I recently started an open source application relating to web crawling / data analyzing, is there anything small that you could do to get my project a few eyeballs, I know its raw at this point but I work on it at least a few days a week and would love to have someone else interested in it to at least bounce ideas off it so the more exposure the better: https://github.com/devs1010/WebGatherer---Scraper-and-Analyz...

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I would appreciate it if you could give me some feedback on my side project: http://www.gotcheapbooks.com. I am a developer and I am trying to learn more about design and usability. Please give me suggestions regarding the following:

- What can I do to improve the design?

- Any suggestions for making it more user friendly?

Thank you for your help and have a great weekend!

http://designingfortheweb.co.uk/book/ This is a great resource I give out to anyone interested in learning about designing on the web. They cover basic principles, how it all works together, even a case study at the end. Highly recommended.

There's nothing painfully wrong with your current design, especially if you're a developer with little existing knowledge. I would add more whitespace into your front page. The elements feel as though they are sitting on top of each other. Adding some breathing room will also help your visitors scan the page more easily.

I'm not much of a designer and have stronger programming sense. But I know what looks good. So sometimes, I'll go through my bookmarks, RSS feeds of idea sites, or check out website templates to get ideas. I might even take one and tweak it to my own tastes.

Also, see if you can go to a hackathon nearby and find an awesome designer to work with. Make sur eyou sit next to him and casually watch how he works. I did this last weekend it was an awesome way to observe a designer working within in his element.

From a usability point of you, your approach is direct and intuitive. Everything does what it seems like it should do. I wasn't surprised by anything. The interface is really snappy. Took a look through your javascript and you have excellent, well organized, well documented code. Beautiful!

Regarding improving your user experience... take a cue from Google and see if you can implement a realtime search as the user types. People are suckers for instant gratification. Maybe you can tie into a book preview service and offer an inside look of the books from the search page? I don't know, just a few off the wall ideas.

Great job with this otherwise! Hope this helped.

I'd suggest changing "Got Cheap Books?" to "Want Cheap Books?" Got suggests you're in a position to sell; "want" suggests you're in a position to buy.

Cool project. My $.02. :)

I'm a sales founder at a 3 month old b2b saas startup. We make listing online classified ads effortless. Our focus is real estate companies and auto dealerships. We have 4 customers in Florida. Can you refer us any more business?

Email me an informational url about your business and contact info I can pass along to a few people in those industries. If I think you'd be a good fit, I'll certainly share service with them.

@nobulb.com prepended by my initials.

I have Mozilla Firefox as my browser. I had Autofill with IE, to fill out forms, name, address, ect... but cann't find a way to fill in the blanks automatic with Firefox What gives do you know?

Here is Mozilla's support doc for the autocomplete that's built into the browser. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Form%20autocomplete

Here's a plugin that will work just as well. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autofill-form...

These were both found with a search for "firefox autofill". http://google.com

Aloha!

Would love your FB on our new email marketing software (www.redcappi.com).

And speaking of "doing nice", we contribute a minimum of $2 per paid account to Charity:Water for clean water!

Mahalo!

It's great that you donate a portion of your revenue to Charity:Water! Here's some feedback...though it's vague, you didn't specify any specific part of your site for me to address:

- The color of red in your logo at the top doesn't match the red in your footer. (Minor, maybe, but this was screaming at me.)

- The overall design could be balanced a bit better. The area at the top which summarizes your business is quite spacious, whereas the content underneath (Stroll, Explore, Create, and Story sections, etc) feel cramped. Consider a CSS grid layout to give your elements and position some "visual rhythm" (or a consistent visual feel that allows the eye to casually consume content without jarring distractions and interruptions within the layout). http://960.gs or http://blueprintcss.org is quite nice for this.

- RedCappi seems to be two products in one (with a tab on the right allowing the user to switch information between the two products. This is not very intuitive and I'd be willing to bet that the majority of your web builder traffic is a lot less than your email marketing traffic. Consider separating the two products more clearly and giving each their own space on your domain. This will improve SEM/SEO as well as help users to more quickly find the information they need.

- WAY too many pricing plans. By offering so many options, you are probably scaring your customers away from making a decision they (may or may not) have to live with. Everything starts out free for your customers anyway, so why not just let them grow their plan as their needs require it. You can mention limitations, but I wouldn't throw prices in their face unless they're looking. And when the only thing between plans that change is the number of contacts allowed, make the plan configurable with a slider. MUCH easier to understand for the user and they can play around with the slider to fit their plan (giving them the perception of more control, which they'll love). Heroku does this if you want an example. (http://www.heroku.com/pricing)

- I like the idea... I'm not doing too much email marketing so I'm not certain what are strong features, what is done well, etc etc. I was looking for screenshots or a tour but couldn't find anything of the sort.

Hope this gives you a good start. :)