...it's beginning to look like this to us...
We’ve been looking at our site for about 6 months now. It has moved through three distinct incarnations and the version that you see now has been revised almost daily for the past month… Looking at your own webpage is like looking at a picture of your baby: all you see is the cute baby… all anyone else can see is the huge booger in her nose.
So, we took a long hard look at our baby this morning and found some boogers that need… um… picking. We thought we’d share this info with our readers, so you won’t just abandon us in our infantcy.
So, here are the items that we’ve identified for immediate improvement:
1.) The social networking links in the top feature bar look really wonky on IE7… We didn’t realize, because we don’t use IE7. But the bar itself is badly designed and detracts from the overall appearance of the site. That entire bar is going to be replaced by an iconic interface located at the top of the sidebar.
2.) We’ve tried to use open source plugins for the Featured Artist and Flickr Friday slide shows. We found one that works great, but doesn’t look good on the light background that we’re using. We found another one that gives us all sorts of design latitude, but requires the user to click the images to advance… We’ve bee told that this is “janky” and that sounds bad, so we’re going to be working on developing new code for our own custom app.
3.) We decided that the advertising that we’re using makes the site look gratuitously commercial. Gone. We will begin inserting relevant and useful ads for resources that benefit our readers as we become aware of them.
We want WorshipOnPurpose.com to be the best site on the web for encouraging artists to use their gifts in ministry…
Any other suggestions?
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