# Check - does it suck?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-does-it-suck/4769>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 19, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-does-it-suck/4769 "2002-08-19T18:24:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![djfrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@djfrey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/djfrey)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-does-it-suck/4769/1 "2002-08-19T18:24:10Z")

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Does my site suck and/or is the navigation counter-intuitive?

Here’s the link: [gearbolt.com](http://www.danfrey.com/gearbolt)

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-does-it-suck/4769/2 "2002-08-19T23:22:44Z")

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Very neat lookin site, but the menu needs to be more obvious. I sat lookin at it for several minutes waiting for something to happen lol. 😛

So when I realize its the gears, I clicked it… nothing! So I accidently dragged it… and dragged it… not knowing what to do with it! Luckily I dropped it on the other gear by accident. :o

Anyways other than that the site is very impressive. 😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-does-it-suck/4769/3 "2002-08-21T01:11:05Z")

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another thing you should add is a “BACK” button throughout your site subsections. It would be nice not to have to use the browser back button. Just a simple java button backing up your browser would be nice.  
Peace

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-does-it-suck/4769/4 "2002-08-21T01:41:53Z")

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Yes, a back button is necessary, and you should have some small text in there somewhere telling the viewer how to navigate, I thought they were just disabled links…haha.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2002, 4:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/check-does-it-suck/4769/5 "2002-08-21T04:13:59Z")

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Hey there,

I just gave a look at your site, and I thought it was good for several reasons:

-180K in total for a site is always good.  
-Wasn’t a typical knockoff (at least to my knowledge) of another site.  
-some of your portfolio work is pretty neat  
-[http://www.danfrey.com/gearbolt/portfolio/img/redlife.jpg](http://www.danfrey.com/gearbolt/portfolio/img/redlife.jpg) – being an example thereof

I think the menu is a little harder to pick up on, but it only took me (but that’s just me) 5-10 seconds to find it/use it.

A few suggestions how I think you could improve it:

- Maybe make your gears each flash for a part of a second, and then make the gear where they fit in flash for a bit longer. Or have a animation of a mouse pointer grabbing one of the gears and placing it in the appropriate place to bring up content.

- Maybe add a little more content, looks a little bit barren.

Good job on your site

Uthar:nerd: