
March 26th, 2008, 02:42 PM
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Text Ninja
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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I didn't sign up, so this review is entirely based on my experience with the front page.
My first instinct was to try to drag around the music player. That failed, which threw me off... I think I ought to be able to drag it around the screen, given its resemblance to a window (and "grippy" title bar).
I also read the description, and wondered if the player really didn't just do worse what Pandora already does. Of course I can't actually use Pandora anymore since I live in Canada.
The site's layout needn't have resorted to tables. A two column layout with a masthead and footer is about the easiest CSS layout possible, so there's no reason to slow the page down with table markup.
The page aesthetic isn't as consistent as it could be. At the very least, when you switch skins (colours) in the player the page should do a hue rotation to match...
There seems to be a lot of expository information on the front page. I know it probably goes away when you "sign up", but I wouldn't want to look at it all every time I visited. I don't think the search box has enough focus. It's very large horizontally, but you could be more web two point oh-ie and jack up the font size as well. The auto-suggest is okay, but in Safari at least (my day-to-day browser) the suggestion box is displaced way over to the right. When a song isn't found, the note that you're taking action to add it appears a bit too jarringly for my taste. It would be nicer if the search box didn't budge when this popped up.
I don't like the underline in the register now button. I feel it cheapens the design, and I'd prefer a graphical button.
I know you're probably grabbing the music from youtube and google search results, but it seems like your site is of questionable legality. Of course, I'm not a lawyer, and you've probably worked all that out already.
Ah, yes, and if someone has a monitor with a low resolution (or has shrunk their browser window), the right half of the alterplayer is obscured.
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