The main article with the plugs on the home page does not scream "buy things". I admit it took a second to find the "shop" button.
Was unclear at first what the site was selling. I thought it was selling connectors and cables (which sadly excited me. I spent 4 months once building a database of all connector types used by the Navy, with photos and wiring diagrams). Took a lot of clicks and reading to "get it". plug-in and plugin are used interchangeably. pick one and stick with it. the right column has the same padding top and left, but much more on the right. feels weird. I like the colors. like the framing. the drop shadows, the sticking-out of the section caps and footer (right and left overhang). screams techno. Not sure about the all caps in the page name. like the gold/black of the dials in the masthead, but those colors are not repeated anywhere. use em someplace. love em. (maybe list images or ordered lists, or something. not sure about the analog dials up there in the masthead, while talking about software plugins. seems incongruous. i think i want the site name (the plugin store text) to be a touch larger. the "Register" page is the perfect page example of the problems with the colors/theme. (which is mostly there for me). the frame/site elements scream at me, compared to the content of the page. it feels faded out, washed out. the purple page header is too hard to see. I have to strain a little to see the text. too light/too small. GIVE ME SOME COLOR in the page itself. Right now, the interface and site structure make the content tough to see. I keep looking away at the bright colors. on a long page like register, when i scroll to the bottom, that area over there on the right is so blank. can you put some kind of ad or additional offer over there, right at the bottom of the right column. something that might trigger my interest when I got to the bottom of the page and was bored. the "register" button on that form does not match the other purple buttons around the site. (gradation, grey text). It feels wrong compared to the other. I want the site name to be clickable in the header, to take me to the home page. The about page shifts right, and does not make it to the bottom of the page wiht the footer. the top nav (home, shop, etc) seems scrunched up too high on their background, too little top padding compared to the bottom padding. just a touch too much, I dont mean they should be centered or anything. I wish the right menu under company info showed some waymarking (purple hightlight of the current page like top nav, or grey hilite/purple text like mouseover) for pages like History. it confused me for a few, and i clicked 3 times to get it to change. on the login page, can you vertically align the input boxes? and give me a way to remember my password? overall, i like the direction! Jerry On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If any of you are around today, could you look at this site: > thepluginstore.com and give me any comments, kudos, criticisms, etc? > > Thanks in advance. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:296925 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
