(I'm not educated in UI, UX or UXB, these are just my impressions, written with friendly intent)
Title:
The title bar says "Praux - Welcome To Praux.com"
You're missing an opportunity to tell readers and google what you do.
Maybe instead "Praux - Your resume, your way" or something like that.
Front page:
There is no stable description of what the site does, above the fold. When I first looked at the front page (on an 800px high laptop screen), I saw:
- P.C
- login and signup widgets
- a cute phrase
- the top two thirds of a flash block
The only thing above the fold that tells me what you do is the flash block. But I only got through two or three words of the first cartoon I saw before it transitioned to the next one. "Wait, what?" It felt a little like getting hit in the forehead with a spitball; disorienting. And I still couldn't figure out what you do until I scrolled down a bit to see the whole flash block.
I would put a stable blurb of text, near the top (you could shove that login/signup stuff up and to the right to free up some room) that says what you do in a nutshell.
The word "resume" does not appear anywhere on the front page until below the flash block, except within the flash block itself (see below).
The Flash Block:
Lots of your target users probably block flash. Do you want to rely on flash to present your first impression to these kinds of people?
The word "resume" or even the idea of a resume does not appear until the third slide.
- 1st slide: "your content" I have a lot of that. Which?
- 2nd slide: "community" To do what? Critique my content.
- 3rd slide: We have resume! But the dudes pop up and cover them.
- 4th slide: not bad
- 5th slide: almost not bad
I think the dudes in the cartoon are unnecessary.
The flash block slides go too fast for me to think about one slide before the next one comes up. Yes, I can read them, and by now I know the site has something to do with resumes, but now I want to digest what you can do for me. I feel like I'm being rushed through a presentation, like you don't care whether I get it or not, you just want to get through the presentation. (I realize you do care, this is about how I'm reacting.)
Below the fold:
I like the graphs, they lend credibility and interest to the site.
Footer:
"I thought about this page for: 0.04645 seconds"
That gave me a chuckle, but if you must have this data, I'd change it to be more sober. But really: who cares? Only you, and other random web developers.
"3.11.31"
What's that?
Master List and Search Resumes are on the bottom line with the rest of the administrivia, but these are Features. They both need to be more prominent, and Search Resumes should be top right of the page where everyone else puts their search widget.
Help should also be more prominent, probably right up there with Search at the top, or maybe in its present location but with a bigger font size.
The Help youtube video:
The music adds nothing to the presentation, and at six minutes of trying to follow a tiny cursor around a tiny screen of tiny text fields, I'm not going to make it distracted by the music.
Maybe it's just me, but I really, really tire of faux dramatic music played over something that is not at all dramatic. E.g. when the music first crescendos, someone is typing "Objective ..." in a text field. Ooh! Ahh!
You could improve this video immensely by making it silent.
(Actually, it's cool music, just not here.)
And why is there a Russian (I guess) word at the end of the video?
The video is way too small for me to follow, even when I broke it out of the page. Maybe I don't have the right youtube skills.
About Page:
Top paragraph is not bad, but the very first thing you should say is "Praux does this and this and that for you." Probably in its own one-sentence paragraph, right at the top.
"... we want everyone to know that YOU are the owner of your identity, not us. Not Facespace, Swamptroll, or MixedIn. YOU. Sure, you can link to YOUR content hosted here from any of those sites and many others, and we encourage these sites to integrate with us ..."
If you're calling your potential collaborators "Swamptroll" I don't think they're going to be all that interested in collaborating. In general this is a mildly belligerent paragraph, which I also think would discourage collaboration.
Possible re-write:
"... we want everyone to know that YOU are the owner of your identity, not us. You can link to your content hosted here from any other social site, and we encourage those sites to integrate with us ..."
"Let's face it.. it's tough out there right now. We need to remember, we're all in this together."
The two dots should be three dots, with one space on both ends, which makes them an ellipsis (although I'm not sure if this is the correct way to use an ellipsis; maybe an M-dash?). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis
However, a little wordy, you could probably cut these two sentences.
Search Resumes:
Does Search work? I searched for variations of Alison Kroulek and got no results, but she's the first one in the Master List.