Port32.com - your opinions welcomed with open arms.

[icarus]

*Icarus tap dances -- badly -- to get your attention*

*hooks cane over her arm*

Okay. Now that you're here.

Ever click on a website and wish that you could collar the designers and tell them, "no. Just... no" before they published the site? Dreamed that you could have prevented the agony of thousands, nay, millions of internet viewers?

Now you can.

www.port32.com is about to go live and part of the design team (i.e., my dad) is looking for people to describe their experience browsing the site.

As many people as possible. As soon as possible.

I can already say that since I'm running Win98 with a processor too slow for Flash? There's no way I'd spend ten seconds waiting for their flashy-graphics to load.

*rubs hands together* I've always wished I could do this... some designers must be stopped.



In other news: Last night I dreamed I had a sleek baby porpoise in my arms that kept nuzzling me with his bottlenose.

And the porpoise purred.



ETA: florahart just pointed out I forgot to mention -- just go ahead and post your reactions/experience right here in comments.

Comments

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

I run Firefox on Win XP, have a pretty new computer. Got real broadband, and I still think the loading time is a bit on the high side

I HATE the music. Also, house browsing is something I can see sensible adult people doing in a lull at work or during lunch... Loud, autostarting unstoppable music = not a happy boss

Got some error when I hovered above a link, but when I refreshed it went away. See screencap

My greatest problem with the site is that (since I assume it's there for selling houses?) I can not easily save or print only the images that I like. When my parents looked for hotels we often encountered that problem and it's annoying. It's a lot easier to print a couple of pics and sit in the sofa and discuss then to cluster around the comp

Can't read any instructions on "Let's see the plan" screencap and the plans themselves are completely tiny. This here? Is me going away somewhere else.

Good menu system, navigation is easy and understandable. Ah, this is for older people? Then they should be able to enlarge the text, and an alternative site which works with reading out loud equipment could be made.

Hmm. Overall, once it loads it looks like a nice site. Then you try using it and discover that arghlbg it's all Flash. If they want the images to move in a spiffy way, they should make only the slideshow Flash and use something else for the menu. It's not multi-browser compatible at all.

I can neither save images nor highlight and copy all text. It's good to be able to print things like that out, without getting the entire site every time.

And music = kill.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Great feedback. Good to know how people use the site in real life, you know? I'm passing along every syllable.

Icarus

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

^_^ I worked for a fandom website review place for a while. If nothing else, I learned all the ways one should not do a site.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I've informed my dad (when he joked that he owed you guys a consulting fee) that he, in fact, owed us a story. So he has (eagerly) obliged. A little original fic as a thank you for Port32 (http://icarusancalion.livejournal.com/520279.html).

Icarus

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

Sankyou to your dad ^^ It was a pleasure really *hopd off to read*