A Review of Landing page concept for research paper library by Deborah Beckett

The brown tones are kind of blah for me but otherwise the design seems polished. Although I don't like the dude in the upper left corner. It's slightly too cartoonish somehow.

Getting into content and bounce rates -- I think it could help a lot to have the categories of essays in a list somehow, like the list of new essays, but higher up on the screen. As a prospective user I couldn't care less about the stats thing. That could go way lower. I see the Browse Essays link is prominent but I think seeing actual topic categories could really help.

I don't know what "Where's CheatHouse" is or why I would want to click on it.

Finally, maybe this is nitpicking, but a sample business essay dated 2004 and talking about how labor is "a seller's market" does not represent your stock of essays well, in my opinion. Some topics may be timeless but the economy is obviously profoundly different now than it was in 2004.