Your main homepage needs a lot of work from a usability perspective. You have 3 identical looking blocks that list different content. You should consider making them look different and restructuring that section of the page.
You also repeat parts of the navigation twice. Some of the links in the header are also below the login box. That's rather confusing as an end-user.
Finally, your right navigation block looks FAR too much like google ads. My eyes would be instantly drawn away from it
All in all it's a bit monotonous. It needs some colour, some contrast and a few more images here and there.
The homepage was done in order to promote simplicity and usability actually as far as the content is concerned. Got the concept from iGoogle. I woulda gone the image-powered, magazine styled route, but i didn't feel it fit the part for now, which is why i adapted some of iGoogle's usability approaches.
Working on minimizing navigation clutter, as I can see how it'd be an issue.
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Originally Posted by punchbowl
I like the look of it but there's an awful lot of options on every page and all over the page e.g. a navigation bar, a tabbed navigation bar and the gold navigation bar too. I'd get rid of the top one altogether , ditch the gold bar but use the graphics (which are nice) on the tabbed navigation bar.
That's a good point. I work on a high resolution so it doesn't really get to me, but i can definitely see why it'd get to others with a lower resolution. When you mention options, are you talking only in terms of the navigation bar? The developer's toolbar shouldn't ever show in conjunction with the normal icons.
12-02-2008, 10:41 PM
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