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July 21st, 2009, 04:54 AM
www.howtostretch.co.uk

My site based on fitness and stretching/warm ups. Like it?

birdwing
July 25th, 2009, 09:45 PM
first of all.. this should be posted under showcase.. not kool sites.

There should be a maximum number that the content is allowed to slide to the left. Right now i could go on forever and just see white.


Also im not to0 fond of the scrolling as a whole anyway.

bear
July 27th, 2009, 08:32 AM
It's pretty interesting. Is this a template you made.

btw... birdwing: it's "Freelance Designer, I am."

shane-c
July 27th, 2009, 11:48 AM
I don't see any real Ajax, just some javascript scrolling. Am I missing something?

As for the site itself, as just an experiment with WordPress and javascript, it's pretty cool - but as an actual site that people will want to use, I don't think it works too well. It's just a little weird and slow to navigate, and that makes it cumbersome. If you want people to keep coming back often, usability should be your first priority.

azdak
July 28th, 2009, 02:47 PM
^^^ Agree. Horizontal scrolling is mebbe doable from a UI perspective, but you're really going to need to go out of your way to make it easy to use. There should probably be a horizontal scrollbar, and some way to hop between sections after the first page is out of view.

That said, I pretty well like the look of the thing; which is too bad, as currently it's a serious headache to navigate.