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Ask HN: Please review my new website www.favilous.com

17 pointsby sw1205over 15 years ago

11 comments

Jim_Neathover 15 years ago
I'm being shown the line:<p>"Favilous is supported on all major browsers excluding Internet Explorer 6. Upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer."<p>I don't think I need to see this as I'm on Safari.
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aliljaover 15 years ago
It's a good start, but it feels like it's a bunch of unconnected ideas at this point. I think you need some better copy, but you also need to refine your layout.<p>Overall, it feels too busy. Items are shunted together in a confusing way, and they don't feel like they related to each other. Look at sites like <a href="http://www.pixelmator.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.pixelmator.com/</a> and <a href="http://feedafever.com/" rel="nofollow">http://feedafever.com/</a> -- their sites are brilliantly executed.<p>Focus on what you want your site to do: 1. Explain what you're offering 2. Convince people that they need it (especially as opposed to other, similar, services) 3. Make it easy to sign up and use<p>As it stands now, I feel like you have the rough beginnings of this, but it's not a finished, polished version.<p>More technically, here's what I recommend. First, you need to snap things down to a grid. This will make the page flow and FEEL better overall, and allow you to control how the user views it.<p>Second, you need to make everything more cohesive. It looks like you have seven different fonts now (the "favilous" name, "Bookmark Tools," the default body text, the sign-in button, the rotating text in the main box, the navigation links, and the "Follow Us" link), and a huge amount of colors. You should come up with a simple color scheme of maybe three main colors and a few shades of each, and cut the number of fonts you're using down to one or two. Yes, one or two -- the Fever page uses just one.<p>There seems to be a lot of empty space. Not white space, which a good design needs, but EMPTY space. Your main box looks like it's three times as big as it needs to be for the content it holds. Fix that, because it distracts the eye and looks unprofessional.<p>I would also recommend a color scheme that's black-on-white, instead of white-on-black you have now. It's much harder to read white text on a black background, especially for long periods of time, and since you're expecting people to be reading and browsing, you should probably focus on making it easy to read.<p>Finally, there are some instances on your site where you have an extra space before the punctuation ends. This looks unprofessional, and to grammar-obsessed reader, it's distracting.
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teyeover 15 years ago
I clicked the link and immediately thought, "How is this any different from Delicious? Why would I use this?"<p>Sell me! On the front page, above the fold.
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evlapixover 15 years ago
It took me a moment to find the "Sign Up" button/link. I checked in some of the usual places.. At the top of the page near the "Sign In/Have an account?" link, the main navigation, and in the actual slide show to no avail. I eventually found it and felt stupid for not seeing it earlier.
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tdupreeover 15 years ago
Congrats, delicious needs more competition in this space. I started working on something like this with a couple buddies of mine about two years ago with the read sites later stuff, syncing across browsers, etc. Our project, favtopia.com, ended up getting put on a semi-permanent hold as we had other things we needed to work on. I think you guys are on to something really useful, with a lot of great features other offerings lack. Just keep refining your landing page (and the rest of your site), making what you do really clear to your visitors, and I think you guys will do well.
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Vindexusover 15 years ago
I'd move the "Take a Tour" link to a more prominent location and make it a button. It took me a while to find it. The tour was good at showing me what this was all about though.
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zzzmarcusover 15 years ago
Guided tour didn't work for me. It loaded but never started playing. I didn't immediately notice any other way to find out what exactly the site is or does. Clicking the links in the bottom columns just took me to other sites.
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daokover 15 years ago
Positive : I like the guided Tour. It's not a traditional video and it's quite interesting.<p>Negative: I found the color a little dark but this might just be me. Nice website keep the good work.
richcollinsover 15 years ago
Design feedback: That background needs to go. Marketing feedback: Tell me what I get out of using it, not how it works.
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jparickaover 15 years ago
Looks cool but the transparent background wasn't necesary. It's hideous. In my opinion. All the best.
mikewhyleyover 15 years ago
Looks nice - need to experiment with a delicious alternative - this could be just what i'm looking for.
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