Moderators Amy Posted May 18, 2005 Moderators Share Posted May 18, 2005 Hello forum members! Requesting a favor.... please take a look, if you have a moment, at our new iFi mini site http://www.klipsch.com/ifi/ (DIAL UP USERS BEWARE: The site is large and animated--not recommended for 56K or less modem users). Please give us your feedback on the "look" of the site--the navigation, readibility, layout etc. We would appreciate it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royster Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Nice! I liked the layout, easy to move around. I did notice that the text color made the text in the info blocks hard to read. A simple fix with a better contrasting color. Roy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meuge Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 It's kinda big, even for people with broadband. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedball Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Pretty clever page.....took about a minute to load through Comcast standard high speed. Using a 19" CRT regular monitor the picture was a bit blurry...may have been clearer with an LCD screen....? Color was nice....although I agree with Royster about the contrasting/clarity thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabez Scratch Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Looks very good. Download time is somewhat lengthy, even w/ high speed. Good colour scheme and layout. Movie was cool. Good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3dzapper Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Nice! Both the product and presentation. Maybe if the movies were loaded when the icons were selected rather than on entry it would be a tad better. The main site would load faster and the load time for each movie would be 1/2 the whole. YMMV. Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Amy Posted May 18, 2005 Author Moderators Share Posted May 18, 2005 Thanks for the feedback, guys, keep it coming! Just an FYI, if you click on Development, you can watch a video of our National Accounts Manager, Don Inmon, who has been with the company over 5 years and has been very involved our Multimedia line. If you click on Engineering, you can watch Rich Field, one of our lead acoustic engineers responsible for all our Multimedia products, among others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InFlux Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 I agree with the above. That was SLOW even on a highspeed connection. Nice look and feel. Kind of techy feeling - the engineering video made it feel more grounded (not pie-in-the sky marketing). Oh yeah, the styrofoam coffee cup on the top shelf by the scope was a nice touch in the movie... It looked just like an electrical engineering lab in college... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formica Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 ---------------- On 5/18/2005 11:18:18 AM Amy Unger wrote: Thanks for the feedback, guys, keep it coming! ---------------- Strong points: - Look and feel is nice, appropriate, and easy to navigate. Weak points: - To LARGE a file even for broadband - I find the page a little tall (ie: the info at the bottom may not be visible for someone with 12" LCD on an ultra-light laptop) - It produces a ticking sound when I flip images - Styling is more corporate rather than "avant-guard" like the iPod and it's campaign. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colterphoto1 Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Very cool, didn't take too long to load on my DSL, maybe the sound effects are overdone a tad. Liked the interview with Don. But I had to lean forward and strain to read the teeny-tiny white type in the descriptions. I'm using a 17" real CRT monitor that I use for editing photographs, so it's a good one, set up correctly. Could your designer possibly get a smaller font size? Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlieboy Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Very nice but Very SLOW to load on my business DSL conection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m00n Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Very sharp, very professional. Download very slow even on the fat pipes we have here at work. People will loose interest while waiting and navigate to a new page before it ever gets done downloading. Very impressive though... Top notch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonecj Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Two things....The speed is an issue. My school has an OC3 internet connection, & it still took close to a minute. If it stays that big, maybe put up an animated loading screen so viewers know it is not locked up, although the "no dial-up" warning should be a clue. Also, I posted a screen shot here to show one thing.... the lettering is not very clear. It seems too small against the brown background, & is hard to read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumpelstiltskin Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Couldn't wait for it to load and gave up....and I have a broadband (cable) connection. Rick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverSport Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 30 seconds on the nose to download on my SBC/Yahoo DSL here in Chicagoland...very nice and easy to navigate. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 I still think that a very dark background theme is a depressant, and makes lighter-colored or white lettering stressful to read. Sharpening up the lettering might help. The layout and pics are very good and very clear. Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill H. Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 Amy, two things. First off-even with a DSL verizon line, it took to long to load. Secondly when the engineer started talking, the background music still played, which was bothersome...........all the important info was avaliable, EXCEPT the Price of the Unit! For me though- too much flash and bang. Just show the pic's, and maybe the video..........Why is everybody wound up on Flash media? JM2C worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r.cherry Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 + easy to navigate nice music, makes ya wanna buy one of these good pics and movies - load time was a bit slow, i usually run about 3megabits /sec down and it took awhile... server ? or just too much info loading? not sure people will wait and thats not good. could make it a bit easier to read the text Overall very nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo33 Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 COOL SITE! Took less then 30 secs to load on my company network. Kinda big! Too bad, I can careless for an iPod! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formica Posted May 18, 2005 Share Posted May 18, 2005 I just would like to add that I think it's pretty unanimous that it has to lighten up. It took about 30sec with 3Mb and 60sec with 1.5Mb connections, which is WAY too slow for users like me who expect things quickly on broadband. BTW, "flash" isn't normally that heavy. My guess it that the site hasn't (or has been poorly) optimised. I mentioned a "clicking" sound when flipping images earlier. I do not get this annoyance at home as I discovered that it's due to the slower machines we have at work. The file is large enough that those PC's run out of processing power when refreshing the images rollovers and playing the sound, so it results in the ticks. ---------------- On 5/18/2005 6:24:19 PM Bill H. wrote: Why is everybody wound up on Flash media? ---------------- I think flash is overrated... it has it's place... but you see more and more people going back to html. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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