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by ramidarigaz 6065 days ago
Great website! I actually will probably take advantage of this.

As far as design goes, the site looks pretty good. It's not super flashy, but I think that's generally a good thing.

A few minor nitpicks.

1) I think you should put a few images on the homepage, and possibly elsewhere. Text is nice, but I find I value the visual description as well. A picture's worth a thousand words and whatnot.

2) This is very minor, but when I was registering, I accidentally hit enter before I entered my password. Naturally, the page spit back a few messages saying I needed to fill out more fields. I have no problem with this, as it's just standard behavior. What bugged my was the error messages indicating the fields I had left blank. The title of the field and the field itself get separated by the error message, which itself seems too big. I'd consider a different way of indicating that a field needs correcting. Very minor though.

EDIT: The login screen does this too, and also, when I mistype my login, it just says "please correct the errors below" which is not a standard "your login is incorrect" message.

Also, I guess I have no idea if having an account actually provides me with any advantages. I didn't see any changes with the site, other than the fact that I could logout.

A bug: After logging in, when I click on one of the worksheet topics to fill out my preferences and then generate it, I am automatically logged out.

Great site overall!

1 comments

This page is almost an exemplar for the story I was reading earlier about "coders can't market". Your site looks useful and like bingo-card generator could earn you a nice living - I'd check out his marketing and design (colourful and bright not drab brown, teachers need joy!).

Also you should check out your competition, decide what your unique selling points are and market your advantages.

Your strapline sucks, IMO, something more like "the super-easy, super-fast, instant online maths* worksheet generator; because practice makes perfect".

I'd also look at the Home-Ed market and spam some of their forums ... in a nice way.

* It's maths dammit, not math.