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The logo - Carve a logo out of the banner and stick it in the top right. You're wasting a lot of screen space. Shrink the height to around 85px. The Try It No
by vellum 16y ago
The logo - Carve a logo out of the banner and stick it in the top right. You're wasting a lot of screen space. Shrink the height to around 85px.
The Try It Now button → Use a more normal font and regular capitalization. Also, change the button text to “Start Watching! >” Increase the padding or shrink the font. Also, use a lighter gradient. Top part is whiter, bottom part is darker. Make a hover state for the Try It now button. You can just reverse the gradient.
Get rid of the header and entire paragraph underneath "Watch Web videos like regular TV." Put "Watch Web videos like regular TV." under or next to the logo as the tagline. The description isn't helpful and for a video product, you want to show not tell.
I'd make a series of screenshots and arrange the steps alongside vertically instead of horizontally. Make them animated and include big arrows and Labels. "Surf channels by clicking here" "Surf categories by clicking here."
The remote control -> Put small labels or mouseover css overlays for the buttons. People aren't going to wait for the alt text mouseover.
One of the strengths of web video is the ability to have more information about what's next. Put some information about what the next channel and previous channels are.
Also, think about prefetching the screenshot previews of the next few channels so they can load faster.
- ww520 16y ago"Watch web videos like regular TV" is a good tagline. Actually the page has little content. I'm struggling to put more on it. Shrinking the header image bar to 85px would make the screen more empty. Also I'm taking up suggestion by others to reduce the 3 steps to 1. Screenshot is a good idea. Showing tooltip right the way on mouseover on the control's buttons is very good idea. I actually deliberately not showing preview thumbnail strip on the screen. I found them distracting. I rather let the viewers concentrate on the current video. However, the Channel Guide can definitely use more preview thumbnails.