Hi guys,

I wrote the code of my websites from zero till what they are now. This is my live creation. Could you please give some comments? I went back to the seventies look because nowadays you can't see the forrest though the trees anymore. A lot of websites have too much banners. So if you open my website you see immediately what's it about.
I created this website for the user and not for the look. The wbesites are EasySell - Australian Classifieds - Home , EasySell - New Zealand Classifieds - Home and EasySell - American Classifieds - Home

Please some positive reaction too!

Rudy

If you wrote all of your code all by yourself, you sure did write a lot of fancy code. I don't believe there is a "70's look" in web site design, because as I recall there wasn't a web as we know it in the 70's.

Sorry, but if you created the site for the user, you missed. The site takes so long to load that if I weren't sitting patiently waiting to give you a review I would have long since left it.

Too many elements on the home page overlap each other, and it looks too busy, but also messy with the elements sitting on top of each other. Did you check it in various browsers? I'm using IE7 and it really doesn't like your design.
That's an ongoing problem with using .css, though, isn't it?

And on the pages where you choose a subcategory, the typeface is so teeny that it would take a strong magnifying glass to guess at what it says.

I'm sorry to give you so much negative feedback, but I looked at the site as a potential user and really didn't see anything that would make me want to register or participate. The site strikes me as "sort of like" EBay in that people post on it in an attempt to sell things. Perhaps it should be designed "sort of like" EBay as well, without copying their design of course.

Good luck

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With Craigslist you have a site stripped to bare user essentials. This one is just a little messy.

Most sites have the login right on the top page. Only registrations require the user go deeper. There's little chance you're going to get any reviewer to go through the registration and troubleshoot usability issues. Try setting up an inactive dummy account if you want the back end checked.

Contrary to opinion, the header area is about you -- not users. Make the logo small and unobtrusive. Categorize image thumbnails. Impose a visual hierarchy so users can move through the large number of choices. Lose the mascot or learn why and how to properly use a mascot. Lose the pointless registration badge that doesn't look like a button. Concentrate on the search box and lose unnecessary buttons in that area. Help and Tips & Info is the same thing in the user's mind.

If it were really that easy, you could absolutely eliminate the Welcome to EasySell text ....because it *would be* self evident how to proceed from the design of the interface.

Featured ads are useless *for users.* The search field should be longer, labeled search, and have a "Submit" button - that's basic best practices *for users.* Far from being too simple, the site has too much bells and whistles. You reinvent the wheel and create basic usability problems by not applying best practices for making a site easy to use.

Take a course in visual merchandising. Study ebay. Learn what a visual hierarchy and layout grid is ...then apply it. Right now the site is a mess. Had you actually set users down, given them a task list, then watched them you'd get a big surprise.

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