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Re: Personal site (URL flux) Feedback appreciated

#11
The design is pretty clean. Nice use of fonts. I was asking myself what the gray horizontal bar under the menu is for. It seems like a horizontal scrollbar to me but it does not respond to dragging (FF3/mac). And i would place the logo URL Flux to the left hand, instead of right. Because that's more standard.

I like it.

EDIT : I made a quick image for you (i also shifted the content a bit to the right) : http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/825545/urlflux.gif

Re: Personal site (URL flux) Feedback appreciated

#12
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Yeah, a couple things: - Your site is too wide. On my 15" powerbook, with safari 4 maximized, there's still horizontal scroll. - Speaking of scroll, the individual scroll bars for each column seem to run over some of the text. - The text is a bit hard to read, and everything looks a bit cluttered. I can't browse the headlines in comfort. - I'm not quite sure how your stories are ranked or organized. Right now, it jus…

My first impression is that the design is NOT clean. Clean, to me, can entail a large amount of content organized in a neat and easy-to-read way. Your design is simple, which is good, but a bit cluttered. My suggestions to you:

1. There are two lines that comprise the category links in the header and the two lines are arbitrarily aligned. They're off-center and don't look good adjacent to one another.

2. The thin scrollbars are cute, but they're a usability hassle; make them thicker so I don't have to pinpoint my clicks.

3. The logo is simple, which I like. I would suggest making it slightly thicker or somehow more prominent.

I second Kyro's second and third points. I thought perhaps these problems were due to Chrome, but the site looks identical to me in FF3.

Check out popurls and alltop for a super-clean design for a similar aggregator. Keep up the good work!

Re: Personal site (URL flux) Feedback appreciated

#15
- I would prefer if the logo is to the left than right - esp given that I am not on a wide screen

- A simple intro line would help. It took me 20-30 secs to realize what all those articles were (Can the source be at the top and not bottom) and then tie to the nav.

- The site loads too sloooow. A quick peek into the HTML shows 11 js files being loaded - I think concatenate+minify will help.

- It will be nice if I can customize(pick) my sources.

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