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Jake Craige
4,913 PointsWork in Progress - Opinions and help requested :) - New site
After all the discussion of collaboration on here and all I felt inclined to take on a new project for playing around with the CodeIgniter Framework I've been learning. I started on this yesterday and here's what I have so far. I'm really liking how it's all working so far.
Currently not implemented: Detailed profile view, edit profile, edit user account, edit and mark complete projects, project history.
Currently working: Posting projects, joining/leaving projects, commenting/delete comments, user registration, user validation
Live Demo Site: http://jakecraige.com/projects/collabconnect
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/jakecraige/CollabConnect
I'm looking for comments/opinions on it's current operation and what could make it better, as well as other developers/designers who want to contribute. It's just a fun little dev project and it would be nice to work with some people on it if you are interested :)
You can contact me any of the methods on my treehouse profile
3 Answers
Aaron Martone
3,290 PointsLooking great so far! I see it's a centered, fixed-width design. Very easy on the eyes with the light grayscale and blue theme.
An initial response I have is that the introduction statement is rather ambiguous. These are generally difficult to make as we need to convey to the user just what CollabConnect is and does for the user without going into technical jargon or being uninformative.
I've been a big fan of whitespace (and negative space) in designs lately. Though stated as "web 2.0-centric", larger fonts (and get some typefaces in there!), especially in a fixed with design on larger screens, might prove to be very user-friendly. Content is king! We don't want people to have to exert to consume that information.
Jake Craige
4,913 PointsThanks for the feedback. The design is pretty much just basic twitter bootstrap. I had to make some mods of course as well to get everything displaying.
About the intro statement, it's mainly just a placeholder for the time being as most of the content is. For me, I'm focused on the device side of it and getting all the functionality built in :) I can do content whenever, lol
Aaron Martone
3,290 PointsAh, that's usually the problem is starter pages. We could go all the way down into the nitty gritty and get very detailed about what to do, but we might just be delving into areas that you're already aware of and are planning on doing such to down the line.
It might be better to address the design a little further down the progress bar. :)
If you're more interested at the moment in the functionality rather than the content and aesthetics, I'd say you're pretty much on par. Using Chrome v22 here and everything looks and operates well on this end.