check - does it suck?

[djfrey]

Does my site suck and/or is the navigation counter-intuitive?

Here's the link: gearbolt.com (http://www.danfrey.com/gearbolt)

Thanks.

[agentsmtih]

Very neat lookin site, but the menu needs to be more obvious. I sat lookin at it for several minutes waiting for something to happen lol. :P

So when I realize its the gears, I clicked it.... nothing! So I accidently dragged it... and dragged it... not knowing what to do with it! Luckily I dropped it on the other gear by accident. :o


Anyways other than that the site is very impressive. ;)

[Ryall]

another thing you should add is a "BACK" button throughout your site subsections. It would be nice not to have to use the browser back button. Just a simple java button backing up your browser would be nice.
Peace

[lostinbeta]

Yes, a back button is necessary, and you should have some small text in there somewhere telling the viewer how to navigate, I thought they were just disabled links...haha.

[Uthar]

Hey there,

I just gave a look at your site, and I thought it was good for several reasons:

-180K in total for a site is always good.
-Wasn't a typical knockoff (at least to my knowledge) of another site.
-some of your portfolio work is pretty neat
-http://www.danfrey.com/gearbolt/portfolio/img/redlife.jpg -- being an example thereof


I think the menu is a little harder to pick up on, but it only took me (but that's just me) 5-10 seconds to find it/use it.

A few suggestions how I think you could improve it:

- Maybe make your gears each flash for a part of a second, and then make the gear where they fit in flash for a bit longer. Or have a animation of a mouse pointer grabbing one of the gears and placing it in the appropriate place to bring up content.

- Maybe add a little more content, looks a little bit barren.


Good job on your site

Uthar:nerd: