Okay, I went through the first few pages of this and the other topic and have to say I almost feel bad
for disturbing all the praises with my coming ctricism however, I’ve always been rather a person of
constructive feedback than random ’HipHip horrays’.
Don’t expect a rant, because I basically like the clean look and the layout is nice as well.
And those are even the first you recognize (provided you use a B/W screen.)
My improvement
suggestions are:
- The colours. I love black and green, they are my favourite colours (I know, black actually isn’t a colour but w/e).
However, green+purple just doesn’t fit, well at least not to me. It might be a matter of taste and I see where you’re coming from (logo colours),
but seriously, they make me want to switch to greyscale.
- It’s slow
The former site wasn’t on the same design level, but
much faster.
Okay, it’s not a disaster a lá MySpace, yet the bloatism could be decreased.
- One way could be getting rid of the green area at the bottom. It’s nice info, but IMHO it better fits into a separate page.
Or add an option to hide/show toggle it. Like they have it on DeviantArt for instance.
- It’s nice that MODx doesn’t use obstrusive ’DONATE NOW’, ’SWITCH TO PREMIUM’ etc. popups, gifs or similar.
However, a tad bit more of reminding might be helpful. Some ppl just forget about donating, until they see the button.
It’s good that we aren’t pestered with it, but we also shouldn’t have to search for it.
My suggestion for that, just use the same style as the ’GO’ button for the ’Donate’ button.
- While the download section for extras is way better than on many other CMS sites,
it could be even improved by adding screenshots (for templates) and some certification line.
I am new here and don’t know how deeply tested they are and if admins verified them, but it might be helpful
to have some type of ’recommended’ or ’verified’ sign for those that are known to be reliable.
- Great job on the showcases section. Best I’ve seen so far on a CMS homepage.
Only down there is that it takes me back to page 1 each time I vote on page 2. Currently indeed not a big issue,
but we all hope MODx will grow and soon have 20, 30 or 100 pages of showcases. That would be great however, a forced
jump-back-to-first-page function will most likely have a quite demotivating influence on voters then.
Btw, I also shouldn’t be able to vote more than once.
The likelihood of that being abused increases with the growth of MODx attention.
- It would be nice, if signing into the forum automatically signed me into the main page as well. (Or/And vice versa)
Alternatively only one sign in panel.
That’s it I think. Don’t read it as a rant or even an offence, I honestly think you’re doing a great job.
They are just suggestions and as such you can either consider them or simply ignore them.
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