site critique: neurostimuli.com (was [thelist] New To The List)

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Sun Sep 2 09:32:10 CDT 2001


> http://www.neurostimuli.com/n/3/index.html

hi charles

i don't get it, i see a totally black screen

(badump-bump -- thank you, thank you, i'll be here all week...)

okay, once i had hit refresh and this time allowed activex, here's what i
saw

1. site requirements

see if you can do away with this screen

it will scare some people away, and others, who (like me) aren't sure what
version they have of whatever proprietary software the site requires that
they have, will just ignore the info and say to themselves "i have no idea
if i have the right software, but if i can get in, i'll take a look, and if
something doesn't work, then i'm outta there"

2. create login name

see if you can do away with this screen, it too will scare some people away

if you want to cater to people who like to be addressed by name when they
are viewing a website (perhaps they did not receive enough love as a
child), make it optional and unobtrusive, and if someone chooses not to
enter a name, don't address them by Your Name Here

3. popup instructions

see if you can do away with this screen, too

it is a third consecutive time you ask your site visitor to take some
action before being able to see the page

as they say in baseball, three strikes -- you're out

the "close window" link is so faint as to be almost unnoticeable

4. main page

pretty

i can't really comment on the design

i found a lot of the text very hard to read -- too fuzzy and the
s    p    a    c    i    n    g         b   e    t    w    e    e    n
l    e    t    t    e    r    s
very annoying


oh, one other problem, i went to one of the pages, can't remember which
one, the schedule i think, then i hit my browser's back button, and
whoooooops, i'm back on the 1st of the three fences i have to jump (the
site requirements page)

at this point you would lose a *lot* of people


rudy






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