Help with advice on website design

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by marywtravis, Feb 23, 2016.

  1. #1
    Hello!
    My company is working in the area of technology innovations. Our latest development is RoboFisher. This is a robot placed on the bank of a lake to catch fish. Users do control it from their mobile devices and computers.
    I need opinions and advice on the website where the whole process of robofishing may be controlled. The entire system works great and you may book a fishing session and get what you wanted. Any improvements in design to make?

    http://robofisher.com/
     
    marywtravis, Feb 23, 2016 IP
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    qwikad.com Illustrious Member Affiliate Manager

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    I can almost hear an outcry from the save-the-earth types regarding your business model ("Stop abusing the fish, man..."). Could be wrong though.

    Personally, I love the concept.


    The cell phone version of your site looks terrible:

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    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    The overlap of the darker subtext in the header looks more like a rendering bug than intentional design. Your colour contrasts are far below accessibility minimums, the massive space wasting image banners and single page load to try and cover up a lack of legitimate content reeks of artsy fartsy bull... and to be frank is more likely to make people bounce before the page even finishes loading than it is to drive traffic and/or conversions. The use of pixel metric fonts, complete lack of logical document structure, lack of graceful degradation, and other failings are basically the equivalent of flipping a double bird at site visitors.

    Of course it's using scripttardery to do CSS' job, and the typical "i cans haz intarnets" train wreck so typical of when people use the idiotic mouth-breathing dumbass bullshit known as bootcrap; do yourself and the world a favor and go find a stick to scrape that off with before tracking it all over the Internet's carpets.

    Generally speaking, I'd pitch that entire mess of artsy fartsy ineptly developed bull in the trash and start over from scratch; the Ripley approach; Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. It is a laundry list of how not to build a website in terms of user experience, accessibility, SEO, or back-end sustainability.

    Oh, and the plural of fish is fish, not fishes.... see... well, unless you're talking distinctive subspecies or going with the plural possessive. Just saying.
     
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    That's the first thing I noticed too, but since I am a constant student of the English language I went to Merriam-Webster's and sure enough, if you speak of different species of fish, you can say fishes. Weird. Sounds like what my 4 y.o would say. Not sure if the OP meant various species though.
     
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    Thank you, guys, for your comments. We are working on the improvements in order to make the site cool.
    All your feedback to be taken into account.
    As to the word fishes, I can say that in the lakes there are several species, so the word fishes makes reference to this :)
     
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