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Ditto on the 'Create Blog' / 'Sign in' confusion. Actually, on the whole you have way too much administrative debris in there. I actually bothered to sign up,
by rmaccloy 18y ago
Ditto on the 'Create Blog' / 'Sign in' confusion.
Actually, on the whole you have way too much administrative debris in there. I actually bothered to sign up, and it took 3 or 4 steps before I could actually do anything useful. Most people are not going to deal with that.
Here's my advice:
1. Let people create an event and start writing without signing up. If you must, make them give you an email before publishing it to the public, but let me drop in and demo it before I commit.
2. Get rid of the separate create event/invite/add steps and consolidate them into one app that lets you start blogging before setting a title, start date, tags, etc. Content is king-- the rest is just icing. Also, for the love of god, don't make any of those fields required, and don't have a text box I can only fill using a calendar picker.
3. De-emphasize the invite page drastically. The way it jumps up after blog creation makes me feel like you want to harvest my address book to spam people or something. Put it in the sidebar and make it AJAX, or whatever. Also, I had to look for a bit to find the link to skip past it and start editing.
4. When you post something, it shows up at the bottom of the page. The entire first screen is just title + metadata. This is dumb. Make the metadata smaller, at the top if you must, and put the commentary front and center. Also, consider inline editing.
5. Your graphics/JS on the edit page could use some polish -- seemed a little glitchy in Safari. Not a big deal.
6. This might seem like nitpicking, but have somebody do some copy editing for you. Aside from some grammatical/spelling/spacing errors, the front text seems pretty awkwardly written to me. Good copy is important. In your case, why not get rid of it entirely and just put an event stream or blog posting form in there?