A Review of The redesign of Keeptrackofmythings.com by Chris Wright

First things first- its a nice start to the design. Please try to take this criticism as constructive! Right, now to get to work...

1. Nice image, but the font on it doesn't fit with the rest of the page. The tag line is also good- lists of 3 are always a good idea. If you change this font to fit the rest of the page better, it might sit nicer in the page

2. The scrolling icon is an interesting idea, but doesn't really work for me. The final position of 'Ke' is ok, although you might want to change this to 'KT' for Keep Track- trying to associate 'Ke' (Keep) to your brand of 'Keep track of my things' may be quite difficult. Also, the styling of this icon doesn't actually match your page! Compare the style of the page heading, to the icon, on most sites, and these should mirror each other closely. If you make it more in the style of your logo, this might work better.

3. Font of the 'Search' text doesn't quite fit with the other fonts, and is slightly blurred- JPEG compression is the likely cause. The 'Go' button also seems to suffer from this. You could try resaving these graphics as PNGs, as higher quality JPEGs, or by using actual text, to resolve this.

4. The logo doesn't tie in to the colours of the page nicely. The red is reused very sparingly in the rest of the page, and the general 'earthy' colours of the page don't really seem to fit with the logo. I must admit, I'm not sure how best to resolve this, it might just take a bit of playing around to get right.

5. The dotted borders on the 'News and Updates' section and between the image and signup section (in Firefox 3.6 at least) look like they don't fit in, and generally detract from the design. I don't think there's really much need for them and you could probably do without them.

6. The scroll bars demonstrate that you're trying to fit too much into a small section- those are some very big paragraphs that don't really need to be on the front page. Try to stick to 'key points' that are clearly displayed, rather than trying to get every bit of detail in

7. The 'Welcome to...' text should be replaced with a name to describe the content on that panel- the name doesn't need redisplaying at them, when its nice and clearly at the top.

8. General point- the page feels very crampt, you could space things out a good bit more, without making the page too big!

I hope that these points help a bit, and I hope you don't mind me being critical- I try to be as constructive as possible at the same time!