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24-04-2005 12:35 PM BST
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Hi love the site, and you've asked for feedback...
The materials listing is a fantastic idea, even down to certain types of brand packaging. Brilliant. Perhaps it would be a good idea to be able to comment on each entry.
The 'I agree to use this site' page is awfully long, and takes a lot of scrolling to get to the bottom. The trick that the big boys (and girls) use is to put the legal text in an inline box, so that cautious users can read it if they like, but us gung-ho types can get easily to the link that says 'I accept'... you might also want to make sure that if someone has accepted, then they don't have to read it again in the same session (you can use a cookie or session control to do this, same as the login)
Your front page is a little jumbled, and could perhaps do with a one-line statement that sort of says what the site is about. If I were going to try an be constructive here, I'd say split the page into two columns, one large, one small. Have the small column as a 'site highlights' area, with your press testimonials, login/registration info, 'my junkk' case (brilliant!) and feedback requests. Then, with the large column, cut straight to the chase, and have your top tips and or most recently added tips.
And finally, if you can avoid it in any way, ditch the enormous advert down the side. If you have to have a corporate sponsor, I think it'd be better to have a partnership through the whole site, and build their logo and a link more intrinsically to the look of the site.
If you wanted some good press, I bet the BBC childrens dept would be interested, it's a hot issue for them!
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