website usability and design feedback

[okigram]

Any suggestions you have on making this website easier to navigate and use would be greatly appreciated. I have been debating whether to change it to a Wordpress-based website for ease of updating and to take advantage of tags and the database functionality.
THanks for your help!

http://ivalise.com

 

[johnwm]

1. Might be easier to use if it had some content, rather than just a list of links.

2. You will need to tackle the validation errors sometime - see

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://ivalise.com/

for a list of the current 99 errors.

3. If you want the entire list on one page I would have a 'return to top' at the end of every section, rather than just at the end of the page

4. Although we all like to keep our sites uncomplicated this may be a bit too plain

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[ChrisHunt]

On IE6 each link jumps to the left when you first roll over it, and then stays there. Dunno if that's by design, but it's really odd.

Still, it gives the visitor something to do on a page that is otherwise free of intersting content. All it is is a long page of links (to pages with a small amount of product information and another couple of links).

What's this site for? Are you intending to sell all these products, or maybe review them, or invite comments about them, or what?

Some sort of database-based CMS is definitely the way to go. Wordpress isn't a great fit out of the box, but with a few well chosen plug-ins it could probably do the job. I think you'd need some kind of news/blog content somewhere to make WP make sense as a choice though.

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[okigram]

Thanks for the feedback.

I know the site is on the dull side but I originally set it up as a place where you could go to find a categorized list of iphone accessories. If you click on a link it takes you to that accessory's page which has a photo, a short product description and a link to the manufacturer's website. There is no advertising and I'm not selling any of the products.

What I thought would be an interesting idea would be to have users submit accessories they've found but which are not listed. People could also submit feedback on products. The thing is there are tons of iphone blogs and I just don't have the time to review all of the the hundreds of iphone accessories.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Any suggestions you have on making this website easier to navigate and use would be greatly appreciated.

What I thought would be an interesting idea would be to have users submit accessories they've found but which are not listed. People could also submit feedback on products.

Then in terms of usability, it's a big 'fail', I'd say, as there is nowhere obvious to perform the main function you've asked for - which is to let users submit their own items, and feedback.

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[roshaoar]

It's not a site, it's a list. A seo-driven, canonically-controlled .htaccess exercise, with this thread being one of its backlinks.

Aesthetically it's nowhere. Useability-wise it's poor: having a different display on hover causes links to jump which, quite frankly, sucks.

 

[okigram]

Thanks for all of the feedback and abuse all of which was informative and quite entertaining!

As a disclaimer, I did not post the question to create a backlink. Including the url is the only way you could review the website.

The purpose of the website was to compile a list of iPhone accessories broken down into categories. If I was building the site for SEO, the first thing I would have worried about is content!

The main question I have is if you were someone looking for an iPhone accessory and you came to this website, how would you want to navigate? Would you want large buttons? Would you prefer a blog with the newest additions in the middle and the categories on the side? WOuld it be feasible to allow the user to upload accessories that are not listed on the website?

Thanks again for your help and constructive criticism.