From a visitor's point of view: The colors suck. And why do I have to log into the app to read the FAQ? The "welcome page" doesn't have navigation, other pages have it. BTW your home page is different from the welcome page, fix that too.
ref tables etc, Im with you - who cares
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See "slashdotted" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdotted
I thought everyone knew that term by now...
The message needs to be clearer: This is a job site (which happens to have a nice company analyzer) or this is a Company database (which happens to have job listings). There is probably too much info on the front page.
I would probably lean toward the Company database that has jobs version over the other.
Also, go through your codebase, and anytime you see something like this:
"Please login to access 'Find Companies / Jobs"
...do a total re-write. I'm not logging it to an unfamiliar website, and neither are 95 percent of people.
...also I have something I'm working on (surprise surprise) and I would like to submit something of this nature for all to see, once things are up. I wanted to know if asking the community to review my site is something that would get me the feedback I'm looking for (I REALLY want to know why my project sucks or won't work) or if it's something that is not encouraged.
The graphics are grainy. They should be stark and clean. There is too much use of two colors. It feels too monochromatic.
You need a better descriptions to communicate what benefit you have for people to join. Why should I join? There needs to be a more obvious "in your face" explanation highlighting something. The message should be along the lines of "If I join, then _______ is a possibility for me" - what I mean here is that this is the feeling that needs to be evoked within your visitors perception when they read one of the rounded boxes.
The graph could be a 3D graph, it will look unique and at the same time convey a hidden message to explore the site. It's a subtle message that if somebody sees an object of depth then they have an inclination to explore the site
On the about page, you need to have a margin on the sides. Feel free to make the font size bigger.
I click on the "about" section and have no clear way to get back to the main page - BIG MISTAKE! I see that there is an orange "return" button, but this is not intuitive. Clicking on the logo to take us back to the main page would be more intuitive for users and it will let people believe that this is easily navigable.
Or is it just a research site, like a Hoover's for startups?
???? So this is for company owners? Why they should reveal their connections?
"Adding companies and links add credit points."
Credits points?
would you prefer karma rather than credits?
Don't see why you had to use JAVA to show a graph that has no real value. Cool, we can move the arrows around the central point! But it has no value .. just make it a nice static, clear image
Looked good though.
http://www.stevetucker.co.uk/javascript-complete-degradation...
- Images have been stretched
Looks like you're getting good (and ruthless) feedback. I'd expect nothing less from this group.
Good luck to you. Let us know when 1.1 is ready.
