RSSFruit.com Beta Design - Looking For Initial Feedback

[Gareth Hodson]

Hi guys,

I've recently acquired this design from Sam Granger and have very big plans for it! Would appreciate all comments and criticism :)

http://www.rssfruit.com/preview/

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If you'd like an insight to how the backend is going to be...


1. Homepage
News System
- Display just one news item – cut-off post after a few paragraphs.
- ‘Read More’ link to go to /news/ where all past news items can be viewed in full.
- Title/Post/Author/Date and Time Posted
- Users must be registered in order to comment on news, else they are presented with a ‘you must register to access…blah’ message.

Live Feeds
- Self-update in real time without the need for refreshing via Ajax.
- Display a maximum of 10 feeds at once.

Categories
- Show the top 10 most popular categories by amount of feeds they have.
- ‘View all’ link going to /categories where all categories will be displayed.

2. Registration
- Name (to be used for newsletter purposes?)
- Email address
- Username
- Password
- Password Verification
- Blog URL (Optional)
- Blog Feed URL (Optional)
- Subscribe to our newsletter? (Checkbox)

3. Live Feeds Page
- Display 25 Latest Feeds.
- Date/time posted, Title, Source.
- Clickable to full post on the RSSFruit website.

4. Login Page
- Username/password
- ‘Forgot password?’ feature – clickable so that an Ajax form opens with an input box for the users email address.

5. Members Area
- Change password/email feature.
- Manage my feeds (change category etc)/add a feed/delete a feed.
- Members should receive daily feeds via email from within the categories that interest them (they can choose in their member’s area). Email format:

Hello [Member Name],

Here are your daily subscribed feeds for [date]:
[Feeds here – html title]

Regards,
RSSFruit – Witty slogan here

6. Recommendation Page
- When a user is logged in they may insert the email of a friend to send a predefined email to them. ‘[Member name] has recommended RSSFruit…’

That's simply a basic outline, I'm sure they'll be more features to come. Hope you guys are looking forward to this as much as me!

[Paul White]

Wow, looks very good! I would give it a 9/10, try to change around the navigation a little bit, but otherwise you definitely have something that works. The product looks like something that REALLY interests me. I will be checking back for when it is ready. Will there be beta testers? If so and you need some people, just let me know. Good job. :-)

[INVIHO]

WEB 2.0 niceeeeeeeee:beer:

What's the use of your site. thats the part that I dont get it :( can you enlight me ?oldman2

[JonnyH]

When I saw your bg and your page was loading I thought ughh.. When it loaded I was breathtaken. Nice site.

[Kwek]

That's awesome, I like it a lot. :)

Good luck.

[Matt8]

I like it a lot too. Very clean looking and professional

[Galaxy-Hosts.com]

Very, very nice.

[Gareth Hodson]

Thanks for the great replies guys, the backend for this is now almost complete! Would love to hear more comments...

[cmartin]

VERY impressive! It's probably one of the best designs I've seen, to be honest. :-) The backend looks like it's going to be equally impressive, as well. Again, great job, and I look forward to seeing it progress!

Chris

[moldytwig]

i like it!!

great look and feel to this one.

i do agree that the navigation could use some kick. maybe make the navigation similar to the title bars (green or red).

i really like that glassy look...

how was it done?

[themoose]

It's a nice design, good job.

[iiPanel]

You did a nice job there, I like the water drops on the grapes :)

[DarkBlood]

Looks real good, no real need to change anything.