@Adam Whitcroft - I actually have been thinking the same thing. My only worry by quickening it up was that it would become really overwhelming if everything was lighting up as you scroll.
@Sean Farrell Absolutely - it's a fine line for sure, but I think right now more people would miss it than would see it, which would be a pity. Great looking site btw.
This seems anti-intuitive, not just counter-intuitive.
Knowing these breakdowns would be incredibly handy for a viewer, yet you've effectively hidden them. Even if the reveal was instantaneous, you're still reducing the effectiveness of this information. Sure, they're very pretty right now, but this is a feature 0.01% of your audience will know is there, and even then it takes a tremendous amount of patience for a person to slowly scroll down the page, hovering over every single photo to get this breakdown info.
Instead, you should be making this information available as a filter. Let a person filter down by calories (eg 300-600, 600-900, etc), filter by time it takes to prepare, so on and so forth.
Additionally, make these bits of information persistently visible so a viewer can hone-in on a recipe at a glance.
Also I really suggest setting up some site caching plugins for this wordpress site. Get WPcache + a minify plugin. Then, use cloudflare as a DNS and set the cache to expire after 1 week. This will dramatically reduce the initial pageloads plus practically eliminate the pageloads on subsequent visits, and will not at all impact new posts from your wife (the only thing cached will be existing imagery and stylesheets, not updated content).
I think @Ryan Ford brings up some really good points. This is really nice design work visually, but from a UX perspective I'd expect the calorie and preparation time breakdowns to be pretty valuable to the user. Perhaps even critically so--I could imagine users searching based on either one, and in that case it'd get pretty frustrating having to reveal the stats recipe-by-recipe.
Did you consider maybe displaying these stats under the titles of the recipes?
@Ryan Ford Thanks for the suggestion. We had that idea in the future but wasn't ready for V1. As you can see, there are already 3 different ways to sort through - I'm not sure how much more we wanted to add..
I do have one thing to add. The "Loading More..." on scroll down kinda messes with me. If I wanted to get to an item in the footer, it's a little tough when more recipes keep loading. I know it stops eventually, but what if you threw in something like what Facebook ( sorry :-| ) does? Like it loads one more section, then give you the option to load more if you choose, that way it gives you access to the footer.
Maybe this doesn't bother a lot of people, and maybe you've already looked at a solution? But it's just my two cents :)
I do love the site, and think the progress has been great to watch, congrats!
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One of my favorite features on the new site is the nutritional breakdown stats when you hover over a recipe on the recipe index.
about 1 year ago
@Sean Farrell lovely interface ++
about 1 year ago
That's a great idea Sean - I think though the delay is a tad long, if you hadn't mentioned the hover change, I would have missed it entirely.
about 1 year ago
@Adam Whitcroft - I actually have been thinking the same thing. My only worry by quickening it up was that it would become really overwhelming if everything was lighting up as you scroll.
about 1 year ago
I just caught this showing the site to a friend. Nice touch. =)
about 1 year ago
Nice, I actually did miss it like @Adam said when I checked it out last week. Nice touch just reduce the delay a bit.
about 1 year ago
Looking great Sean. I've been following the progress for a while. Looks like you two have a great thing going.
about 1 year ago
@Sean Farrell Absolutely - it's a fine line for sure, but I think right now more people would miss it than would see it, which would be a pity. Great looking site btw.
about 1 year ago
Dude, right on! Killer Hover Stats!
about 1 year ago
Agree with the delay but only a subtle change will make it perfect. Such a good feature. Also great site content, will be checking it more often now.
about 1 year ago
Really nice rollover!
about 1 year ago
Lovely! Agree with others above.
about 1 year ago
Damn @Sean this entire site, including that sexy rollover, is stunning!
about 1 year ago
@Sean you guys have absolutely done a beautiful job on the site.
about 1 year ago
This seems anti-intuitive, not just counter-intuitive.
Knowing these breakdowns would be incredibly handy for a viewer, yet you've effectively hidden them. Even if the reveal was instantaneous, you're still reducing the effectiveness of this information. Sure, they're very pretty right now, but this is a feature 0.01% of your audience will know is there, and even then it takes a tremendous amount of patience for a person to slowly scroll down the page, hovering over every single photo to get this breakdown info.
Instead, you should be making this information available as a filter. Let a person filter down by calories (eg 300-600, 600-900, etc), filter by time it takes to prepare, so on and so forth.
Additionally, make these bits of information persistently visible so a viewer can hone-in on a recipe at a glance.
Also, I have no clue what WWP stands for.
about 1 year ago
Also I really suggest setting up some site caching plugins for this wordpress site. Get WPcache + a minify plugin. Then, use cloudflare as a DNS and set the cache to expire after 1 week. This will dramatically reduce the initial pageloads plus practically eliminate the pageloads on subsequent visits, and will not at all impact new posts from your wife (the only thing cached will be existing imagery and stylesheets, not updated content).
about 1 year ago
The idea is great but I agree with @Adam Whitcroft on the delay.
about 1 year ago
I think @Ryan Ford brings up some really good points. This is really nice design work visually, but from a UX perspective I'd expect the calorie and preparation time breakdowns to be pretty valuable to the user. Perhaps even critically so--I could imagine users searching based on either one, and in that case it'd get pretty frustrating having to reveal the stats recipe-by-recipe.
Did you consider maybe displaying these stats under the titles of the recipes?
about 1 year ago
@Ryan Ford Thanks for the suggestion. We had that idea in the future but wasn't ready for V1. As you can see, there are already 3 different ways to sort through - I'm not sure how much more we wanted to add..
about 1 year ago
I bookmarked the site because of the design, wife wanted me to bookmark because of the recipes.
about 1 year ago
Dude, I love it.
I do have one thing to add. The "Loading More..." on scroll down kinda messes with me. If I wanted to get to an item in the footer, it's a little tough when more recipes keep loading. I know it stops eventually, but what if you threw in something like what Facebook ( sorry :-| ) does? Like it loads one more section, then give you the option to load more if you choose, that way it gives you access to the footer.
Maybe this doesn't bother a lot of people, and maybe you've already looked at a solution? But it's just my two cents :)
I do love the site, and think the progress has been great to watch, congrats!
about 1 year ago
This site is so good. There's so many great details. Bodoni and Prox Nova is a nice pairing also!
about 1 year ago
Beautiful work, Sean. Both the design and content are top notch!
about 1 year ago
Really beautiful work. So clean.
about 1 year ago
i especially like the screen scan lines, just gorgeous...
no seriously the ui is great but ffs stop the fukin pictures of the screen lol
about 1 year ago