Site Crit for a Sunday Morning 1313 Responses

Last post: 7 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Apr 26, 08, 5:14 p.m.

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• Samush

  please can all the kind souls of qbn crit this:

  its my current personal project, i'm trying to create a travel journal application that's based around google maps.

  standard front page:
  http://www.retrex.com/mapnomad

  sample journal:
  http://www.retrex.com/mapnomad/m…

  NOTE: it doesn't work in IE7 properly - could be to do with z-indexes in css, not too sure.

  its a work in progress and i have some re-arrangements in mind for the user interface (mainly on location browsing)
  some feedback on how it all hangs together would be useful.

  Thanks

  Apr 26, 08, 5:14 p.m. – Permalink

• Samush

  anyone? no input?

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 08, 5:37 p.m. – Permalink

• madirish

  i cannot crit this until tomorrow morning....

  • its already Sunday for me, sorry.
    no worries i'll wait– Samush1/2

    lol, I was going to say the same thing, mad :)– Jaline2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 08, 5:38 p.m. – Permalink

• moamoa

  use another colours
  use another font
  use a grid, because you don´t have one, that would clean a lot on ur page

  • i agree.– onewhoslaps

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 08, 5:45 p.m. – Permalink

• moamoa

  and 3 font sizes are enough... you use about 7 sizes on one page

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 08, 5:47 p.m. – Permalink

• ukit

  I think you need to offer people much more before they will sign up.

  I'd want to see some screenshots of the app and a detailed description before I'd even think about giving you my e-mail.

  Taking it a step further, I like it when apps give you the option to try out the service before entering anything, I think that's a much more effective way to get people using your app.

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 08, 5:47 p.m. – Permalink

• TResudek

  The colors could use some tweaking. 1. The green background is super harsh. 2. The grey on yellow isn't working. not enough contrast. It also feels like you have things boxed in too tightly. Fonts are too large, boxes too small. Definitely give those grey boxes more space. The icons don't need to be the entire height.

  • green was left there from testing the layout before i put the map in. meant to change it.– Samush

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 08, 6:36 p.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  Absolutely no sense of color!

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 08, 9:22 p.m. – Permalink

• ismith

  It looks like you based it off a grid, but a slightly deformed one... I'd suggest touching up your alignments and making the text that are buttons a little more consistent across the page. Play around with the colors a little more, they could use some work. Needs a little more contrast.

  

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  Dog-earApr 26, 08, 9:26 p.m. – Permalink

• Samush

  thanks all, maybe ill go back to drawing board on this one, seemed like a good idea at the time.

  

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  Dog-earApr 27, 08, 4:50 a.m. – Permalink

• madirish

  ok, i can now critique.

  your offering/service has been been developed for the last 3 years and is quite successful: http://www.ballofdirt.com/

  sorry.

  • well that looks like a pile of dog shit on fire. samush carry on with your project
    – onewhoslaps1/3

    lol– madirish2/3

    you're right so cheers for that!– Samush3/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 27, 08, 4:54 a.m. – Permalink

• onewhoslaps

  sucks that the feedback here is always in the form of a *slap.

  great concept. layout needs work, but great concept. you def need a place where the user can upload photos pertaining to the trip, to make the whole experience better.

  great idea and i will gladly help you test it out on the mac side.

  peas

  • the irony of your name and post.
    thanks for support, im on a mac so can test here but cheers for the offer :-)– Samush1/3

    iv left out photos atm because i don't want to make a social network, we've got plenty of them– Samush2/3

    gotcha
    i would still want that for personal use
    personally– onewhoslaps3/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 27, 08, 4:55 a.m. – Permalink

• creative-

  To be honest it's a little too early to tell. Maybe do some more work and show off something a little more polished or show your Photoshop flats of how the finished product should look.

  

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  Dog-earApr 27, 08, 5 a.m. – Permalink

• onewhoslaps

  

  what about something more like this.....

  also you are going to run into problems when people start racking up major miles.

  • rounded corners kinda fits the whole google map thing 2. just a thought.– onewhoslaps1/2

    oh and ©– onewhoslaps2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 27, 08, 5:45 a.m. – Permalink