A Review of Homepage design for a cycling reference site by Richard Theuws

make it easier to choose

  • Richard Theuws

    Richard Theuws

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    make it easier to choose

    Posted on Feb 19, 2010 at 8:36 AM

    You just (again) proved the point that developers really like options and choices :)

    I only see 2 actions on the main page; a search bar, and another search box (which ISN'T the advanced search?).

    So, you provide a quick search under which you state "use the advanced search", and next there's a search box with much more options, which ALSO says "use the advanced search". That's really confusing.

    How about just making the 2 main options you mention the only things people can 'do' when reaching the homepage?

    1) FIND THE RIGHT BIKE FOR YOU 2) LEARN MORE ABOUT BIKES

    both maybe with 1 or 2 lines explaining what they are.

    If you want a search on the first page; make it just a search bar.

    I won't go into the next pages, since they look very 'bike geek' to me, and I'm no bike geek hahaha.

    • Richard Theuws
      Richard Theuws commented:
      Posted: on Feb 19, 2010 at 8:40 AM

      btw, NICE feedback form! created it yourself, or is it an online service?

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    • Rod
      Rod commented:
      Posted: on Feb 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM

      Thanks for the specific feedback. I keep oscillating between having too much and too little on the front page. This sounds like good advice.

      I tweaked the "feedback drawer" from an open source component--a module for Drupal called Feedback. In case anyone goes looking for it, you can find it at http://drupal.org/project/feedback.

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