Here is my site http://abusethem.com Whether my site's design is good or bad ? For the past few days I am noticing via analytics that users are spending less than 20 second on my site! Whether it has something to do with the design? I am planning to remove the right bar on index.php ,what's your thought about this?
It's okay. I don't think you really needed a two-column layout for something like this. You'd be better off with an ultra-clean and minimalistic UI.
It has nothing to do with the design The site is pretty interactive...so honestly I have absolutely no clue about what the problem is...
I dont think its to do with the design, i think the site focuses so much on negativity that it might be a put off. Are you sure that you want to involve yourself with that? Even with a disclaimer in place and anonymous posts, still seems like a dangerous direction to take a website, to be honest, its like its direction can only go down from the start if you know what i mean, its going to breed negativity. The design is fine though.
The design is bad. It is so generic that there is absolutely no chance that a user will remember it for more than a minute.
You might want to change sidebar - add some borders, put the twitter 'follow' button instead of 'tweet this' one (more of logic is to put 'tweet this' at the end of content, IMO). And, god, stop using that tables! There are nice <li> elements to use instead!
This site was mainly created to help people express their anger at their organisation or boss..I think the choice of abuses should be made to select from list of already prepopulated abuses..
Good idea. The distance between input boxes is so big, ie. the vertical distance between name of person City comments box You may center align the abuse form, if you like. The lates abuses area is also taking more vertical space. Control it. Put a logo.
If people are leaving quickly it probably isn't because of the design. Maybe they're just happy Cheers Don
The visual aspect seem to be defined well however a little dull for today's viewers. The overall structure looks very clean but unusable because of the size differences. You have to remember, your going to get traffic from people who have no clue so you design has to hold them by the hand and lead them around. Your site does not offer this ability. You must be a Firefox user? I'm sure you are and that is great but 90% of those clueless people visiting your site will be using IE. Look at the difference and you will see what i'm talking about. In IE it is completely unusable for these people. I can not stress this enough. Your first viewer will be search engines. Unless you plan on spending a few thousand dollars to promote your site it must be indexed right the first time. First impression is everything when your starting out (with no rank). So right now, even if it looks good it may not get seen as often as you would like because of the html errors and wrong coding you have in the background. "Looks" and "Functionality" are completely different when it comes to SERP results. Search engines will never see the front of the page as you do. The current myth is Google does not like me and is not indexing my pages properly. It's not that Google doesn't like you it only indexing what your giving it to display. So trash in and trash out. You determine you own views and indexing by supplying what Google needs to produce the results YOU want. Till then it OK and will work but not right. I didn't look very deep into the code or spend too much time on it to see all the errors but I did see a few that will hurt your rank and SERP results. Hope this helps