Thank you for all the feedback, some great ideas here! Sorry to those who I didn't get to send individual replies back to, the Blackberry gets a little tiring after awhile!
Haha, you have a valid point - slightly easier than a kid yelling "DAD, WHERE ARE YOU?" in a store...
I was thinking about that, and thought about adding an "advanced options" tab that will open up a few additional items, like:
what color shirt are you wearing?
different time limit (preset @ 30min right now)
etc.,
The problem is trying to keep it very minimalist and simple though while throwing all those options in the loop
I started this as an interesting way to get people communicating with each other - I'm fairly new to San Francisco, and am always interested in meeting new people to chat with, so I decided to make a site where you can post online that "i'm sitting at a coffee shop, and interested in chatting with anyone around" - then other people can go online and see which coffee shops have people at them - kind of a longwinded explanation for a simple site...I'm hoping the concept makes sense with the minimalist approach on the page.
Still need to make a mobile version, I know the JS doesn't play nice with the BBerry, not sure about iPhones - anyone out there that can try for an iPhone?
You probably have this in mind already, but it would be nice if I could:
- See my entry immediately added to the table (rather than having to refresh)
- Remove my entry. (In case I get a phone call and have to leave before the time is up, or have a change of heart.)
Other than that, I really like the minimalistic design. The dashed border doesn't bother me at all[1] as it gives it a nice hacker feel --- unless that's not what you were aiming for --- and goes well with the [coffee][talk] header.
One thing that I'm not too sure of is the red text on gray background (the column headers). But I can't seem to think of another color that would go better.
[1] Not that I'm a web designer or graphic artist.
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Additionally, maybe you should number the instructions at the top of the location page as it gives the impression that you can click on them, like a menu. e.g. On the iPhone I scrolled back up with the word "instructions" out of view, and thought it was a menu.
There also doesn't seem to be a way to get back to the homepage, although that's not too much of a problem since there is only one location.
I like the concept a lot, I'm not so sure on the small and dotted border. I think the small text could possibly work without the border though, for some reason it just distracts me.
US Dollar, hopefully can expand beyond US eventually, but need to start somewhere...
Billing will be invoiced monthly, with recurring payments (charges) against the card - I will not always have physical access to the card, so will need a remote billing solution.
I know Intuit offers a few, just want to know what others have used.
i'd look into chase paymentech or authorize.net if you are able to get a merchant account. chase's api is pretty blackbox but they have a soap api as well. authorize is less black box. Afaik, aka last time i checked, a while ago - chase was offering better rates and transacts in many currencies.
I ran into an old friend, who, believe it or not, had over 30 years (since 1977) of New York Lottery data...I asked him if I could play around with it and wanted to see if I could garner interest on a site, so I threw this together quickly on Drupal - so it's not perfect, and the design isn't great, but, I didn't want to waste my time with something that I wasn't positive would even have a crowd!
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we all have our bad days, this one was just a little bit funnier than the others...hope you got a laugh from this one!
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Although I like the way the original site is straightforward (usability for those new to the web), vimeo does a killer job at integrating their login form into the site design...it actually looks like it's supposed to be there, as opposed to most log-in forms that just look slapped on.
Valid point - from our perspective we though it would actually make things easier. We use the approved PayPal transaction to then generate a user ID for the person (using their PayPal e-mail address). So you can't just login with your PayPal e-mail address off the bat - but you bring up a valid point, people might think we're trying to phish for their paypal e-mail/password combo and enter it into our username/password fields...thanks for the comment!
Thinking an album search on the main page? Or just one on the CD listings page? That page (albums.php) is so ugly right now, I didn't even know where to add one, but I like the idea.
