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Roast my landing page - education industry

Hi everyone!

I've spent the past 3 months building out my new website that hosts a vibrant online community for Australian teachers who discuss ideas, share successes and support each other. This is built using the amazing team over at circle.so

Let me know what you love or hate about it!

https://classdoor.com.au/

on January 9, 2023
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    Please don't use a custom mouse cursor. This is not 2001.

    I like how the over the fold area clearly explains what this is. I'm a bit surprised there is no waiting list option. You are currently wasting a lot of potential leads.

    I find it rather unusual how in the "Is our Classdoor® Community right for you?" you are basically giving me reasons why not to join.

    Also, I find it unusual how you sometimes use the (R) symbol after your name and sometimes not. It seems inconsistent. I would leave it out. If this is your registered trademark, mention it somewhere but don't have the (R) symbol everywhere. It just feels annoying and pretentious.

    I like the fact that there is a screenshot of your product in your website, but I kind of still feel like your actual product gets over shadowed by all the fluff. There is a lot of text and reasons for me to join, but I think I would prefer to see a bit more of you actual product. Such as more screenshots or a Live Demo.

    Your first FAQ question "I'm a busy teacher, can I still join?" sounds weird and literally something I have hard time to believe anyone would ask.

    I really liked the story in the About page, I kind of wish some of this was also in the front page. Though, in the About page, the floating founder photo overlaps awkwardly with the bottom page graphics if I scroll down.

    The background image with the dot pattern isn't great for readability. I noticed this especially in your About page where I tried to read the founder's story, but the less than ideal typography combined with the busy background image made reading the story a bit difficult. I would suggest you strongly consider whether you want dots in the background, or whether you want people to easily read your website's content. It's either or, you can't really do both.

    Overall, I think this looks very polished, with some more improvements, this will be great.

    PS. That mouse cursor thing, though. Please don't do that.

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      Thanks Jouni for your objective and valued feedback. It's great to have a fresh set of eyes critically analyse a piece of work that improves the user experience in terms of clarity.

      You have suggested very valid recommendations that I was delighted to read that I will now work through.

      I also took the custom mouse cursor and threw it off a cliff.

      Thanks mate! :)