Not bad Stefan... The site works fine, but you have some UI issues that you might want to deal with.
For example, the search form takes up fully half of the vertical width of the screen. I have to scroll to see ANY of the fonts that come back in my search. May I suggest putting the search inside a hidden DIV that shows up when you click on a "Search" button? Then the fonts show up all the way at the top, but people can search whenever they need to. Also, your checkboxes need some help...they're very messy and not disorganized. May I suggest putting them in some sort of table or grid of some sort? They'll be easier to use that way and your form will look tons better. Might I also suggest a "Search all fonts" checkbox? You could either auto-select all of the checkbxoes for the user, or just toggle it in your code to search all cats if that checkbox is checked. Also, I think your choice of a tooltip over each font image is a bad one. It definitely looks cooler but it takes away functionality. Remember that while YOU want people to stay on your site as long as possible, the user wants to get in, find a font (or more) and get out. So anything you do to make that process longer (forcing them to mouseover an image to see what the font name is) will make them leave the site. You need to think about the user and not yourself. What can you do to make the user's time on your site easy and fun as well as rewarding. Remember that there's a million font sites out there. Why would a user want to come to your site over dafont.com or acidfonts.com? It's a great start and I hope I haven't discouraged you. Font sites are always in demand...just make sure your site has something that the other ones don't and your work will pay off. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stefan Holmberg Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [jQuery] JQuery driven site fellows, Finally my first JQuery driven site has been released - http://www.findfreefonts.net . To start by presenting myself - I try to spread the word about JQuery in the ASP.NET world - through my site http://www.aspcode.net/articles/l_en-US/t_default/ASP.NET/ASP.NET2.0/Ajax/ca tegory_61.aspx cause the fact is that JQuery has become my JS toolkit choice - and not MS ASP.NET Ajax (formally Atlas).. Anyway, a little nervous cause I'm pretty new/lame when it comes to client side programming - but http://www.findfreefonts.net is my new the JQuery driven site. You might want to take a look, I thought (maybe you get an dns error today, I registered the domain today but found that it resolved instantly - at least for me...) Am using the cssRadio/cssCheckbox plugin, cookie plugin, hovertip etc. I know it doesn't look all right in Firefox etc, but hey, I need something to do waiting for Santa... Just wanted to thank you - and if you look at the site and find some abvious errors/stupid things - please let me know... /Stefan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/JQuery-driven-site-tf2847615.html#a7952559 Sent from the JQuery mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
