New site, looking for feedback | The Coffeehouse

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

I've been working on a pet project site designed for Multi-Monitor Enthusiasts and am looking for some feedback from my peer group. Anyone care to take a look and let me know what you think? Thanks in advance to those who do.

Obviously there's not a whole lot there yet; but the Gallery system is in place and I'd like to see what people think of the UI.

The site will have a forum, which I've been too lazy to implement thus far. But the nice thing about personal projects is there are no deadlines.

Also, if anyone can point me to a CAPTCHA that works with AJAX and doesn't mind living in a panel whose visible="false", or some effective way to put an ASP FileUpload control into an UpdatePanel, that would be awesome.

jamie

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SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

In reply to jamie

#Mar 17th @ 5:59 PM

thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou

Man, you're good with this stuff.

jamie

In reply to SlackmasterK

#Mar 17th @ 7:08 PM

i loved "because two is never enough" Wink

Cyonix
Me

ZippyV
Fired Up

In reply to Cyonix

#Mar 17th @ 10:32 PM

Same here, how stupid.

Rowan
Look, no errors.

Initially I thought I might be able to find tips and other resources on multi-monitor use, but it looks like it's just meant to be a gallery and forum. Which isn't very interesting to me.

Anyway, let's talk about the design, because it doesn't look like you've thought about it yet - just an observation, not trying to criticise.

The expanded menu implies to me that I'm currently meant to be on the "your systems" page even when I'm actually somewhere else. Think of it like when you're using Explorer to drill down to a folder and the current folder is indented the farthest. Expand the menu on click or hover.

The menu also has very few items and could easily be placed horizontally across the page to make better use of space. If the menu begins to fill up with new links you could separate the less important links to another menu that's out of the way.

Making a hierarchy were the home page is the parent is totally unnecessary.

Ion Todirel
buuu

no CardSpace authentication, oh common where is the love?

hmm, it's kinda sad, there are so many cool technologies out there like CardSpace and WPF and much more no-MS related, that people are not using just because they are too lazy or whatever they reason is... just a random thought