I like the idea that you are trying something new and different, but I'm not totally convinced it works. It doesn't seem that intuitive to me.
I saw your post, but I was already in the middle of updating the site, because I was not so happy with the solution inside the 'your website' cell. It's updated now.
You don't think it's that intuitive. Well it's hard to measure on a scale, which is the most intuitive. But if you can find these targets, it's intuitive 'enough' for you to navigate the website, which is more than can be said for a lot of websites out there. This is our goal.
Targets:
1) does
www.TRONgui.com offer a one-page-shopping product?
2) does TRONgui offer an investor opportunity for a new concept job market?
3) is there a community on the way for songwriters?
And it doesn't seem to render nicely in Firefox either. The listitems in each box don't align correctly and are slightly off the page to the left. I also don't understand why when I select one of your other tiles, the one I was already reading closes. What if I wanted to cross-reference between the two?
Yes I am aware of FF glitches, thanks for the heads-up. We are busy at the moment with setting up the shop for an upcoming project, so it's waiting on our to-do-list.
Both the TRONgui and new job market cells will receive updates in the near future as well. The site is still being built, in depth.
As for IE - that is a total disaster. You may not like IE but you can't just ignore it for that reason. Your users - and your customers - will NEED IE support. As an example, I work for a fairly major ecommerce site in the UK. We get approx 1m unique visitors today. IE is the browser used by the majority of our customers, followed by Chrome, then Mobile Safari.
The IE bug was a strange one. No one could figure it out. A simple table with position: relative;
Turns out IE likes position:absolute; a lot better. But there are more glitches, which are also on our to-do-list for later. We are too busy at the moment.
Last I checked 53% was using IE, but now there is evidence that it's somewhere between 8% to 25% only. Yes, I bare good news for the developer village.
What I really don't understand is your aversion to Responsive design. If you don't want to scale down to a phone screen then fine - have an "m." for that - but tablets will not show your page properly (disclaimer - I have not tried this on an actual tablet, but simply by resizing the desktop window), meaning the user has to keep scrolling left and right. On our site, the screen is re-arranged slightly for tablets (which is around 50% of our visitors now) to keep the site completely on-screen. And actually our conversion rate is higher on Mobile Safari than on any other platform.
It looks and works just like the desktop, on an iPad. We agree with Apple that websites should not be designed specifically for mobile devices. But as an example we disagree with Apple's fundamental website navigation.
You don't want to program for Google bots? SEO is the lifeblood of a site. You DO want your site to be found by Google bots. Trust me.
We believe visitors are the lifeblood of a site. It used to come only from Google. Today it comes increasingly from the people that use the internet, now that they have social tools to share what they discover.
The old paradigm has led to horrible websites for humans, which are fantastic for google bots. We want to change this.
We like to do SEO things, like tags etc. But we do not design the website around it. Instead we make it for the humans who will actually use the site first, and think of SEO second.
As I said I appreciate that you are trying to do something different, but what your customers will want is sites that can be found, work correctly in all browers, and make money.
A lot of websites can be found, all websites can be left again just as easily.
We all place our bets, in the end it's not the developers who decide, but the customers. You'll have to make yours as well. TRONgui.com is our bet.
Incidentally - most interesting new site I've seen for a while? The new Virgin America flight booking website.
I took a look at that website. We would classify that website as nothing short of horrible, and a perfect example of what is wrong with websites today. Several double links which overlap each other, adding to complexity on the front page. Bad navigation sorting logic etc.
A TRONgui solution would have looked totally different, but it would take us about a week to go through our process of structuring such a navigation.
We are planning on offering new solutions to various government websites in the future. We believe we can simplify things in a big way.
We never thought for a second, that a brand new concept would be praised or even accepted by the contemporary web design industry. That's just not how things work. But we are making a bet that the users will prefer something way more easy.
Our one-page-shopping solution is our first product example of a different approach. We are at version 0.9 at the moment. A long list of features is on the way.
We will be offering the users of the internet something new. Let's see where it all takes us.