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Thanks Lim Cheng Soon, the magazine looks great! I've already ordered my copy. I've been hoping someone would do this for a while now, and I'm glad to see that

Thanks Lim Cheng Soon, the magazine looks great! I've already ordered my copy. I've been hoping someone would do this for a while now, and I'm glad to see that it looks very well done. I'm a developer for MagCloud, so I'm really interested in any feedback you might have so far. Feedback from everyone else is welcome too! I'm looking forward to future issues! If you care to share, it would be nice to hear some stats to see how much attention the magazine is getting. I'm speaking on my own behalf, of course, not MagCloud's, but I will pass this link on to everyone else on the team.

jonah 16y ago
MagCloud looks great! Awesome to see a growing range of options for self-publishers. I just purchased a copy of Hacker Monthly and have a few usability comments the checkout process! From the cart page I clicked "Sign up Now" (which could be a tad more visible) and then chose to select an address from my address book. It was of course empty so I chose the add address link. So far so good but here's where I ran into problems. 1) MagCloud only ships to three countries, but the country dropdown contains the whole ISO list... not necessary. 2) After adding my address it returned me to the address book. There it wasn't immediately clear how to select my new entry as the shipping address. (See Amazon for a clearer approach.) 3) Once my address was selected and populated into the checkout form I ran into the address validation engine: I'm in the USA so I don't know how you're doing it with the others but the address correction was overly aggressive and the error messages were unhelpful. Take a look at some other sites that attempt to normalize addresses. On my first try it (correctly) had a problem with my submission but the error wasn't that helpful: "Multiple addresses were found for the information you entered, and no default exists. This order would be shipped by the USPS, and it does not recognize the address you entered. Please try to correct the address." Could it offer those choices or be more specific about the ambiguous fields? 4) The address in my address book wasn't updated with the corrections made to the address during the checkout process. 5) There is no way to delete or edit an existing address. 6) This is more of a aesthetic issue but when it corrects the address it UPPERCASES everything (the way the USPS likes it) however it didn't cap address line 2 nor the name. Those could be UPPERCASED too for consistency. 7) The font color of unfocused fields seems a bit light - almost looks disabled. 8) Clicking Checkout/Sign In/Sign Up should also apply coupon on cart page. 9) The error messages could be closer to the form fields. All-in-all I like the design and layout of the site though!
kmfrk 16y ago
10) Any chances of another binding type? 11) Ditto with magazines in black and white with a lower cost per page. 12) A break-down of the pricing with an example would be great. 13) Your Father's Day "banner" has some CSS wrong in Opera: http://img228.imageshack.us/i/51623194.png/ http://img228.imageshack.us/i/51623194.png/. Notice how the coupon code continues to the next line and covers the user name (had I not removed it).

jonah 16y ago

MagCloud looks great! Awesome to see a growing range of options for self-publishers. I just purchased a copy of Hacker Monthly and have a few usability comments the checkout process! From the cart page I clicked "Sign up Now" (which could be a tad more visible) and then chose to select an address from my address book. It was of course empty so I chose the add address link. So far so good but here's where I ran into problems. 1) MagCloud only ships to three countries, but the country dropdown contains the whole ISO list... not necessary. 2) After adding my address it returned me to the address book. There it wasn't immediately clear how to select my new entry as the shipping address. (See Amazon for a clearer approach.) 3) Once my address was selected and populated into the checkout form I ran into the address validation engine: I'm in the USA so I don't know how you're doing it with the others but the address correction was overly aggressive and the error messages were unhelpful. Take a look at some other sites that attempt to normalize addresses. On my first try it (correctly) had a problem with my submission but the error wasn't that helpful: "Multiple addresses were found for the information you entered, and no default exists. This order would be shipped by the USPS, and it does not recognize the address you entered. Please try to correct the address." Could it offer those choices or be more specific about the ambiguous fields? 4) The address in my address book wasn't updated with the corrections made to the address during the checkout process. 5) There is no way to delete or edit an existing address. 6) This is more of a aesthetic issue but when it corrects the address it UPPERCASES everything (the way the USPS likes it) however it didn't cap address line 2 nor the name. Those could be UPPERCASED too for consistency. 7) The font color of unfocused fields seems a bit light - almost looks disabled. 8) Clicking Checkout/Sign In/Sign Up should also apply coupon on cart page. 9) The error messages could be closer to the form fields. All-in-all I like the design and layout of the site though!

kmfrk 16y ago

10) Any chances of another binding type? 11) Ditto with magazines in black and white with a lower cost per page. 12) A break-down of the pricing with an example would be great. 13) Your Father's Day "banner" has some CSS wrong in Opera: http://img228.imageshack.us/i/51623194.png/ http://img228.imageshack.us/i/51623194.png/. Notice how the coupon code continues to the next line and covers the user name (had I not removed it).