A Review of Landing page concept for research paper library by Aurimas Adomavicius

For a website selling content you sure are wasting a ton of real estate on a "2.0" design, large headers, and focus killing blocks of contrast.

Look at it this way - I just landed on your page of a specific essay:

"The ruins of 35 major pyramids still stand near the Nile River in Egypt. Pyramids were built as the home of the everlasting for the king, the pharaoh's Castle of Eternity. The ancient Egyptians believed in life after death."

Now maybe I'm flawed, but that's horrific writing from someone who can hardly formulate a sentence longer than 5 words. I know it's a 10th grade paper, but another paper i found was written by a 9th grader and sounded much much better. Maybe one of the reasons the bounce rate is so high is that you don't have quality content or content filtering for quality? Or perhaps you need better ways to "level" the essays so that I could get to my tier of "quality" in an easier way.

But let's assume that that isn't the issue for the sake of this review.

Unrelated - where is your meta description of the page?

So, anyway, I'm on this content page and I'm looking at what's being presented. Your header eats up a third of the screen of my small laptop. Students use small laptops, you are wasting precious real estate.

Whats with the focus stealing left column? I'm trying to read my content that I found and i'm being harassed by the stats and the cheathouse. :)

The links on all pages are inconsistent - somewhere they're blue, in other places = orange. Why not use dark gray for the title instead of orange, and stick to orange or blue for the links? in fact, use blue - it's a very common color for links, users will be less confused.

I really like some other aspects of the site such as the signup process, etc. Really clean, simple, easy to understand - well done.

I hope this helps.