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Originally Posted by AJ Starr
These are my impressions. I have not read the previous posts, so please excuse me if I repeat or contradict items.
Home Page:
The Picture of the EZReader which shows the features and flips shots, I found very distracting. By time I looked briefly at the picture, then tried to read the feature and look back at the picture, it had flipped. Suggestion: slow the flips down by a second or two. (I assume the speed of the flips was not controlled by the speed of my computer.) Suggestion: Let the pictures flip once through, then halt on the first pictures with either thumbnails or numbers showing the remainder shots and the customer can click on whichever one he or she wishes to look at.
Both on the Picture and on the sample thumbs of the books, the term "BUY NOW" was highlighted and very big. I felt that was intimidating. I felt the site was pushing too hard for a sale. I also felt that the "Buy Now" was irreversible and once I clicked it would take me to the check out. The words "Add to Cart", as shown on the pages with the books, is less intimidating, and more likely to get me to click it.
On the Command Line, there is no "Home" button so that once you are in one of the other pages you can return to the Home. There is a Home button at the bottom of the page, but when I clicked it, I got a security warning about resending information. I also felt the order of the selections in the command line was not logical. Suggestion: HOME — ACCOUNT — BOOKSHELF — WISHLIST — VIEW CART — CHECKOUT — FREE BOOKS — SIGN-IN — HELP — ASTAK.COM
Depending on the reason for it, I suggest the Astak.com be moved to the bottom of the page only. Although if that is where you are going to sell the Readers from, you need to make that clear, otherwise I would assume this just takes me to the company site for advertising.
At the end of the Command Line is the thumbnail of the EZReader and it's selections. What happens when you have more than one product. Suggestion: add a command line item: PRODUCTS
If you are going to have the Thumbnail of the product only, with it's three selections, then you will need to work on how to delineate the Specs and the FAQ when you have more than one product there. Though the majority of the FAQ and Specs will be the same, there are some differences, i.e., the Pocket Pro's SD card size, Text to speech, etc.
Under the "Search" line, the descriptor line that shows where you are is in a font that is too large for the space. It always ran over to the frame below it.
I did not see anything listed about the choice of colors on the Reader, just as I didn't see anything about the Pocket Pro, not to mention there colors. I assume these will show up in the check out, but it should be indicated both on that flipping descriptions and the Technical Specs.
On the Free Ebook page, should you list MobileRead Forum?
TECHNICAL GLITCH which I'm sure will be corrected: but on the Technical Specs page there was a coding problem: <! [end if]> showed up.
Though I'm sure it's just a glitch, everytime I tried to change pages the #%&##!! Sign-in form popped up. It wouldn't take my login that I registered with, and IT WOULDN'T LET ME OUT until I cancelled about 10-15 times. This maybe because it said it was loading pictures, but it shouldn't take that long to load a picture, and it should let me login and or cancel.
Apparently, logging out of your site LOGGED ME OUT OF EVERY SITE I LEAVE MY LOGIN ON, i.e., Mobileread, and another one. This was very irritating, logging out of your site should not affect my other sites.
My overall impression is that this site is set up to sell books, with the reader just the means to an end. Is this what you wanted, or did you want a site to sell the readers with books as a side line?
Thanks for the ability to evaluate this.
AJ
Still anxiously waiting to order the Pocket Pro!!! (In blue, of course)
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DEAR ALL:
I am reading every single comment that you are posting and copying it to an email and sending it to the Astak group that is in charge of the website. PLEASER do not think you are being ignored as you are not. Aftert the trial walkthrough is over we will assemble all the comments and discuss it this Friday in group! From there we weill demand changes of the website designer as a group and not just me.
I will say, quickly, that I agree that the flash is WAY too fast, distracting, frustrating, and maybe should be done entirely differently. I will see that weraddress all concerns.
So... your comments are being noted!!
Thank you!!! The amount of people responding with a lot of text is warming to my heart. I know you are giving it your all as you do care!!