View Full Version : Tear apart sillysoft.net
Sillysoft
07-12-2004, 08:20 PM
I am going to be doing a refresh of my website soon. What do you think I should keep/change/add?
http://sillysoft.net/
http://sillysoft.net/buy/
Nauris
07-13-2004, 12:17 AM
I`d say it reads too much like a Word document. Visually it has a bit too shapeless structure and the white dominates too much for my tastes.
how about using images for some headlines (like "Lux, the best Risk board game...etc")?
And links on top of the page now look like a jungle, i had to read carefully, just to understand where it all leads and in the end find out that i dont need any of them. Button bars would work much better, methinks.
Well, its just my two cents of course, and i havent yet finished my morning coffee :) Sorry, if sounded too harsh.
edit: about the BUY page - do you need it at all? it looks like extra step, why not forward the customer directly to the buying page so all he/she has to do is enter cc info and press a button? The same text about eSellerate could be located somewhere on the real buy page.. just my tuppence again.
Sillysoft
07-13-2004, 09:46 AM
Thanks for your feedback. Harsh is good :)
The links at the top are more for current users, rather than new customers. I will see if I can make them fade in to the background more.
Re: the buy page. It would be possible to just redirect from the buy page to eSellerate. Although paypal takes a smaller slice. I will think about it.
Anyone else got some feedback?
Chris_Evans
07-13-2004, 10:09 AM
Hmm, the site reminds me too of a phpBB forum (maybe because it is? ;)).
But your site just doesn't seem "commercial" enough. I don't know if people will feel comfortable pulling out their credit cards with that kind of setup. Also,the layout is hard to navigate. I'm not really sure what I'm suppose to be focusing on. Especially your buy page, there's just so much text all over the page, it's hard to tell what I'm suppose to do next without getting distracted.
Personally, I'd ditch the whole phpBB look and setup a traditional site.
GBGames
07-15-2004, 01:25 PM
Looking at the Buy page, it doesn't look like a Buy page. I really do think it looks like a regular info page and it doesn't really draw my focus to any one area.
Centering your text is an amateur thing to do. I'm not making fun of you or anything, but I am just pointing out that unless you take a technical writing course or something, you aren't likely to know this. Centering looks alright, until you realize that it really isn't always appropriate.
Left alligning and right alligning, with lines and images to create a visual flow, is usually a good thing. I would suggest reading books by Robin Williams (not the comedian), such as http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321193857/qid=1089926652/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/102-9221569-0252126