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.

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.

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.

At the bottom.

Last Products on the page. (Finally)

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.

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.

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 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).

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.

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.

Scrolling down:

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

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.'

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.

@4221755

Kristi your comment is the best worded explanation of the reason for the changes I've heard. I don't know whether it's valid or not, but it's the reasoning behind the direction, at least.

For my two cents the lead marketing page is really the worst, and it sets the tone of expectations for the rest of the site. It is disorganized, over-crammed and over cluttered. If someone had walked into a conference room with a bunch of charts and threw them on the table and said "put all this in there somehow" and the programmer said 'okay' and just made an avante garde collage of whta he was told to do... with the only critera of making it fit, that seems what you wound up with.

Fix the first page correctly, considering a work flow of what we all generally tend to look at and in the proper sequence, and I feel a lot will follow more easily by increments.

The login page, like what DAZ has done in the past, contains nothing valuable. I look to get past that as soon as I can. It's not welcoming. It's not informational. What I logged into before I was at least interested in viewing for some time. Transfer some of the information to that, perhaps, or make it the important welcoming page.

I liked the homepage dashboard that had evolved. I had a promotional bar on the top, and what was going on today, plus easy access to buttons for sales. It wasn't perfect, but I'd rather see you parse that page into what you need rather than do what you did.

In RISDI (Rhode Island School of Design) work that I've seen the best is to keep open spaces as large as reasonably possible and make everything on them meaningful.

I liked the date time and number of artists online. The new views button for product is helpful, but I don't think you need both a "like" category with numbers only, which seems a brown-nose to Facebook, as well as a review option, which is more meaningful to both the artist and additional customers, I feel.

More perhaps at another time. I have to go now.