It seems like an OK site. With these things polish is really key.
- Use fixed width layout
- align the sign in link the the right margin
- let people see submit links even if they aren't signed in. If they click on it, then sign them in.
- stock it with a lot more bits. Right now there are just 3!
- have more than one user. Get your friends in on the beta first.
- make it seem alive and constantly changing, so people come back.
- make the bits shareable on twitter / facebook, etc
- the iconography is sort of weird, I saw a pancake, an asparagus (?), and the logo looks like a green folded piece of paper with eyes and a bite out of it. If you don't know how to design (which is totally OK), then go for minimalism.
Thanks, these are all really good suggestions, I've already fixed a couple of them. They are pretty general too, so I'll also be considering them when making future sites.
As far as the design goes: I'm not much of a designer, so I used vegetables. It seemed like a good idea at the time, anyway.
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It seems like an OK site. With these things polish is really key.
- Use fixed width layout
- align the sign in link the the right margin
- let people see submit links even if they aren't signed in. If they click on it, then sign them in.
- stock it with a lot more bits. Right now there are just 3!
- have more than one user. Get your friends in on the beta first.
- make it seem alive and constantly changing, so people come back.
- make the bits shareable on twitter / facebook, etc
- the iconography is sort of weird, I saw a pancake, an asparagus (?), and the logo looks like a green folded piece of paper with eyes and a bite out of it. If you don't know how to design (which is totally OK), then go for minimalism.
Thanks, these are all really good suggestions, I've already fixed a couple of them. They are pretty general too, so I'll also be considering them when making future sites.
As far as the design goes: I'm not much of a designer, so I used vegetables. It seemed like a good idea at the time, anyway.