Beauty / Fashion /Entertainment based Community site

pinkvilla - March 12, 2007 - 05:18

Hi Everyone,

We are developing a Beauty / Fashion /Entertainment based Community site at http://www.pinkvilla.com
It would be great if you go through the site and give us some feedback specifically on usability and look & feel. We would really appreciate this before our beta release.

Thanks,
http://www.PinkVilla.com

What's up.

nisguy - March 23, 2007 - 18:02

What's up.

I think the site might benefit by putting 'icons' on the home page to give the user somewhere to focus on when they visit the site. Similar to the icons on the Ruby on Rails home page, except a bit smaller for your application. My eye focused in on the 'Join now' image, but I don't think users would want to join until they knew what the site offered them. If you brought their attention to the following part, it may help guide them into the information that they would be interested in:

# Meet     new people,  talk about celebrity gossip
# Discover   beauty tips, the latest fashion trends
# Share   diva stories, poll others, ask question

I would make the images that appear lower on the home page much smaller, perhaps 50px, and have them all the same size so the page looks more 'clean' and organized, or in a vertical menu bar on the side.

Good Luck!

More Design Ideas...

ninja383 - April 24, 2007 - 23:46

I have to agree with ebrad, it would help to call more attention to the "Meet, Discover, Share" section. maybe by using a larger font and using the same color that you have used for the second half of the site name. I think the size of the pictures should be standardized as well, but 100x100px is probably small enough.

I also found the 2 sets of tabbed views to be a little confusing in terms of why they were separate. Perhaps this would be better done as a menu. I hope some of this is helpful, I don't know if you are still looking for feedback but thought I would offer.

PS - I love the site, I hadn't seen the pictures of Aish & Abhi yet.

very great but...

dcine - April 25, 2007 - 00:06

Very great site. I think that is a good job and is in the good way (sorry for mi english, i'm spanish and...)
A question
What is the module you use to the tabs menu (down in the home page)? (please!)

Barry Collins
Blog: http://www.los5000dedosdeldoctort.com - Web: http://www.dcine.org

I have not used it but it

GiorgosK - April 26, 2007 - 00:47

I have not used it but
it must be panels block http://drupal.org/project/panelsblock
which depends on jtools and panels

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The site is well written ,

helperr - October 15, 2007 - 14:03

The site is well written , and to quote a friend of mine 'Code so clean you could eat off it' :) But joke aside, maybe it could use a little more advertisement, to bring the traffic in, for example some apparel closeout links or some eBay best buy items.

Look and feel

justinchev - May 12, 2007 - 16:01

Hi - it's looking good, but a couple of usability and design comments:

The white menu text on the pink vertical navigation bar could be hard to read for some people, consider making it bold.

On the homepage I would be cautious of using most of the 'upper' page for the What's Popular area. What I mean by 'upper' page is that area which appears above the fold (the area shown before a user has to scroll down). The reason for this is statistically people don't scroll down the page before clicking off to another area.

With this in mind I would flag up a couple of the main site areas such as Latest trends, Diva Stories etc. by possibly creating some 'feature boxes'. I also gives the first time user a quick understanding of what is on the site and drives traffic to those areas.

Hope this helps.

Justin
www.Rankster.co.uk - the UK's Best websites as voted and ranked by YOU.

Pinkvilla is Absolutely Fantastic

poojaslatt - May 13, 2008 - 23:15

First of all it was hard to believe it was a drupal site.. and second i think its is one of the best drupal based sites I have seen out there (if thats the case :) feels too good to be true ;) )

Also It looks like the site is targetted more towards women fashion and bollywood and a collaborative site that does this is something unique.. I have seen a ton of sites around this.. but doing user contributed work combined with good site management.. just great... keep up the good work..

Usability dead forum post

heather - September 1, 2008 - 20:42

Usability dead forum post pruning

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