I need your help and critiques
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- neue75_bold0
colours = bad
typography = terrible
structure = lacking
communication = poor
content = fairI'd suggest ripping off someone who knows what they're doing...
- neue75_bold0
needs more taragee...
- ********0
yeah I know you have the explanation but thats not exactly user friendly, I should know immediately without clicking the "hey idiot, click here if you have no clue what this site is" button
- drgs0
make the middle news columns broader, to fill out space on the right
- jevad0
- much better!
neue75_bold - +1, a little like digg however (layout wise)nspire
- much better!
- pressplay0
Could you please explain to me what this site does to improve my life? In one simple sentence, not using any 2.0 gibberish?
Call me old fashioned, but in some aspects, this whole internet thing is getting out of control. Its just revolving around itself. in the ´old days´, there were people GOING OUT, researching, describing and interpreting facts. This was called journalism and it was fun. Today its just fucking boring machines collecting and reordering boring "information" from other boring machines.
Concerning the layout: I totally agree with the others: more space, make it more CLEAR. I got totally lost there. Superugly myspace is NOT a good example how to do it.
- nspire0
What pressplay said above.
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There are too many things that crave attention. You have to select what's important. The rest can be discovered as you go down the hierarchy.The top heading needs attention. The white text is nearly not legible. The orange bar in the random entry is not necessary. Jevads plain logo with emphasis on menu bar does just that.
I don't see a point to the block that has the home/about/discuss/bloggers/cred... sections. It's a waste of space. If I want to know how to work your blog, I should be able to do it right away, and if not I would explore it. The last thing on my agenda is to read your 'how to use' section. It's part of the experience to learn to use your blog, but you have to design it so its easy to use.
That entire block can just be added to an "About" section, with small sub sections for the other menu items maybe.
You can place your photos on that side, and not have that horizontal break between main heads/photos/content. Needs a lot of work!
- ukit0
As others have said, your problems go beyond the layout and visual design. Why would anyone want to use your site???
Let's take a type of blog I like as an example, electronic music. Here's a site I sometimes go to to read new reviews etc.:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/
Now here's the section of your site devoted to "dancefloor music":
http://www.tagazee.com/index.php…
Why the hell would I want to spend time on your site? Sure, it's user aggregated Web 2.0 etc., but who cares? If it doesn't have the content and the design I want to see, I won't read it no matter how clever your idea may be.
- Compraweb0
@pressplay: your question is about the whole 2.0 world. It's your opinion, i like this world and a lot of people likes it too. Opinions.
@nspire: thanx ,all your comment is interesting and i will study it with attention
@ukit: yes, you have your favourite blog. You go there to read something about dancefloor music. My idea is different: a place where to group all in once a lot of arguments, you can move with a click from Sneakers to Jazz, and engaging discussions with community users. Maybe too generalist, surely i should add more engaging categories, it's a beta and i'm working about contents.
I appreciate all your comments, although i would hope to find at least one positive...it seems that my idea it is the worst in the web :-)
- tparsons0
I think it needs more COW BELL.
I mean space...
Like Jevad said...
- ukit0
It's not just a matter of it looking nice and clean...it needs to actually be useful. Since the goal is to offer an overview of stories in each category, it seems like it would be good to cast a pretty wide net, and try to show a wide variety of links/ blogs rather than less. Which doesn't mean the design couldn't be cleaner, but just more white space alone might not be the answer. I could see the answer ultimately being a more dense, but better-designed layout.
- doesnotexist0
you guys are fighting a lost cause.
- Compraweb0
@ukit: yeah, you can be sure about it. My main goal will be to add more categories, and more sources for each category. I also like to use unconventional categories, for example "otaku", "cosplay", or weird stuff.
- ********0
I love it when you google something and the same exact fucking paragraph pops up on a hundred different sites
- ********0
in this day and age, even the copy and pasting is done for us automatically, and emailed to our chosen account, with an SMS alert to boot.
- jaylarson0
H2 and H3 are too similar
- Compraweb0
hi jevad, i want to thanx for all the support you're giving to me.
To tell the truth i'm a bit confused: in my opinion Tagazee is minimal, and it goes enough white space to breath contents, but reading you all it seems not to be true. I can't see (my fault?) ridondant or superflous elements, expecially if i compare it with the most of similar websites. Maybe i will make a benchmark, comparing it with "good" similar websites.
- ********0
if you don't have ton's of money to throw at "branding" then you need to call it what it is. tagazee makes me wanna puke nor ready it.
