Review: What's My Look Page

FGTH · 09-12-2007, 05:06 PM

Just launched What's My Look page...

http://learnmore.elizabetharden.com/makeup/index.php

Any feedback would be appreciated

Thanks.

Jul · 09-13-2007, 01:13 PM

Hello FGTH,

The page looks good. I mentioned two omissions, one on this page only, yet another on the whole web site:

1) The JPEG images are too compressed (the main banner + headers in red), which makes the text on them hard to read.

2) There are two links on the top - Sign In or Sign Up - they confused me, because of their phonetic similarity, and because there are so many terms describing registering processes (sign-in; sign-up; sign-out; log-in; log-out; register; subscribe). To me it wasn't clear at first glance what each of them means. Especially because both of them point to the same destination.

watchinYou · 09-13-2007, 01:36 PM

Nice website!!! Classy!

I like the colour scheme. Warm colours (hues in the red area of the colour wheel) go very well with the web topic.

I agree with Jul, it does not make much sense to have "Sign in" and "Sign Up" together; you only need on!
I would recommend I very good book about Web Usability: "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug. Chapter 5, Omit needless words is a chapter which has a lot to do with this issue.

watchinYou · 09-13-2007, 01:40 PM

Oops, sorry! typo!!!

I meant "you only need one"

FGTH · 09-13-2007, 02:46 PM

Thanks for the feedback.
I agree about the ambiguity between Sign-In and Sign-Up.

The original intent of the two are as follows:
Sign-In is for visitors who have an existing account (they've signed up already).
Sign-Up is for visitors who don't have an account and wish to register.

Typically there's a clear distinction between Login and Register.
I actually think "Login or Register" is much clearer than "Sign-In or Sign-Up"

"Sign-Up" was meant for Visitors who wish to Sign-Up for newsletters.

Thanks again.