Silas Swakhammer
GamersForChrist
Orion Empire
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Posted - 2013.06.27 05:15:00 -
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The Survey.
1. What you do you like best about the site?
I like the main navigation. It is eye catching and nicely branded.
2. Is there anything you do not like or does not look right on the site?
Home page:
The main image carousel is difficult to read. The images used are too similar to the caption (with the exception of the first one). For instance, the TOP 250 image has text running along the top which a user would want to read, but it is cut off do to the styling that was chosen. The caption is missed completely because the coloring is too similar. Secondly, the carousel navigation on the right hand side is covered with the images text at times. Changing the z-index of the carousel navigation or image could change that.
Further down the page, in the "The Reports" section, the captions have dates (such as 6/25, 6/18), using a more standard method of writing dates would be recommended as some users would not naturally assume those would be dates but instead as entry numbers (entry 6 of 25).
Beneath each icon is a label that it belongs to. These are distracting and seem out of place. If possible, try incorporating the label with icon.
The Game:
This page seems out of place. For being the second element in your main navigation, it doesn't do much and isn't very useful for the purposes of your website. Additionally, the elements to the left and right have drop down navigation, adding to this page's "out of place" feeling. I would consider changing the architecture of your site, maybe turning this into a drop down page for one of the main page elements.
The Reports:
This page should be spiced up more. Looks plain and boring with just listing the four type of reports on the left. Turn them into pretty graphics that float on one line (given that the "Main Menu" section is removed as I suggested earlier).
Alliance maps are pretty cool, but I feel like new users might be confused with the way you visualized it. For example, one might think that Orion Empire instead of the Alliance name since there isn't that much distinction between it and the corporations below it. I believe there is a better way to visualize that information.
The Planetary Maps should be carefully thought out in how they are visualized. As color is a powerful tool for visualization, it can be difficult for many who are have color vision deficiency. Consider using different line strokes or more distinct color hues to show planetary control.
Planetary Districts is pretty neat as well. However, a user has to study the guide pretty well in order to remember which color represents what in order for the rest of the information, what the user will care about, in order for them to use it. This will naturally cause a lot of up and down scrolling which leads to annoyance. In terms of the way the information is organized, each Alliance section has so much information going on, its hard to know where to begin. Recommendations for fixing this would to allow more real estate space for those sections (by getting rid of the Main Menu stuff on the right) or even using some jQuery/javascript stuff to redo the entire organization of it to make it interactive (people like interactive stuff ;]). The page can become an interactive tree diagram. At top would be the alliances, click on one, info pops up, user can continue and click on corporations and view just that information. There are several ways to organize the info, these are just some suggestions.
The Team
Pretty standard page. Consider showing your faces. :)
The Sponsors
It seems like a glorified Havok Core advertisement page. Consider making the image smaller as it is pretty overwhelming.
Other notes:
The "Email" link on sub pages throws an error when user clicks it.
The "Back to Top" button in the footer is convenient, but only if the user gets to the footer. On some of the pages on the site, they get pretty long, so having a fixed button on the users screen would be a better choice.
The "Main Menu" on the Reports, Team, and Sponsors page is unnecessary, there is already a navigation bar on the top that has the same exact architecture, why have a second one? This second navigation should be removed as it only raises confusion, especially when a user clicks "THE GAME" link and that "Main Menu" disappears.
The "Print" and "Email" links are floating around the page, and are out of place. They throw off the alignment of content and seem irrelevant.
Site branding is decent. The "Dust Reports" header should be changed to something that is more in line with the branding of the site/game. The typeface that is used doesn't fit the rest of the site.
3. Which report do you like the most? why?
The most promising is the Planetary Districts report. However, as mentioned above, the abundance of information should be reorganized so it is easier to digest for the users.
4. What other type of reports would you like to see?
Changes in corporations' WP earnings.
5. What other types of content would you like to see on the site?
If there could be some live feed of something, that would be pretty neat. Although I imagine it being out of your hands as it would most likely require having access to EVE/Dust servers. |