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by TheThomas 5865 days ago
The instructors using our tool have been very vocal, and we're absolutely thrilled about that. However, we haven't heard too much from our fellow hackers or our instructor's students. If you've got a minute or two to spare, please let us know what you think.
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This looks interesting, but I'm thrilled to hear that you are actually talking to customers first. Listen to them.

Nits: 1) I don't like that the 3 sellings points on the splash screen are aligned with 3 unrelated feature images. I was expecting each image to reflect each selling point and got a little confused.

2) The green hills footer bugs the crap out of me on the inner screens. Seeing text peak around a curved footer when I'm scrolling just doesn't look right.

Also a quick point on #1 - the images caught my eye more than the text and the images/text seem to link to different places.

If you want to get all 6 of these points across, I'd suggest letting the text live alone where it is then placing the images in a 3 column layout down below and enlarging them.

Just out of curiosity, what resolution are you using? I just happen to be using my old laptop today and I could see how the hills could be more distracting than we had anticipated.
I didn't realize that I could scroll through the hills (using a macbook pro at 1440x900) and accidentally hit my scroll wheel.
I find them annoying as well. 1600x1200.
The clouds at the top are annoying as well, but significantly less so than the hills.