As someone who is also trying to start a job board, good work! Blog could use some updating and footer is a littly visually noisy/spammy looking. But love the main page and the quality of the scraping you did.
- I'd change the 1st 2 paragraphs in the about section to "Jobs Tractor looks for people trying to hire developers on Twitter, but filters out tweets that are from recruitment agencies or jobs boards."
- Love the map view
- Does the search field allow you to filter by location, keyword, or both?
- Group by location maybe?
- I'd take the word "jobs" out of the logo - to me it looks cluttered
- Do you save the posts or is it just what the Twitter search API pulls up? Jobs might not get tweeted about more than once, so a posting could still be legitimate after a week or so
Thanks for the reply, but isn't that the sort of thing that should be clearer on the site?
After going back and reading the big blurb on the homepage, I can see a mention about the recruiters now, but really, who reads big blurbs like that?
I just think yous need to do more to emphasise the quality angle and stand out from the hundreds of sites that just bought a job board WordPress theme.
I think the tools section is mostly good to go, I'm on mobile and there is a lot of scrolling involved for each section. Perhaps make it even more modular and collapsable?
For the Jobs, I would suggest sorting and filtering like how Angel List provides.
It is cool to see a list of front end jobs, but it would be good to sort and filter by company size, location, etc if available.
Hey Chris, great way to get back! My only suggestion is to add some larger margins between your job listings for readability and maybe make the "Hey Craigslist’er" headline a little larger or a different color to stand out. Initially I couldn't tell what I was looking at.
Initial feedback - It's a fairly clean page, but it's cluttered, and a little disorganized.
My eye is immediately drawn to the giant orange banner. So it takes me a second to adjust and start looking around. Finally I notice "Positions Available", but it's at the bottom right - literally one of the last places my eye naturally falls. I then need to scroll down to see the whole list, but it sort of blends in with the rest of the page.
I like how you've got a bunch of fun shots of your office, and of the team having a good time (it sure looks like a nice place to work, and the Seaport is a nice enough area, transportation and lunch/afterwork-wise that it would enticing for someone who wanted a job in the city), but to me I had to actually work a little bit to find the content I cared about on the page, so my interest fades fast.
If I had a suggestion for you, it would be to reduce the huge banner, and maybe re-organize the page. Make the actual job listings more front and center, and put the stuff detailing how great your team is below it - or on a seperate page that you actively pimp out from your job postings page... (Now that you've seen the jobs, check out why you should work here! sort of thing).
But I'm no design specialist. So maybe I'm way off base here. Good luck with the company, that sounds like a cool space to be in.
Someone interested would have to scroll a while to see your skills, which are in the footer. Otherwise, seems like you fixed the href mistake in your first paragraph since I looked at this earlier.
Looks goood so far - I just think you can seperate some stuff out into sub pages or something.
Great feedback. Will work on each one. Yes the blog menu really needs rework and we had been planning on migrating to wordpress with a design same as that of website.
Very cool! I have something similar (http://TJBiddle.info) but your page has much more friendly feel to it - My design skills aren't very good :-) - And my JS is/was pretty horrendous, definitely need to re-write when I get some time.
Definitely throw in some more details about your work history and what not - Add more commands! Just having a LinkedIn button on the bottom isn't quite enough in my opinion.
About the 301 redirects - it doesn't take much effort. People don't make mistakes too often, but when they do I wouldn't like to lose visitors that came from their link. I have currently fixed a few links that I have noticed via URL rewriting, but it's web server specific, and I want to brink it to application level to have all the site configuration centralized from admin menu.
Managing this tiny feature won't take much of my time and I will still be able to produce quality articles.
About the job board. Oh, didn't think of that. You are right. I will set this idea a lower priority and just keep producing good content until I hit critical mass. :)
"how it works" is a bit convoluted. Perhaps distinguish between advertiser, publisher and job seeker and explain how your service helps them. The design in general is not as clean as it could be, and the font-sizes on the first page seems random. Maybe you could emphasize important parts and leave out less important ones.
The links in your widgets seem to be broken "post a job" and the image-link end up on the start page, not shure this is intentional.
Apart from design, I think the idea is neat. I am not shure how your payout compares to regular advertisement, but the posibility of a large profit might convince a lot of people to put your widgets on their page.
It looks very amateur based on the front page. That's feedback regarding your comment about traction. I think it's great you got it out there. Clean it up a bit and pass out some flyers at job fairs!
Simply adding this: A search engine that helps people find work on the internet. (From the about page) or something similar right under the title would make it much easier to get what it is at first glance
Some other feedback: the text descriptions for jobs seems a bit wide and hard to read for me.
I think it would benefit from better text contrast (I find it hard to read lighter grays on white.
Otherwise it looks interesting, though I don't see a startup point other than sponsored listings.
We pushed a fix that includes cleaning up the footer thanks for the feedback.
I can see the linkjack/adsense page look and feel, any thoughts on what gives it that vibe? Is it just that we have a collection of plain text links at the bottom of the page? Would adding some more content or more text describing the site help give it a more valid look?
as a designer I would say the front page is a nice start but there are some details I would clean up.
the "Build your own mobile web in 5 minutes." does not look great and probably needs to be an image.
I would make the text box to "Mobilize your blog" bigger and more of a focus of the top of the page as it feels a little hidden.
The fade to white around the images in the yellow box do not look great. I would take off the shading and perhaps just use a darker yellow border or something. Images that look crisp are always the best.
Other wise it looks great and was super easy to signup for. On the first occasion the "phone emulator" got stuck on my mouse and I could not close it with out refreshing the page. I have not been able to reproduce it though.
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