It is pretty - but it triggers a pet peeve of mine. I spend 30 seconds trying to get this page to "do something". It is just the photo and a blue bar a the bottom. No indication of "scroll down". I wonder how many people give up. I was close.
Are you on an OS that hides the scrollbar? I scroll any time I hit a webpage anyway, but even if I didn't I would look over at my scrollbar and see that there is plenty of room to scroll before getting frustrated.
No it was there, I just don't tend to pay much attention to my scroll bar. It is way over there on the right.
The designer of this page went to a lot of effort to make the blue bar at the bottom fill the entire page, without letting any of the "below the fold" content show. If you resize the window, it grows.
I don't scroll pages unless there is a visual indication that something is there. I have a nice big screen, so many pages fit fine.
Maybe I'm just an idiot who can't operate a browser properly, but I think this is a case of designer seeking elegance over usability.
right - that's why i missed it too. it was just the title that made me think "where's the report?". so i waited for something to happen (animation or so). next i tried to klick the page - maybe that would trigger the next slide? and finally i did scroll...
nice butt by the way :-)
Interesting, I always use a scroll wheel mouse these days and inevitably when I hit the landing page of a web site I just assume there is more if I scroll down. So in this case it never occurred to me not to scroll down. I can see how you would miss that if you don't have this habit though.
it might be an exposure thing.A lot of sites posted here seem to use a design that lacks scroll hints, but I never run into that design philosophy in the "real" world.
I only figured out the scroll down after seeing your comment. I was about to give figuring out their site was overloaded or similar and this was their fail whale equivalent.
For the record Chrome for me uses a grey scrollbar with a grey handle. I have to look very carefully at a tiny part of my large screen to work out where the handle is. (I have no idea where Chrome picked up the wrong colours from.)
I only finally starting to try to scroll instinctively after being fooled by so many sites here. I wonder how common it is among less tech savvy people to not realize there's more too the page if it's so common here.
I'm sure larger tech companies would love to do annual reports this way. If only reporting the number of pizza slices satisfied SEC mandated financial disclosure requirements...
I'm in IT Audit for a Big 4 doing SOX 404 testing daily, it might as well be pizza slices, the current regulations completely miss the point that bog down productivity much more than pizza slices do!
Chrome. There is an image at the top of the page, but the 'App' section has a light blue background.
In fact, the following sections (support, operations, social, etc.) don't render at all for me - just a background with no text. Is the page not broken for anyone else?
edit: Interestingly, the page doesn't render for me above a certain width of around 1000px. Was this intentional? It's pretty bad design either way.
Party Pooper mode in MailChimp is where the MailChimp monkey doesn't tell any jokes. By default, the mode is on so I guess these 39,975 went out of their way to turn off the jokes.
They're in the commodity e-mail delivery service too -- Mandrill -- in addition to MailChimp. Pretty smart to reuse the hardware, staff and ISP/RBL relationships they established with MailChimp to also serve the SMTP-as-a-service market.
I use both. I have sendmail on my servers set to route everything through Mandrill, so my apps don't need to be aware of what software/service I choose for e-mail delivery. I send newsletters/product announcement type mails with MailChimp for the design templates and subscription management.
Unless I'm misunderstanding your use of "cold-lead", I don't think MailChimp TOS allows these types of emails.
Last time I used them (over a year ago), you could only email people who had double-opted in to your emailing list, kind of making them not "cold-lead".
Basically we have a form where interested people can request information, then we add them to our lists.
And it's TOS approved because MailChimp has an interview process when you signup and you explain what it is you're going to be doing with their services.
Ugh mail chimp. Isn't it incorporated in Belize? Former home of John "badass mutherfucker" McAfee? Home of endemic corruption from highest levels of government? And we hand over our email addresses? What?
