Hurray! June is over and that means (for those of us in the Northern hemisphere) we get to look forward to long summer days, hot summer nights and the traditional summer sloooowdown. The end of June also marks the end of the second quarter, and by definition, that means we’ve reached the halfway point of the year.
The Felt Source Peer Review – Short Comments
Not all peer reviewers write extensive reviews. Here are the short comments received, which can be just as useful as lengthy ones.
The Felt Source Peer Review – Too Heavy on Graphics
I’m going to make this fairly quick as there are so many fundamental things wrong with this site technically, it’s difficult to know where to begin. I guess I’ll start with file size. The home page is over 240 KB. Although, it currently ranks as sixth in a Google search for “felt”, this puts a stake through the heart of many of their potential visitors. The vast majority of visitors are still using dial-up modems and many of those aren’t even 56 K. That means this site takes over a minute for the average visitor to load the Home page. Most of this is due to the over 200 KB used for images, but even the HTML coding is over 30 KB by itself.
The Felt Source Peer Review – Target Adults
I had the opportunity to take a look at The Felt Source, and would like to offer the following comments.
The Felt Source Peer Review – High Marks Overall
Thank you for inviting me to evaluate your website. I have worked on this with the checklist on http://www.waller.co.uk/usability16.htm.
The Felt Source Peer Review – Information Overload
This website appears to follow the motto of form follows function. Overall, I think the site serves its primary purpose very well, providing its product to consumers. However, the web design leaves something to be desired. Here are some areas I thought could use improvement:
The Felt Source Peer Review – Overwhelming
When I first saw the name, I thought – well I do a lot of sewing, this might be a site I would enjoy reviewing. Then I read that it was for educational toys. I decided to look anyway, and I found a number of neat items, if I was a teacher, or a parent of small children I could understand how the kits that were advertised would be of benefit. I did find a number of things about the web site, that I would like to comment on.
The Felt Source Peer Review – Kids Don’t Have Credit Cards
Browser Compatibility.
The page works nicely in Explorer, Mozilla, and Opera. It passed my first hurdle.
The Felt Source Peer Review – Needs Quality Control
The Felt Source needs some quality control.
The Felt Source Peer Review
In our peer reviews, readers offer their unique perspectives on the design of a reader’s site. This time around the review is of The Felt Source, and educational toy company. Check out the critiques readers had to offer and use their ideas to improve your own site.