Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Website update and review

I added content to the Omni Customer Support website and asked for feedback on the BoS forum. It was unanimous that the header had to go. I never really liked it, but my focus was on other things so I left it there. So I cleaned it up which also took care of a color issue that I was having. As Ken Kaczmarek said I GotTheOmniCustomerSupportBlues. I had several different shades of blue, Ken counted 6. Another issue was the lack of "Download Now" button. I had the "Buy Now" but not the download. I don't know how I missed this. So I created new buttons (the old ones were pixelated) and used new colors to make them stand out a bit more.

There was a lot of little things I was doing wrong that were easy to fix. I spent far to much time using GIMP to make the new buttons, tweak the logo, tweak the header, etc. But the new version is up and I think it is a lot better.

I'd like to thank Ken who I already mentioned, Goran Burcevski who helped debug a problem with running with Java 1.4.0_03, Nicholas Hebb, and Floyd Price. Floyd is a Mac user and last night I found a Maven plugin for creating the Mac Application Bundle, so I hope to have a version for him to test soon. There were also a few anonymous posters who provided feedback as well, but I can't give them proper credit because I don't know who they are.

Stats from posting:
  • 161 Visitors
  • 10 downloads of the app -- This was a lot less than the first time I posted. Law of dimension returns on posting for feedback? Not sure. I am a little disappointed in this because I made quite a few improvements to the app and was hoping for feedback on the features.
  • 493 Pageviews
  • 2.88 Pages/Visit
  • 00:01:59 Avg. Time on Site

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