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Unread 13-05-2012, 08:47
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Re: Website Critiquing

Here are some notes I made when I went through:
- "What is FIRST?" needs to be accessible from a link not found on homepage
- Jedi/Padawan confusing. Just leave mentors/student.
- On the student and mentor pages, consider new formatting for text. Having the image float to the left with the text wrap makes reading slightly difficult.
- Make another page of navigation for student/mentors with a list of names and/or pictures so the page will not be as long. Allow users to click on picture/names to go to the team member's page
- Cut out word "testimonials" on dropdown and just leave alumni
- make list of awards to easily scan. Have a list at the top and allow users to click items on the list to get description later down the page.
- Move "branding" to media
- Allow users to be able to click the headers on the menu and direct them to a page where they can navigate to all the pages in the subheader. This will make it easier for people viewing your site on mobile devices as often javascript is not enabled.
- Why is news in media section? I expected just pictures. Move event descriptions to team history or new header/subheader for news.

In General:
- Don't tell people to click things. Let them come to the conclusion they can click using link styles.
- People don't like to scroll unless it's really interesting.
- Most people scan websites and don't tend to sort through large bodies of text. Short and concise writing is the way to go.

Overall nice website! Not much in the way of original coding but colorblind badge is great! Impressive amount of team-produced resources!
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Last edited by elemental : 14-05-2012 at 02:28.