Wanted: Brutal Honesty

Hello all,

if anyone is interested, I'd be glad to hear some opinions concerning the design/usability of bookproxy.com.

I am all about simplification, obv. =)

-me

:uncool:

Nice.

Obviously didn't want any books though
Check your HTML, you have no DOCTYPE and you have this at the top of your pages.

yeah, you really ought to clean up that markup,
as jabba said, you lack a doctype and encoding,

you aslo lack ending body and html tags,
several td, tr elements are not closed,

you are using deprecated elements like center,
use css for this.

you have some odd endings in some img, input and br tags,
like
<input type="text" name="author" \><br \>

not sure if you want to close them like xhtml.:
<input type="text" name="author" /><br />

as the rest of the markup is pretty far from xhtml
in html 4 no endings are allowed
<input type="text" name="author"><br>

I was a little unsure what the site was about, I think more information about the site on the front would be nice.

I would like to add that your GUI has a lot of distractions, you should make the search fields the main focus and larger (make them stand out from the BG color, now its all white, like camouflaged).

Make it so that people can't miss it.

Your font choice and the B/W graphics look a little crude, they are too simple, I think adding more color wont hurt your download times, you could make the grahics smaller to (try and) offset that.

I tried looking for this hard to find book - Grid Systems in Graphic Design. Found many references, but most of them are bad links. Amazon carries it, but no stock.

Lastly your submit buttons are too visually detached, they can also be simplified into Search and Sell buttons.