[thelist] Re: Critique: www.tryspot.com/tharapita/

[Peter Van Dijck]

I like it a lot.
Usability comments: (no testing done, just common sense comments)

1. icons won't be easily understood. Consider replacing them with words.

2. "welcome new visitors" is a bad strapline. Try make a strapline that 
explains the purpose of the site in 3 to 5 words. Something like : "Love 
planes? So do we." or "For airplane geeks".. Whatever you come up with.

3. Definitely keep the good parts, like the simplicity, and almost 
everything in the content area.

4. You need a pagetitle on every page. Where the ::introduction:: is now 
(or just above it).

5. Don't use pt for font size. It keeps people from resizing the text, and 
my guess from your target audience is that some may be over 30 (e.g. may 
have bad eyes).

6. Are you planning to have subcategories in that navigation (e.g. bombing 
- old / bombing - japanese / ...) (I made that up)? If so, how are you 
goind to deal with that in the navigation. Seems like you only designed the 
homepage, you should definitely also try designing some sub level pages, 
see if they still work.

But great overall, definitely the right direction.
Peter
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://liga1.com: building multiple language/culture websites