[BNM] Site review: www.exhalebrighton.co.uk

[James Wragg]

2009/5/6 Louise Hewitt <louise.hewitt at gmail.com>:
> A 30-second UX review gives me ...

Thanks Louise! Some great comments there, really concise for a 30
second review! You've definitely given us food for thought - much
appreciated.


2009/5/6 Tom Coady <tom at web-tart.co.uk>:
> Not sure about best, but using coda this might be the easiest:

Regarding the email address being plain text, I decided I didn't want
to go down the pure JS road, so I've hopefully created a halfway house
of a simple link to the contact page in the html, then JS finds and
replaces it with the full mailto: link.

You can see the code in here, if that way inclined:
http://www.exhalebrighton.co.uk/js/common.js


Thanks all,

James


2009/5/6 Louise Hewitt <louise.hewitt at gmail.com>:
> Hi James,
>
> A 30-second UX review gives me (apart from it's utter awesomeness):
>
> Home page:
> - subcribe to list box and buttoncould be easily muddled with a search box
> (placement and design), so might be overlooked by those not wishing to
> search and frustrate those who do.
> -lots of content, little flow. It's all good, but let your eyes go soft and
> they don't know where to land. I think this is mainly because of the blue
> badge - moving this (maybe to the bottom of the yellow header on the
> right-hand) could help users to flow onto the nav and then down past the
> banner to the content.
> - purpose? what's the most important thing she wants users to do on the
> site? book classess? contact her? whatever it is, it might be worth adding
> an additional push to that content on the end of the right column content -
> just to keep them focused.
>
> Navigation:
> - Notebook is the only label I had to think about. Cute, but I think most
> people would recognise 'blog' quicker - 1 out of 6 aint bad!
> -  the border does need to extend up around the current tab to complete the
> metaphor.
>
> Contact:
> - form boxes would be easier to grasp if they all aligned (left and right
> edges) and the button was aligned right (but most IAs will argue about this
> stuff till chucking out time, so do whatever you prefer!)
>
> But superbly excellent. Lots of great labels (like 'my name is', 'my email
> address is'. Testomonials work well and the whole 'look and feel' is very
> supporting of understanding the content. Bravo.
>
> Good luck with the business,
>
> Lou.
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