How you present yourself 8/24/2015 to a 3D graphics machine and video cards.

I have an aging 40 inch Sony TV monitor for Tutorials and a dual screen monitor which uses a 19-20 inch screen to view the web. Believe it or not, the views on the 20 inch monitor are about the same as what I see on the 40 inch TV set. So, at 40 inches, rather than new information, imagine 20 inch buttons and longer mouse scrolls.

I'm going to try to take about a half dozen screen shots so you can see what I am seeing. It's not much.

Folks, Give me about 20 minutes before posting anything; I'll try to tell a story in order if I can upload images to the site.

Thank you
3DStories

When I come to the Renderosity Home page this is what I see:

It's pretty, and a nice enough header or title page, but at first glance there is absolutely nothing useful here. Yes, I can scroll down, but I wanted to show you the very first impression of Renderosity someone with a graphics machine sees.

You are relying heavily on making people scroll down to see things. Right now I'm not interested in the title page anymore so let's go to the market page.

When I click on "Marketplace" next to the Title in Renderosity, the most natural thing to do, here is what comes up:

Okay, I have an in-your-face advertisement for PSEG (not sure what they have to offer in 3D graphics for me, but not all ads have to be relevant), and four marketplace selections. I'm now thinking, Renderosity should probably have more than four products to look at, so I'll Bite. I'll Scroll down and see 'what's for dinner.'

Scrolling down:

Yeah, lots of jumble. Scrolling down really isn' t helping me see what Renderosity has.

Well, I am a long-time PRIME member, let me see what's in PRIME today:

My first impression: Same four products that I saw in the marketplace. Scrolling down will probably be the same jumble that I saw in the main marketplace.

Nuts to this.

I know a vendor I like. Let's see what Sabby Has today.

Go to the 'Search Marketplace' option I see at the top of the page and type in 'Sabby.'

The search returns 'printable map functions'. Hmm that doesn't sound like a Sabby product. Oooh. Something from Sabby to download. Wait. 'Speedtracker' doesn't seem like something Sabby normally does either. Did the search work?

Oh, wait. I see the tiny print.

It looks like there may be 200 or more results if I scroll.

Sigh.

I'll bite.

I'll scroll.

I know Sabby (and the other vendors) work hard on their sites and products and won't let me down.

Scrolling Down on a search for Sabby:

Even though it doesn't quite fit on the screen, the first two results seem to be for Zeddicuss and another vendor, 3D Figure Essentials. Did Sabby collaborate with them on a product? (Looks closer). Doesn't seem to be a Sabby product. Neither of them.

Okay scroll some more.

(Notes lots of junk on left; at this point I'm looking for ANY Sabby products, not advanced search terms. Annoyed that words are taking up so much space and pictures are unbearably large).

Scrolling, Scrolling (Scrolling down the River! - Oops. mind wandering):

Fitness Bunny....by Zeddicuss again.

Ah, finally a character!

Looks like a Sabby!

Maybe the search did work.
.....or maybe it's an isolated result, seemingly random placements like the rest?

Scrolling down the River... (hums to self):

This must be the intended meat. Looks like I'm on the right track. Lots of scrolling to do if I want to see things.

Nuts.

Lets just pick a product and take a look at it.

More humming. Thinking about rivers, swimming.

(Homer Simpson voice) Ah..... Swimming.....

Back to reality. Tomorrow's (Today's) Monday. Should have done THAT over the weekend....

Now what? Nothing is aligned. I can't even see the prices in a row anymore.

I know what happened. All those words in the column at the left must have ended.

What is the price for a Sabby item?

Have to make a decision on where to center images.

Is the price on top of an image or at the bottom.

At the bottom, as I recall.

Meh. Scroll on see what's at the bottom of this long scroll at least, then choose a product.

At the bottom.

Last Products on the page. (Finally)

Choose a Sabby Character to look at in detail:

What I'm presented with on a 20 inch and 40 inch screen are bars, buttons and a forehead. Look at the size of the scroll bar on the right of the capture. Think of how many 'screen' refreshes I have to mouse scroll down on my machine. How much of a Sabby product do I actually get to see?

It's kind of like taking puzzle pieces out of a box. Here's the Hair, Here's the eyebrow. Here's the eye....

But never getting to see the whole product. Or the whole market place.

And if you were to place this page on a Billboard in Times Square, New York City, I think you'd still see only a really big forehead with this site design.

Well, that's my little story tour.

Hope you enjoyed me stepping you through my thoughts of a website experience as the Renderosity site is currently presented to me.

If nothing else you got to see a really nice product from Sabby, right? (Sheldon asks: "is that sarcasm?" Yes, it is. Sorry.).

I've taken a fair amount of time to do this. If you're from DAz or CP, don't make fun. You've got you're own problems, too.

I'm probably going to take a break from spending much time a the Renderosity site for a bit because it is really difficult for me to navigate, as hopefully you all now have a better feeling for.

By the way, the only way I can add images is by dragging them. The select image item on the page is not currently working.

@3dstories: Thank You for documenting my own concerns with the new layout!

Doesn't all that scrolling make you seasick?

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Floored.
You are so right.
Really would cry.
Maybe I will do it now.
Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Let's hope it brings light.

3dstore's screenshot from the product page is why I am a bit sceptical to the new 1200x main product image size. Unless images can be dynamic in size and be scaled down on smaller screens, they are already too big. Imagine what a forced 1200 width is going to look like on this person's screen.

Yes it is nice to be able to see details, but that ought to be available on a second click/zoom, whereas that first impression on a product page should be an opportunity to see the whole image easily.

Thank you for taking the time to upload your screenshots. I have talked to Hope about some of the issue you have brought up and they are on our list of "to do's". I will bring your MP issues up to our MP staff.

Thanks!!

i don't suffer from carpal tunnel, but boy all this endless scrolling and having to drill and drill down further to get anywhere sure leaves my hand feeling fairly sore after a time. and trying to use my up/down arrow keys for scrolling as opposed to my mouse is a fairly time-consuming and inaccurate landing process because the layout suffers.