It looks well-implemented... Design is slick. In the "build something people want" vein -- why does anyone want this? If you can answer that question, you should add benefit statements to your home page... Or example use cases.<p>My gut response is that your most common use case is that a person wants to build a "best of" list that other people can contribute to... The end benefit being that you might discover stuff that you weren't aware of, right?<p>If I'm passionate enough about a subject area that I want to make a best-of list, is discovery a huge motivation? And if it was, wouldn't I head to a destination site centered around that subject area for that discovery? Or just google for "best sci fi books of 2007" or somesuch? It seems that you'd have a better chance finding great unseen movies on IMDB instead of creating a list on Seekler (given that movie buffs are likely to hang out on movie-centric sites).<p>This seems like a classic example of trying to appeal to all audiences. I'd suggest creating a 3rd level domain for the most list-centric audience you can find. If it's comics, create "comics.seekler.com" and see if you can make it fly.
I'll tell you why it looks spammy.<p>First, you have the nicely designed part of your site sitting in the background, and your main section enclosed within a box, which separates it from the rest of the site as if it's disconnected content, and making it look like a huge ad placed in the middle of your site.<p>Second, building off of the first reason, your design is discontinuous. You have nice web 2.0-ish designs with the logo and the pinstripes in the background, but your foreground content is a white box with text of various colors and sizes, versus designed boxes that section the site, text that is styled well (like the seekler logo), and an overall design that promotes unity.<p>Suggestions: take your content out of that box and mesh it with the background in general. Take the login/create an account/search bar and place it in the upper right. Make the pinstripe background permeate throughout your main content and vice versa. I almost expect an 'X' in the top right of that box that would let me 'Close this box,' like many ads I have seen.
We released our alpha a few months ago and got great feedback from this community. Now we've added some new features, fixed bugs, and most importantly, anyone can create an account.<p>We'd love to hear any and all feedback. Thanks!
Something about it looks sort of... spammy. That's my first impression, no real motivation behind it.<p>Maybe there's just too much text?<p>For me, it doesn't have any... "oomph" that would make me interested in coming back.
Alignment is broken. The title does not align with anything else. Similarly for the three boxes (featured lists, etc.) - they don't align with the title, etc. Just put things in a simple (invisible) grid and everything might just look much better.<p>Also, the list-details page is very crowded. When I go to the list-details page, I am interested in <i>that</i> list, not everything else. The left and right columns could easily have expandable boxes (unopened by default) for Popular, Featured lists, etc.
Oh, if you'd like to see an example of a list that's got a number of contributors (and some good information and tags), check out<p><a href="http://seekler.com/lists/Anticipated+Movies+of+2008" rel="nofollow">http://seekler.com/lists/Anticipated+Movies+of+2008</a><p>Ideally we'd like to have a ton of lists that have this much info.