1. I am on Safari 2.x. I get a horizontal scroll bar on the homepage. Which can be and should be avoided. Maybe this does not happen on other browsers. but something you can easily fix. Spread the word page had even more problems.

2. Cloud is a great idea but fewer popular tags would be better I feel.

3. Consistency in colors is missing: purplish on tom, light blue with with imagine in the centre and the buttons. diff blue for the links. Not they don’t gel at all- but i think you gotta contrast things well or use the same colors. (Just to play devil’s advocate!)

4. The 3 buttons sure need to change. It’s not of the web2.0 standards.

5. Don’t think you need to worry if you use del.icio.us like color schemes or style.

6. Word of Mouth rocks – but don’t depend on it esp. to kick start things. press attention and some advertising (any form) should be considered early on as well.

7. Screencast takes a while to load.

That’s from me now. Like i said before the concept is great but lots of polishing is required. Get some “wow” factor in. Not too easy but keep going over it.

cheers,
Shalin Jain

I did not realize that the search on the site was for Google search, inspite of having spent a good deal of time there, so thats some feedback straightaway- i.e. making Google scholar more visible.

As I have mentioned above in the review, the positioning tagline “your personal research collaboration tool” seems overdone. In the information overloaded age as ours, its imp to convey what the product does in a simple, concise manner. What are your thoughts on this?

amit ranjan

1. We have put a ‘google scholar’ search which is quite a lot different from the normal ‘google’ search. In this, only research papers, journals, academic presentations comes into play.The ‘google scholar’ search is present so that people can search their related articles on google scholar and then bookmark it on complore (which can be done by a single click) for readily access. We have also put ‘site search’ so that user can search site for the content.

2. The idea behind the huge tag cloud is to make aware the users what is hot in the academic. It is a crucial part as the users like to see what other people are bookmarking.

3.We are using the best method of marketing which is ‘word of mouth’. Their are certain features such as saving and accessing your bokmarks, be in touch with the latest events , able to access articles, ppts and other things at a single place which make this site unique and we are banking on the same.

We would like to hear more from you regarding this. You can either mail at feedback@complore.com or reply to this comment.

my feedback on it:

1. Why have google search (is it a revenue source?)? you should rather be encouraging site search.
2. The huge list of tag clouds gives the site a little cluttered look. Probably, just keep the top tags there. I know the idea behind the tag cloud but i think it’s overdone for the homepage.
3. Like to hear out the marketing plan for such a project, just in-case the developers read it!

Good luck!