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by viraptor 4059 days ago
Looks great! Can't tell anything about the content really... but for the site itself:

- I like the merged signup/in

- The "try customizing this page" is a bit technical and it's far enough from the following text that I didn't think they were related

- I find the constantly changing faces distracting... maybe a smoother and/or longer transition could help?

- After clicking on one of the guides, I got the top bar and a white page - the main image took so long to load that I thought the page broke. This may just happen on slow connections. (I could scroll down already, but wouldn't know that without looking at the scroll bar)

- The footer with about / story / blog / legal links is not available on the front page - on purpose?

1 comments

Thank you so much for checking it out and for the feedback, viraptor!!

- Good point on the "customize this page". I showed it to someone today and they thought it changed the page "skin", like the color of the page. I will muse about how to make it clearer...

- You're right, the transition is quite slow. I think maybe it is jquery being laggy? I'm pretty newb with javascript, I will look into if there are any smoother transitions.

- Lol. That's what I get for being close to a university and having really good connections. I will try to figure out how to make it faster on slow connections.

- For the footer, not on purpose, I just didn't want there to be too many things to take them off the homepage. Also the About/story/ is pretty outdated so I need to update that. I will add it in after I update, since you think it is useful to see early on.

Thank you again for taking the time to check it out, I really appreciate it!