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The layout sucks and colour scheme isn't great either. I think you've tried to cram everything before the fold which gives it the visual headache that it does.

The layout sucks and colour scheme isn't great either. I think you've tried to cram everything before the fold which gives it the visual headache that it does. Sparse it all out, seperate the map from the controls. Would be cool if the map geo-located my ip and displayed my local results on first visit. -edit- Ahh it looks like you're already doing that but didn't work for me (showed london). Overall nice idea and it works quite well.

pedalpete 18y ago
Hey Louisloius, Apprently your comment points to our opposing attitudes, as I commented on mixturtle that you had too much below the fold. ;) I don't think users should have to scroll to see content, particularly when there is a sub-scroll and a map. I think it would suck if you scolled down, selected an address, had to scroll back up to get to see the location, or the player(I originally had my player inline like you have on mixturtle, but wasn't a huge fan of it that way, preferring the consistent location for the control). Having said all that, your site looks way better than mine, so I definately take your critique seriously. I've already started piecing together a new layout, but with the additional features I have coming, it is only getting heavier. :( My original had the map seperate form the controls, and I may return to that. Thanks - hope all is going well with mixturtle.
- louislouis 18y ago
  lol I wasn't sure if you would pick up on that, I tried to keep it subtle hehe. Anyway I think if you really wona keep everything before the fold, I'd suggest giving the bands-box more weight than the map. If you swapped it round that would work quite well. So the map would be 30% of space and bands get 70% rest. But if you're thinking of adding lots of markers to the map, I'd suggest 50/50 split. Check out http://kuler.adobe.com/ http://kuler.adobe.com/ for color scheming. Good luck.

pedalpete 18y ago

Hey Louisloius, Apprently your comment points to our opposing attitudes, as I commented on mixturtle that you had too much below the fold. ;) I don't think users should have to scroll to see content, particularly when there is a sub-scroll and a map. I think it would suck if you scolled down, selected an address, had to scroll back up to get to see the location, or the player(I originally had my player inline like you have on mixturtle, but wasn't a huge fan of it that way, preferring the consistent location for the control). Having said all that, your site looks way better than mine, so I definately take your critique seriously. I've already started piecing together a new layout, but with the additional features I have coming, it is only getting heavier. :( My original had the map seperate form the controls, and I may return to that. Thanks - hope all is going well with mixturtle.

louislouis 18y ago
lol I wasn't sure if you would pick up on that, I tried to keep it subtle hehe. Anyway I think if you really wona keep everything before the fold, I'd suggest giving the bands-box more weight than the map. If you swapped it round that would work quite well. So the map would be 30% of space and bands get 70% rest. But if you're thinking of adding lots of markers to the map, I'd suggest 50/50 split. Check out http://kuler.adobe.com/ http://kuler.adobe.com/ for color scheming. Good luck.