New Vampire site

[Webmonkey]

brightwyrm.wix.com/ecc2

Looking for feedback on the following:

1. Visual Elements

2. Navigation

3. Functionality
a. Standard browser
b. Mobile browser

Please don't provide feedback regarding the content itself as that's all in progress, but I'm interested in the general feel of the site, particularly as compared to the old one.

Thank you!

- Webmonkey Chris

[AST Tai]

So will we be functioning with two sites? One for vampire and one for everything else?

[Sheena N]

Chris, I really love the way it looks.
Appearance: 5 stars
Navigation: 4 stars, I like that there are easy to get to locations for the character creation and house rules. You can get to it from the front page rather than having to navigate through a maze to find everything.
Functionality: 5 stars, everything I clicked on worked. I was using my cell phone browser.

[Webmonkey]

Jul 30, 2014 21:38:06 GMT -8 AST Tai said:

So will we be functioning with two sites? One for vampire and one for everything else?

There's been a separate vampire site for years located at www.emeraldcitychronicles.com -- literally since about 2004 I think. That does not represent a change.

[Webmonkey]

Jul 31, 2014 8:37:17 GMT -8 Sheena N said:

Chris, I really love the way it looks.
Appearance: 5 stars
Navigation: 4 stars, I like that there are easy to get to locations for the character creation and house rules. You can get to it from the front page rather than having to navigate through a maze to find everything.
Functionality: 5 stars, everything I clicked on worked. I was using my cell phone browser.

Question - what would make Navigation be 5 stars in your mind from the current rating?

Thank you for the feedback!

[Katie Hester]

So when I visited the site earlier this morning on my phone, the text box of the links to the play hub and build hub were off the screen to the right (not the drop box navigation, but the front page image/text box links). Visiting it right now, it'd not doing it so either my phone was acting bonkers on the page or it's been fixed already. I thought it was designed that way and it didn't look bad so that's why I put it as my rating in navigation rather than appearance. So now I would give it a 5 stars.

Sorry for the lack of technical speak in my feedback, I'm not as familiar with website building as some people are.

Also, I just checked it out on my computer and it looks awesome there too!

[Webmonkey]

5 out of 5 stars on all three categories? Wow, thanks!

Now if I can just get more than one person to review it!

[Ross]

Visually: Looks excellent all around.

Navigation:

Something I reflexively looked for while navigating, and did not find, was any kind of "Back" button in the interface to take me up to the previous directory from any one of the many sub-pages. I can use the browser's back button of course but, like I say, it was something I looked for on reflex.

Functionality:

Using the latest version of FireFox; did not notice anything amiss.

Additional:

The various pages scroll/falling into place is...I dunno. I won't say "bad," just different, I guess. Maybe I'm showing my age in being accustomed to the 'click-snap' form of navigating sites, vs. the SmartPhone 'swish'. Not a complaint, just a comment.

-Ross

[Webmonkey]

Aug 1, 2014 10:03:43 GMT -8 Ross said:

Visually: Looks excellent all around.

Navigation:

Something I reflexively looked for while navigating, and did not find, was any kind of "Back" button in the interface to take me up to the previous directory from any one of the many sub-pages. I can use the browser's back button of course but, like I say, it was something I looked for on reflex.

Functionality:

Using the latest version of FireFox; did not notice anything amiss.

Additional:

The various pages scroll/falling into place is...I dunno. I won't say "bad," just different, I guess. Maybe I'm showing my age in being accustomed to the 'click-snap' form of navigating sites, vs. the SmartPhone 'swish'. Not a complaint, just a comment.

-Ross

Re no back buttons: I was wondering if someone was going to pick up on that, heh.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}Yes, there aren't any obvious back buttons, however the image on the right of (almost) each page is a back button to the previous page. It's a bit of a design experiment to see if people intrinsically click on things and figure out the navigation or if I need to be more 'on the nose' about it. You have officially answered that question, and I thank you for it. Though I'm curious to know how well that works for you now that you know.

Re functionality: Nice!

Re swish: Yep, the swish is a sign of the times. Takes a little getting used to, but like most tablets and phones nowadays, it'll soon become second nature.

Thank you for taking some time to check it out and provide feedback!

[Katie Hester]

Right, I should have said what browser I used. I used Chrome on both my phone and on my computer.