improve it as much as what the weak parts are, so when I start my new webpage I can keep those ideas in mind.
Lizardsoft
12-23-2003, 05:29 PM
It wouldn't hurt to ditch the base color scheme and try some better colors. The letters don't contrast against the background enough with the current scheme and the buttons with the 2px borders and those shades of blue just don't work that well. Also, the LX Episode 1 button is differently colored, which you are probably doing to attract attention to it, but it just stands out sorely.
The layout is pretty standard and should work well. The logo and red headlines are good.
http://uhfgood.artoo.net/reg.html This isn't a very convincing sell page. Futhermore, only LX Episode 1 is really visibly advertised on the page, and even that only has a tiny LX Episode 1 link above the screenshots on the Home page. The content should be redone to be oriented around presenting the products and making them easy to purchase. I had to think to navigate the site.
Hope that helps :)
MiceHead
12-23-2003, 06:24 PM
Some suggestions:
On your individual game pages, make the TRIAL and PURCHASE links stronger. See http://www.dexterity.com/dweep/ for an example.
Create strong focal points for your layout. Your menubar and product links are arguably the most important elements; yet the links to other sites grab the most attention, since they're graphical and animated. Relegate those to a page of their own, and make the menubar stand out. (The Hour13 site you link to is a good example of this -- the five links at the top make it clear where the user can go.)
Where possible, use standard <font> tags so that your font sizes will obey browser settings. A sight-impaired user might bump the font size up a few notches so he can read.
I'll second Lizardsoft's comment that you could make the registration page more compelling. Tell the user all about how wonderful his life is going to be if he registers!
I'll also second Lizardsoft's comment on contrast. The medium blue on navy isn't terribly tough to read, but you might want to go with a brighter foreground and/or darker background.
More screenshots with a larger variety of action might give users a better idea as to how the game plays.