[jQuery] JQuery driven site
Not bad Stefan...
The site works fine, but you have some UI issues that you might want to deal
with.
For example, the search form takes up fully half of the vertical width of
the screen. I have to scroll to see ANY of the fonts that come back in my
search. May I suggest putting the search inside a hidden DIV that shows up
when you click on a "Search" button? Then the fonts show up all the way at
the top, but people can search whenever they need to.
Also, your checkboxes need some help...they're very messy and not
disorganized. May I suggest putting them in some sort of table or grid of
some sort? They'll be easier to use that way and your form will look tons
better.
Might I also suggest a "Search all fonts" checkbox? You could either
auto-select all of the checkbxoes for the user, or just toggle it in your
code to search all cats if that checkbox is checked.
Also, I think your choice of a tooltip over each font image is a bad one. It
definitely looks cooler but it takes away functionality. Remember that while
YOU want people to stay on your site as long as possible, the user wants to
get in, find a font (or more) and get out. So anything you do to make that
process longer (forcing them to mouseover an image to see what the font name
is) will make them leave the site.
You need to think about the user and not yourself. What can you do to make
the user's time on your site easy and fun as well as rewarding. Remember
that there's a million font sites out there. Why would a user want to come
to your site over dafont.com or acidfonts.com?
It's a great start and I hope I haven't discouraged you. Font sites are
always in demand...just make sure your site has something that the other
ones don't and your work will pay off.
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andy matthews
web developer
certified advanced coldfusion programmer
ICGLink, Inc.
andy@icglink.com
615.370.1530 x737
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-----Original Message-----
From: discuss-bounces@jquery.com [mailto:discuss-bounces@jquery.com]On
Behalf Of Stefan Holmberg
Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 12:55 PM
To: discuss@jquery.com
Subject: [jQuery] JQuery driven site
fellows,
Finally my first JQuery driven site has been released -
http://www.findfreefonts.net . To start by presenting myself - I try to
spread the word about JQuery in the ASP.NET world - through my site
http://www.aspcode.net/articles/l_en-US/t_default/ASP.NET/ASP.NET2.0/Ajax/ca
tegory_61.aspx
cause the fact is that JQuery has become my JS toolkit choice - and not MS
ASP.NET Ajax (formally Atlas)..
Anyway, a little nervous cause I'm pretty new/lame when it comes to client
side programming - but
http://www.findfreefonts.net
is my new the JQuery driven site. You might want to take a look, I thought
(maybe you get an dns error today, I registered the domain today but found
that it resolved instantly - at least for me...)
Am using the cssRadio/cssCheckbox plugin, cookie plugin, hovertip etc. I
know it doesn't look all right in Firefox etc, but hey, I need something to
do waiting for Santa... Just wanted to thank you - and if you look at the
site and find some abvious errors/stupid things - please let me know...
/Stefan
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