
Originally Posted by
antihero13
The design is OK but I had issues with the search function. I typed in my hometown (with the city and two letter state abbreviation) and got "No matching results found." It also didn't work with my zip code. I also checked for the weather in New York and the search function couldn't find that.
Also, the weather for "Your Place" is a bit off. For me, the information in that box is for a city that is about 200 miles to the southeast of my location.
The map for the United States could use some adjustment. Some of the cities are too far north of where they should be. For instance, icon for Nashville is all the way up in Indiana, Atlanta's icon is as far north as Kentucky and Boston's icon is in Canada.
The widgets are a nice touch, but you never really make it clear that you have them on your website. The only link to the widgets is in tiny text on the bottom-right hand corner of the page. Create a bigger icon/button/link either at the top of the page or on the side near the "Your Place" box to let people know it's there.
Overall, the website could be a lot more useful. Basically all you can do currently is check right now's weather. You can't get a projected forecast and the website offers no radar to let you know if storms or fronts are coming. You can check to see what the weather might be like later in the day but it's not really noticeable on the website (it's the box with the different times on it on the map). It'd be a hard sell to get people to use this site as it stands now over other weather sites because this one doesn't offer as much and isn't as easy to use as the others. Good design though.