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Have you looked at the designs of other astrology related sites ? They do not have a clean, blog/article like look.

When I first landed on the site, I was confused about what it offered. If you put up the charts app screenshot on the main page instead, that would have helped understand it immediately.

Take this comment with a grain of salt though. I'm not big on astrology, so I could be way off.

Have you thought of integrating this into facebook etc ? or am I wrong about the customer profile you are looking to target ?

Nice name, Btw.



> Have you looked at the designs of other astrology related sites?

Other astrology sites are ugly as hell, and I had to make a break from that style. Look at this site from the largest software maker in the area, straight from the 90s: https://alabe.com/solargold.html

But yes, my site is very confusing because I'm still on the process of trying to find what works. I create all my applications as subdomains of flatangle.com, that is why my main site is still confusing on its offer.

> Have you thought of integrating this into facebook etc?

I have an application which says the temperament of a person based on their birth data (think more extrovert or more introvert kind-of analysis). I though on creating a facebook app for this, but as a marketing tool for my other reports, so first I have to build them.


> Other astrology sites are ugly as hell,

Users of astrology sites are used to these ugly designs. This is the case with arcade gaming sites too ... which is why you see modern arcade sites are ugly.

You aren't designing the site for you. You are designing for the customer and the customer is used to and sometimes subconsciously prefers the ugly design. http://therodinhoods.com/forum/topics/the-reality-of-uglines...

Because there is reasonable doubt of the newer cleaner design, I urge you to at-least A/B test an ugly looking design that your target users would be familiar with.

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