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The tour pages are really well put together content wise; When trying to decide if a program is worth a downloading, I usually scan the screenshots page and make a quick decision based on first impressions. Comes across as easy to use but with some nice power features.

The landing page screenshot has been poorly resized however. I'd make that a bit bigger and prettier, and you could even go so far as adding slick little javascript tooltips to explain different tools. Could help your conversion rates maybe? Also perhaps consider using the same shiny green 'Try It Now' button on the bottom of the tour pages, instead of switching to a text link. Small grammar nitpick, 'How it works' is not a question.

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Thank you for your feedback. I quickly fixed the text and changed the buttons.

I know that the screenshot is badly resized but couldn't do better. I've used GIMP. What tool should I try?

Yeah gimp does ugly resizing. Python image lib would probably be better, or if you have access to photoshop that works very well of course (bicubic sharpen setting). Or email me the file if you like. :)

Other ideas- I'd make the top blue gradient extend the whole width of the page. If you're going to make your signup buttons with fancy css shadows etc, might as well do the same for your logo text rather than having it in an image. Any reason for the lack of spaces in 'Wireframing&Prototyping'? You've got 'learn more' text in two different formatting styles on the landing page. No need for external links to open in new tabs, your users will be savvy enough to use their back button. I'd consider burying the 'get it free' in the footer rather than by the buying info - perceived value and all that.

I've emailed you the original image. Thanks for looking into it.

I've just started improving the website design and striped headers and footers are next on my list. I need to figure out how to do it with Blueprint CSS. CSS buttons is something that I've added only a week ago. I've used the fancy-buttons plugin for compass to do it.

I've fixed that '&' everywhere. It didn't occur to me that there should be spaces. I've also fixed the links.

I actually thought about placing the "get it free" section somewhere else or removing it altogether. I thought it was a good strategy to acquire as many users as I can.

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