Handmade 01 - Tiny gaming handheld project in progress

[Binky]

My first concern would be for the about of ugly javascript on that site. Not to be too critical, I shouldn't have to load scripts from three third-party domains in order to see more than a blank page! Javascript is a security menace, degrades performance, and is largely unnecessary.

The graphic designer in me would also suggest:

• Eliminating animations: the page shouldn't do anything, unless in response to the user
• Keeping backgrounds clean, especially behind text
• Give the user clear focal points, especially along the top and left of the page
• Keep to a small number of colours (unless it's for a clown or primary school)
• Websites should be seen and not heard - they don't need soundtracks!
• People visit websites with questions ("What is this product?") - make sure the site answers them!
• Different content belongs on different pages
• If content is worth presenting, it's worth presenting clearly. If it isn't worth presenting, what's it doing on your website?!
• Never but more than eight items in a bulletted list, it leads to tedium, self-righteous ranting, and irritatingly self-referential, self-conscious irony.

 

[erico]

Like some people said before, the page is crowded.
For me it looks like a page from the early-mid 90s. If that is your goal, considering the game&watch appeal of the hardware´s case, then I have to take my hat off, as it was done nostalgically almost perfect.... you´d have to add a counter though.

That being the case, aesthetically, I would just drop the circle focus, but that is just me.

The information is available in a good journalistic fashion and that is what matters, congratulations.

 

[FBnil]

What Erico said. The header is large and you need to scroll down to the blog papers. But the parallax while doing that is nice. And the new visitor will watch the video to learn about the how-to.