It seems that the landing page has some concerns with explaining this idea.
Could you please give your feedback about it?
Website: http://tagmask.com
Thanks
The extent to which you already do this isn't really effective:
"Your personalized view of the programming world"...
doesn't mean anything to me. Plus you've used a relatively soft colour to this header - which doesn't really attract the eye all that much.
If the value proposition at a first glance seems interesting to me - then I'll expend the effort in reading more text.
my two cents...
> Your personalized view of the programming world
I wanted to point on a personalized feed, but didn't tell anything about that it's a community site/aggregator of programming stuff. Definitely need another sentence. Thank you again!
It's simple, so you don't overload the visitor with information. But it does the 2 things I assume you want the best: What Tagmask does, and how to get started.
It took me 5 minutes to figure out what your site was with all the vague copy writing everywhere, and that's only because I clicked on Posts. If you had simply presented the functionality of your site on the front page, I'd have known what it was right away.
Consider an iframe or a sample of http://tagmask.com/posts if you don't want to actually have that as a homepage. People are much more likely to "get it" by showing an example rather than a description.
- More white space. It's the easiest way to lose the "cluttered" feel of having giant blocks of explanatory text.
- Vary the fonts and font sizes. In particular, your nav. bar's font sizes are too big and distract from the section titles; you can lose the nav altogether for a landing page.
- Have a consistent coloring scheme. Pick 2-3 colors (maybe the ones from your logo) and stick with them: one color for the titles, one for links, one for text. E.g., using light purple for your secondary title text at the bottom makes them look like links.
- Make the "sign up" button stand out more. That's your call to action, and right now it blends in with the background.
I am curious, what do you think about the logo?
http://www.techiemania.com/5-awesome-free-tools-to-help-you-...
And another article with good design pointers submitted to HN:
As to the logo, the same ideas apply: more whitespace between the title, tagline and "beta", vary the font faces to provide contrast, and try using contrasting primary colors to make it a bit more dynamic.
And what do you think about the picture itself in the logo? I am worried that it is too ugly.
The very popular style for this type of website is to have the Your personalized view of the programming world and sections underneath in a highlighted box with the other elements, Use your personal posts-filter, etc, as small, clickable boxes underneath.
See: http://tweetingmachine.com/ (not the best example, but first one I can think of)
hope that helps, cheers
Aside from that, how is tagmask different from reading your favourite programming reddits? i.e. reddit.com/r/python+django+haskell+ruby+rails ?
reddit has more features, is easier to use, and has a larger community.
How is tagmask going to differentiate itself?
1. You can block posts with particular tags. For example, you can see post with the tag "javascript", except posts with the tag "asp.net".
2. You can block posts by a particular user in case if his posts is not interesting to you.
3. Tagmask provides filtering by your personal points for a user, it's sum of your "Likes" minus "Dislikes" for a user. When it becomes less than threshold you specified, you will not see posts from this user anymore.
In other words, Tagmask main purpose is to provide only relevant posts to every user.
Another key feature is that it's fully focused on programming, so we can add to it any special features, which make sense only for programmers. For example, it supports the post type "Code snippet" http://tagmask.com/posts/add/code_snippet Feel free to submit.
(I also did a Mixergy course on the same.)