OCUK's new website
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What is with the incessant need to rebuttal any negative comments?
It's looks like a dark version of a competitors site, off the shelf template?
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Dude you loved Win 8 with its "genuinely accepted bad design" - you're not resisting change are you?
For the record it looks gash to me too.
There's loads of issues with the site. First biggest one is icer 75%+ of the screen is taken up by controls and adds, you actually have to scroll down on every page. This is poor design in multiple areas, especial in navigation, to get to a state where you can't actually see any useful information without scrolling.
And that before you actually get down and go through each part.
As I said, if they implament critics, then I would go into more depth, if they aren't interested there's no point wasting many hours picking up and dissecting issues, like the % discount, wrong colour and wrong positioning. Red generally means bad, yet it's saying 22% off and is no where near the price or other indication it's price repeated, it's more in the general area other sites use for ratings(it could quite easily be changed to green, move all details to the left to line up with the green stock square, slightly reduce the overhang on add to basket and stick it in the middle there, so it's at least near the price, or even above the Was xxx.xx) . So far all they have asked for is bugs, unlike in 2006 when the site was massively improved by forum impute on design. It was also extremely poor when first launched.
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It has nothing to do with negativity. It's people talking out of their arse and giving completely meaningless criticism, criticism is meaningless when given on this manner.. What's your objection to him explaining what the generally accepted bad design is?
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Was thinking the same, needs some refinement for sure as there isn't much of a flow with different colours and styles throughout.
There are quite a few design "faux pas" with the new site:
- Gradients
- Blue text on black background
- Grey text on black background
- Site background with more contrast than the content
- High contrast red with blue
- Dark vignetted images with predominantly dark products
The homepage is overly complicated.
The menus would be quite easy to use if it wasn't for the huge range of colours from non-complimentary palettes.
For example, if you hover over "PC Components", you have a huge range of options along with:
Dark grey gradients
Dark blue gradient headings
Bright red border
Category image with drop shadow
The category pages are a lot easier to navigate.
All of the elements are there; it just needs a little toning down and a more user friendly palette.
Did I mention Gradients?
Gradients.
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There's loads of issues with the site. First biggest one is icer 75%+ of the screen is taken up by controls and adds, you actually have to scroll down on every page. This is poor design in multiple areas, especial in navigation, to get to a state where you can't actually see any useful information without scrolling.
Ineffective use of space, hard to navigate, lots of scrolling. Still sounding like all the things you defended about Win 8. It's the future!
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I personally don't like it, it's messy to look at and not that brilliant to use, poor design, sorry 
I assume this was put together by someone in their 'spare time' rather than a professional?
I assume this was put together by someone in their 'spare time' rather than a professional?
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Now that I have actually been using the site for a few mins I actually quite like it 
. The site does show off the products better and is much cleaner, I can see that the new site is now a mirror image of the parent companies (caseking.de) so this should make it much easier to code and programme for the two sites to share an updates to the software powering the back end or covering any security fixes with regards to the likes of Heartbleed.
Overall, Good job guys
. The site does show off the products better and is much cleaner, I can see that the new site is now a mirror image of the parent companies (caseking.de) so this should make it much easier to code and programme for the two sites to share an updates to the software powering the back end or covering any security fixes with regards to the likes of Heartbleed.Overall, Good job guys
Yep we are XD, not my design but about two years of work went in to making it work
You should probably sack whoever just wasted 2 years of pay building that monstrosity.
Get the fundamentals right, light vs dark design.
If this isn't a troll, i'm genuinely scared given how poor the update to the main site has been implemented. Especially since moving clients from 1 forum software to another is my job, i've watched forums such as this die nearly overnight from going to the wrong software (none of my clients mind you).
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All of those are the main criticisms of that aborted foetus of an OS. All the retarded sideways scrolling through the new apps. The metro screen with its Fisher-Price tiles you had to manually organise yourself to sift out the junk. The stupid window manager for all those modern apps that used space terribly.
Having just looked at the caseking website, where its the same template on a light design, it is infinitely better to browse, even with all the annoying junk thrown at you.
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I'm not really bothered either way - though I'd imagine the mouse-over nav dropdowns will make this horrible for tablet users (and will likely prove less than resilient cross-browser and for screen readers etc, certainly that's been the case in the past with this style though hopefully things are better now)
I'd test it with a tablet but I don't have one to hand I see the site isn't responsive (to size) - is there a separate mobile site? Too lazy to open it on my mobile 
Edit: I take it back, it's now harder to browse & compare products - so I'm now disappointed in the change Also someone doesn't understand how tabs of lists are meant to work, we shouldn't be reloading the whole page when on e.g. nVidia graphics cards to switch between 'All Products' and '! New Products'. Same with pagination and sorting :'(
Edit2: Eek, lightboxes! I'd be meaner but my work still have failed to wean themselves off lightboxes The popup that works even worse than actual popups.
(To be clear I think the site could use some sprucing up and modernising, just think this wasn't how to get there which is a shame - the developers are using poor/dated design with no clear flow and borrowing the worst of shopping websites from the last 10 years)
Edit3: Reading back through this thread...
Aha, knew that'd stuff someone up!
Edit4: Maintenance warning!
Be prepared for having two sites that behave differently, are both always broken in two distinct ways etc separate site for mobile is a pain and a mistake - they briefly almost made sense when there was a clear cut-off but with the massive range of devices of different sizes available responsive is the way to go now, much better for all devices and much less work for staff.
Edit5: It's not the biggest issue, but keyboard navigation, while technically working, is veeery hard with no visual cues and a lot of tabbing to reach relevant areas (rather giving away that it's too cluttered)
I'd test it with a tablet but I don't have one to hand
I see the site isn't responsive (to size) - is there a separate mobile site? Too lazy to open it on my mobile Edit: I take it back, it's now harder to browse & compare products - so I'm now disappointed in the change
Also someone doesn't understand how tabs of lists are meant to work, we shouldn't be reloading the whole page when on e.g. nVidia graphics cards to switch between 'All Products' and '! New Products'. Same with pagination and sorting :'(Edit2: Eek, lightboxes! I'd be meaner but my work still have failed to wean themselves off lightboxes
The popup that works even worse than actual popups.(To be clear I think the site could use some sprucing up and modernising, just think this wasn't how to get there which is a shame - the developers are using poor/dated design with no clear flow and borrowing the worst of shopping websites from the last 10 years)
Edit3: Reading back through this thread...
Aha, knew that'd stuff someone up!
Edit4: Maintenance warning!
Be prepared for having two sites that behave differently, are both always broken in two distinct ways etc
separate site for mobile is a pain and a mistake - they briefly almost made sense when there was a clear cut-off but with the massive range of devices of different sizes available responsive is the way to go now, much better for all devices and much less work for staff.Edit5: It's not the biggest issue, but keyboard navigation, while technically working, is veeery hard with no visual cues and a lot of tabbing to reach relevant areas (rather giving away that it's too cluttered)
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