RSSFruit.com Beta Design - Looking For Initial Feedback

[Gareth]

Hi guys,

I've recently acquired this design from Sam Granger and have very big plans for it! Would appreciate all comments and criticism

http://www.rssfruit.com/preview/

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If you'd like an insight to how the backend is going to be...

1. Homepage
News System
- Display just one news item – cut-off post after a few paragraphs.
- ‘Read More’ link to go to /news/ where all past news items can be viewed in full.
- Title/Post/Author/Date and Time Posted
- Users must be registered in order to comment on news, else they are presented with a ‘you must register to access…blah’ message.

Live Feeds
- Self-update in real time without the need for refreshing via Ajax.
- Display a maximum of 10 feeds at once.

Categories
- Show the top 10 most popular categories by amount of feeds they have.
- ‘View all’ link going to /categories where all categories will be displayed.

2. Registration
- Name (to be used for newsletter purposes?)
- Email address
- Username
- Password
- Password Verification
- Blog URL (Optional)
- Blog Feed URL (Optional)
- Subscribe to our newsletter? (Checkbox)

3. Live Feeds Page
- Display 25 Latest Feeds.
- Date/time posted, Title, Source.
- Clickable to full post on the RSSFruit website.

4. Login Page
- Username/password
- ‘Forgot password?’ feature – clickable so that an Ajax form opens with an input box for the users email address.

5. Members Area
- Change password/email feature.
- Manage my feeds (change category etc)/add a feed/delete a feed.
- Members should receive daily feeds via email from within the categories that interest them (they can choose in their member’s area). Email format:

Hello [Member Name],

Here are your daily subscribed feeds for [date]:
[Feeds here – html title]

Regards,
RSSFruit – Witty slogan here

6. Recommendation Page
- When a user is logged in they may insert the email of a friend to send a predefined email to them. ‘[Member name] has recommended RSSFruit…’​

That's simply a basic outline, I'm sure they'll be more features to come. Hope you guys are looking forward to this as much as me!

 

[nmoshana]

Hi,

Color scheme is excellent, gentle on the eyes but also very enticing. Also, why not put a fruit such as the berry on your page in your logo. An image in your logo will work wonders with branding. Your navigational tab is a bit dull and in my opinion does not encourage user participation. The content on your page is placed in a square type format. I would place the content vertically and put "Categories" and "Live incoming feeds" in the margin. Other than that the site is a peach! Please me know when your service is up and running.

Best of Luck,

Ninos

 

[Gareth]

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll certainly keep it in mind and try a few things out to make the logo a little 'fruitier' :p