http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/good-call-to-action-buttons/

Remove the red from wnp. You want the first noticeable thing to be the first step, and the first step should probably be 'find out what this does' - so make the 'faster and more effective web research' text stand out more. You have way too many tabs - give me little next and prev buttons to scroll features. I like playing with those, I hate tabs - I get the impression that I'll have to load a new page, so I avoid them. Preload the images on the other tabs. Your support tab/button doesn't actually link to support, it links to info. Your video seems to focus on many individual features, rather than on the problem that you're solving for me. Why do I want to save these notes? Why do I want to compile a report? (Clicking the blackness outside the modal video should return me to the page - I don't want to click that little black x)

Summary: very crowded main page, lacks obvious next-steps at all stages of interaction, presents individual features rather than a solution to my problems. Looks pretty good otherwise.

http://www.webnotes.net

http://www.webnotes.net/Press/CaseStudies.aspx

This is my opinion only, but I think the price point for your premium service is too high. There are two reasons I pay for premium service: one, I really really want the extra feature; two, I have a really good feeling about the service and want to keep it alive. Ten bucks a month hits neither of those for me. In comparison, I pay toodledo.com $15 a year for a really important-to-me feature and awesome customer service. Looking at webnotes I would get by with the free features, but if I liked it, I would pay you $15/year even though I am not interested in PDFs. With your price point at $10/month, I'm just not going to. I mostly use this kind of service to collect and organise recipes - that is nowhere as big a deal to me as half my Netflix subscription, which is what $10/month comes to.

The .net address in unfortunate. People do type "webnotes" in their URL bar then get confused when they don't go where they intended. There is no obvious reason why this is a .net kind of site.

I get some overwrite issues on Firefox/Linux in the sidebar. Not a biggie.

Hope this was useful to you.

I have a few questions/thoughts:

- What happens if the contents of a page change? Do the notes go away or do you try and follow the content as it moves around?

- Have you thought about public sharing of these notes? I don't know if it's in your business plan, but it could be a fun thing to be able to mark up pages on the web and see others' notes while browsing. Could get noisy and be a UI issue, but it sounds neat :)

- I might change the "Click to try demo" button to be a little bit more clear what's going to happen when you click it. It's a great demo that shows off your product perfectly, but I was thinking I would be sent off to some other page and might have to go into some registration process. Two ways to handle this: Show the bar dimmed out and a button that says "Activate demo" or something to that effect. Or have the links say something to the effect of "Try the demo live on this page" so we understand it's just something quick. Again, it's really effective, so you should remove any apprehension about clicking that link.

1. Design: We start with designs from 99designs.com. Then, we have Ryan (CEO and great with photoshop) heavily refine our selections. Afterwards, we convert the designs to html using psd2html services. Again, heavy refinement is needed before the code is actually usable. Here's a link to our previous design: http://blog.webnotes.net/image.axd?picture=webnotesnet.jpg

2. If the contents of the page change, we first try to relocate your highlights/notes. If your highlighted texts have disappeared, we add a "page changed" notification at the bottom of the screen which contains the text you originally highlighted.

3. We do think about public sharing of notes, though our primary focus is on improving research. Several other sites have focused upon social annotations without great success, and so we hesitate when considering such options. Also, the UI does seem tricky. If we were to implement more sharing-related features (you can already share annotated pages through email or permalink), UI would be of utmost importance to us. Several of our engineers have taken usability classes (6.831 was awesome!), and we pride ourselves in the simplicity of our product.

4. We are looking into implementing your suggestions. Thanks for pointing this out.

Maybe I'm unique, but if I'm doing reading online, I don't exactly care about highlighting. If I come across something important, I just bookmark it. If it's a PDF, I download it.

So I'm not really sure your solution is that important (to me atleast).

In my opinion, there are much bigger hassles, with doing research online (these may not apply to you, but I'll tell you nonetheless):

- Where can I go to get FREE PDFs of articles? - If I make a note of why the PDF is important, can I download that note...so I'm reminded when I actually start writing the report? - How can I easily keep track of certain authors? - How can I easily contact the authors in published articles?

So in summary: Not sure if your product is really worth $5/mnth. If you came up with an option that compiled all the contact information for each PDF, then it might make this tool more valuable. -

The typical .pdf I encounter is a lot larger than 200k. What else...ah, the pins on sticky notes caused instant cognitive dissonance. As did the pins on highlighting...maybe just lose the damn pins.

I like it. I don't see myself paying for it. But I would encourage others to use it.

i also like how clear you made the advantages of the app, the testimonials, and just the overall how much information i get easily.

great job.

The sign up page took 15 seconds to load so I gave up at that point.

Online note taking isn't a problem I have that needs a solution.

Doesn't google do this already and integrated into my goole suite of tools?

Best of Luck ! :)