Steven, that is a kind comment for which I thank you. But it did produce a
set of answers which together were very thorough and therefore answered my,
as you point out, too general question.
While it can be a little uncomfortable at times I would rather get a full
answer which shows weaknesses
Steven,
Just pursuing the photo question. I have books of funny poems for sale;
what would be an appropriate photo? Simply people laughing?
Joseph
I had said:
...it is a Proven Fact, proven by A/B split testing,
that photos of product in use, by typical customer,
solving a problem or
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From: Joseph Harris [
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 10:26 PM
To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com
Subject: [wdvltalk] Is this site good?
I would not want to copy it, but I was impressed by some aspects of
www.barrym.com (don't ask why I visited it) and particularly by the
I'm afraid that I will have to go along with Steven on this one. It looks
like some gushy teenage girl's idea of a personal site (sorry,
non-gushy-teenager-type ladies, no offense intended), the kind of site she
would refer her AOL buddies to visit while maundering in a chat room. The
color
Steven,
Thanks for the response. I think if you viewed it as a teenage girl or
woman who still liked to experiment with make-up it would be a perfect
example of rudy's assertion that content is the key.
Like you I find it garish, but don't agree that there is only an action way
of presenting
Scott,
Thanks for taking the trouble and stying with it. Really my comment to
Steven describes (what maybe I should have put with my original question).
I think both you and Steven are responding to page design as seen by middle
age and post middle age men like us.
We have no insight into the
Steven,
I don't see your comments as nit-picking, and I agree with you about the
garishness. What I was noting was a) an experienced surfer dwelling at the
site, and b) the ease of use.
Joseph, I'm sure you know what you're talking about as
far as what you like about this site in question.
Joseph Harris wrote:
But my interest was mostly in the idea of a floating shopping basket, and
the link layout and accesibility.
What floating basket??? Accessibility in Flarsh? Link Layout? They're
breaking ground with a vertical navigation? And buttons that don't look
have a consistent
, February 02, 2005 9:27 AM
To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com
Subject: Re: RE:[wdvltalk] is this site good?
Steven,
Thanks for the response. I think if you viewed it as a teenage girl or
woman who still liked to experiment with make-up it would be a perfect
example of rudy's assertion that content
Joseph:
What did you like about it?
I looked at it for 30 seconds and wanted to leave.
The colors pink and odd gray blue look like, in fact
the whole design looks like they sell baby clothes,
baby stuff.
An amateurish and immature, teenager's personal page
feel. Maybe that works for them.
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