Let's Travel Somewhere
letstravelsomewhere.com
letstravelsomewhere.com
All you get is a full-screen image and some person's name in the center. There's seemingly nothing else to click on, nowhere to scroll to, and no nav.
It's not until you click that circle in the middle that you get any text, site navigation, or indication of what the site is about at all. And it's a pretty big leap to assume that casual visitors are going to care enough about Anoop from the homepage to dig that far.
Now I realize that there actually is nav on the homepage. But it's hidden where nav doesn't ever live and disguised to look like nav doesn't look. So for the purposes of a new visitor, it doesn't exist. I personally never found it.
For a better first visit experience, consider adding a title, some descriptive text, a clear "what is this" button up top that looks clickable, anything other than just dumping people into this thing with no instruction.
And I noticed you're not even asking people to sign up for your newsletter either. You're gonna want to add a big call-to-action button in there for that.
But seriously, I know where you're coming from, however isn't there some place on the internet for exploration and curiosity? Not everything has to be beaten half to death with the usability stick.
I, for instance, spend up to 9 months each year traveling the world so this site would presumably be something I'd be interested in. But I'm not interested in it because despite the name it appears to just be a link to some guy's homepage or something. So I left.
Naturally, since this is a supportive community of folks and the site owner is asking for feedback, I went back and dug around until I discovered that hey, whaddayaknow, there actually is some real content there if you look deep enough.
But most people won't do that. They'll just hit the back button and wonder why they named their site "Let's Travel Somewhere" when it doesn't have anything to do with traveling.
My advice is to let those people know that the site does actually have something to do with travelling.
Try the north east central parts of Western Australia: http://confluence.org/region.php?id=90
This scenic spot: http://confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=-21&lon=126 is only 443 meters from the Canning Stock Route and surrounded by confluence points that haven't been photo logged.
(Warning: attempting to visit these locations w/out proper preparation and experience can easily result in death)
As a general question to anyone; What public websites / API's return images for Lat/Lon coords? (Or provide Heat / Coverage maps for geoindexed images?
The front-page design is gorgeous. Big and lovely. A small bit of text telling you what the website's about wouldn't hurt though, and would make the whole experience a lot less confusing to a casual visitor. I also think it would benefit a lot from animating the change between slides, the abruptness slightly unsettles me.
I especially like the dropdown menu. I'd suggest it revealed a LOT faster though, it's very possible to miss that it even exists. It's also possible for slideshow arrows to be in front of menu items, which is a bit annoying.
I'd also quite like some captions on the images, but I suppose that's more of a matter of taste!
I always wanted to go to Cook Island or even Bora Bora so since I'm geting married at the end of the year I thought "why not" and went looking exaclty where they are and how to get there (I live in Brazil).
When I found that its FARRRR AWAY from here and literally in the middle of nowhere and after a 20 hours flight you still have 2 hours more in a speed boat to get there I panicked and instantly gave up going there.
I don't know if its just me but I'm really scared of travelling for so long to a place that is not easy in any way to get to (or leave) in case of any kind of emergency.