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peterbe

Damn it! That's what I hoped I wouldn't have to. Especially the example under the form.

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Even a simple sentence at the top explaining who the site is for and what it does would be a HUGE improvement.

"Crosstips helps you finish that crossword you're stuck on."

"Need help with your crossword?"

"Can't solve a tough crossword? We're here to help..."

These aren't very good, but at least I know what the site is for now...having a description will also help with SEO.

Not just crosswords... scrabble!

I don't think it would be all that useful for scrabble. For that you would have to be able to input random letters and get words out. I didn't, however, have any difficulty figuring out what the site was for (the name and the icon made it fairly clear I thought). The "crossword puzzle" metaphor could have been incorporated a bit more in the design, maybe.

Well, Google does not explain what their search is for; why should you have to? Considering it is a niche market for folks that want to solve crossword puzzles, and you had enough people talk about it with each other, you could keep the front page non-descriptive. It is a destination site that people will visit when they know about what it does.

I wouldn't want to see a slogan every time I visited the site, anyways.

Change the tip word daily to mix it up a bit.

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