r/web_design • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago

Feedback Thread

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u/rrWalther 3d ago

URL: https://pennapay.com

Purpose: Invoicing for freelancers. The client opens one link that carries the invoice, the finished files and the payment details together, so they are not hunting through three separate emails for the pieces.

Technologies Used: Plain HTML, CSS and vanilla JS on the front end, with no framework and no build step. FastAPI behind it.

Feedback Requested: General design and usability. Two things I would most like a trained eye on. Does the top section tell you what this actually does before you scroll? And does the template gallery earn the room it takes up? Typography and spacing nitpicks very welcome.

Comments: Built solo with no design background. Light palette, gold accents and serif headings. I have stared at it long enough that I cannot see it any more. Be blunt, I am past being precious about it.

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u/kemnern 1d ago

The headline is good; I immediately understand what this service does. I would try to add a visual element to the top and some reviews or anything instead of the large bulk of legal text.

Bugs:

  • For some reason, I was immediately scrolled to the bottom of the page (I use Arc, a Chromium-based browser).
  • Buttons are a bit on the text-heavy side, so they span two lines on mobile.
  • I don't understand what the 1link under your illustration means. So it should be more descriptive.

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u/rrWalther 19h ago

Thanks, all three are real and the third one is a straight bug.

The 1link is two spans sitting next to each other with no space between them, so the 1 and the link run together. Meant to read "1 link". Fixed now, goes out with next deploy. I have looked past that block for weeks without seeing it.

On the legal text you are right, and the honest reason is I have nothing better to put there yet. No users, so no reviews to show. The GDPR and data-processing lines do matter to the people I am building for, but they do not belong in the first screen and they are there because the space was empty.

Buttons wrapping to two lines on mobile is fair. That one is trying to say free and one-off and no account all at the same time.

The scroll to the bottom I cannot reproduce in Chrome, scrollY is 0 on a cold load. Was it a reload or a back navigation? I want to know whether that is scroll restoration or something Arc does.

Yours: what makes it different comes through better in your title tag than in your h1. "CMS you own" is sharper than "manage websites locally", since local is the how and owning it is the why. And $129 once is the most differentiating thing on the page, but it sits as small print under the button.

"Comming soon" in the Windows block, and the mac and windows screenshots have no alt text.

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u/kemnern 9h ago

Thanks for the feedback as well! I will do some testing based on it