Squiz new website feedback

(Pomster09) #1

I've remove my comments as this wasn't really the place to air them. Sorry for the inconvenience.

(Nic Hubbard) #2

#1 rule of critiquing is always give a bit of positive feedback before the negatives. I think you missed this.

  1. I am not seeing a mega menu when searching at all. Searching for "training" like you said brings back the appropriate pages that I would expect.
  2. The site is responsive, so you can use whatever size you want. On desktop all body content seems to be contained within 1100px.
  3. The font sizes don't look large to me either. Are you sure you don't have your browser zoomed in? Body and header text looks totally normal.
  4. Vertical scrolling is been a recent web design trend, it is everywhere.

These are just observations. Not taking either side of this issue.

(Benjamin Pearson) #3

#4 Link color same as font color ! consider different color for links

I see the links are more pronounced than the text (and are a different colour). 

I am not seeing a mega menu when searching at all. Searching for "training" like you said brings back the appropriate pages that I would expect.

I think he is talking about the search suggestions, which show a mega menu but do not show training. Although, after performing the search, training is first in the list.
(Greg Sherwood) #4

The people who manage, design or build the website are not the same people who read this forum. If you have website feedback, please use the Contact Us form and post your feedback there so they hear it. Make sure you provide your email address so someone can contact you.

(Anthony Barnes) #5
#2 The size of the site breaks all current convention. W3C convention (and most usability experts) for site widths asks to respect a generic grid, this usually being 960gs.

 

I've not read anything that suggests a 960 grid should be used as a 'convention'. I know it's popular, and I quite often use a 960px (60rem) breakpoint for my default 'wide' screen media queries, but I'd be interested in reading what you've read if you have some links.

(Tbaatar) #6

For me the website is mixed bag.

 

The things I like:

 

Search - I love the interactiveness of the search like when you focus it dims everything else, and the apple like predictive auto complete feature.

Responsive - This new version of the site does a lot better job then the previous site. From what I can see all content is still present and not hidden.

 

The things I don't like:

 

Clients - Where has it gone? This is the only area of the site I looked at all the time.

Tech - The technical side of Matrix seems to have been completely removed and integrated into Squiz Manual, and it feels like a brochure site.

Font Size - I think the choice of Open Sans for body font is an issue on multi platform / os. On my (work) Mac OSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard it is very difficult to read. On Mountain lion it renders slightly bigger.