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Ask HN: Feedback/Advice on my Website

by goldham on 2/24/10, 8:55 PM with 7 comments

Dear HN Community,

  I built my first non-static website this last weekend with PHP, AJAX and MySQl. Can you guys can give me some feedback and/or advice on it? I need some opinions outside of my close friends and family.
http://tothewho.com
  • by Travis on 2/25/10, 12:45 AM

    A few thoughts off the top of my head (feel free to contact me out of band if you want more...)

    - text is nearly unreadable - there's no separation for any of the posts. no rankings, you can't visually separate elements within the post. there are too many of them on there -- which do I read first? Should I read them all, or just the top one? Are they in some sort of order? A visual redesign will help will all these things. - Can I post w/o creating an account? I hate creating an account places. Why do I need to do that? It's not obvious that I need to create an account to post. - Who are these people? Are they users, or celebrities? Is this their twitter feed?

    I'd focus on visual design. You don't really have too much "usability" that's very complex.

  • by Ernestas on 2/24/10, 10:53 PM

    You will get better feedback if you write in which area you want the feedback. Design, idea...

    I'm no guru but I think orange on orange is not easiest colors on eyes to read.

    Login button could say "login".

    Interesting idea btw.