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I find the landing page overcrowded and thus confusing. The two slides on the blue background change too rapidly and the download button is ill-placed and looks

by Quiark 14y ago

I find the landing page overcrowded and thus confusing. The two slides on the blue background change too rapidly and the download button is ill-placed and looks somewhat ugly. Viewed on a 1366x760 notebook display which may be responsible for most of the bad feeling, but it's still probably something you may need to look into. I have never used a service like this before, but that can change in the future. Still as a Windows user, this service does not stand out from the others for me. Hope you find this useful.

cilliank 14y ago
@quiark. Again, really appreciate the feedback. I'm actually on a similarly sized notebook right now so seeing the same issue you're experiencing. It is a little cluttered and I suppose in honesty because we'd had feedback in the past that users wanted to see as much content as possible we focused on squeezing in a lot. The download graphic was a last addition so absolutely something we need to address. Really useful, again thank you!
bobwebb 14y ago
When I scroll the page, it lags slightly. I'm using a reasonably fast computer on Linux and this kind of thing doesn't happen all that much. I can only assume it's because of all the elaborate javascript, CSS, etc.
- cilliank 14y ago
  @bobwebb, thanks for this - can you advise what browser (preferably with version number) you're using? You're right, it's likely the large amount of Javascript but also at present the infinite scroll rapidly loads a lot of quite high quality PNG preview images which we've found has a direct affect on some browsers. We're working on both refactoring and image optimization to correct this. Cheers!
  - jameswyse 14y ago
    I haven't looked at your code but I encountered a similar problem on a site I was building, the scrolling was fast in every browser except firefox. Turned out that firefox doesn't dispatch scroll events as quickly as the others, but I found a function which fixed the problem: http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/faster-scrolling-parallax-websites-in-firefox/ http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/faster-scrolling-parallax-websi... Might be irrelevant but I thought I'd drop this in, in case it was useful.
    - cilliankieran 14y ago
      Thanks James - will certainly take a look. I'm not sure if this is related or if it's simply the number of assets being loading are struggling on different browsers. Cheers.
- loevborg 14y ago
  Fast enough on (what feels like) a hellishly old computer running Linux and Chrome 19.
  - cilliankieran 14y ago
    Thanks Loeveborg - good to know it works on that setup as we're currently testing on a limited range of platforms. Cheers.

by Quiark 14y ago

cilliank 14y ago

@quiark. Again, really appreciate the feedback. I'm actually on a similarly sized notebook right now so seeing the same issue you're experiencing. It is a little cluttered and I suppose in honesty because we'd had feedback in the past that users wanted to see as much content as possible we focused on squeezing in a lot. The download graphic was a last addition so absolutely something we need to address. Really useful, again thank you!

bobwebb 14y ago

When I scroll the page, it lags slightly. I'm using a reasonably fast computer on Linux and this kind of thing doesn't happen all that much. I can only assume it's because of all the elaborate javascript, CSS, etc.

cilliank 14y ago
@bobwebb, thanks for this - can you advise what browser (preferably with version number) you're using? You're right, it's likely the large amount of Javascript but also at present the infinite scroll rapidly loads a lot of quite high quality PNG preview images which we've found has a direct affect on some browsers. We're working on both refactoring and image optimization to correct this. Cheers!
- jameswyse 14y ago
  I haven't looked at your code but I encountered a similar problem on a site I was building, the scrolling was fast in every browser except firefox. Turned out that firefox doesn't dispatch scroll events as quickly as the others, but I found a function which fixed the problem: http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/faster-scrolling-parallax-websites-in-firefox/ http://blog.keithclark.co.uk/faster-scrolling-parallax-websi... Might be irrelevant but I thought I'd drop this in, in case it was useful.
  - cilliankieran 14y ago
    Thanks James - will certainly take a look. I'm not sure if this is related or if it's simply the number of assets being loading are struggling on different browsers. Cheers.
loevborg 14y ago
Fast enough on (what feels like) a hellishly old computer running Linux and Chrome 19.
- cilliankieran 14y ago
  Thanks Loeveborg - good to know it works on that setup as we're currently testing on a limited range of platforms. Cheers.