Critique of vyrso.com

This site relies on rollovers to provide book descriptions. As a result, in the browser on my android tablet (and I assume on my iPad), I can get no product descriptions. This seems fundamentally flawed for a site aimed at selling books to a mobile market.

Further, clicking on the book cover or book title takes one straight to the checkout. This is most unexpected behaviour. I would assume that it would take me to a book description.

I think that it is a mistake to use the logos.com checkout. I wonder what non-logos users will think of being taken from one domain to another when purchasing books.

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JT (alabama24)

Damian -

Vyrso is in its "pre-launch" phase. I agree that it is a little awkward right now, but I believe when it officially launches, things will be much smoother.

Jacob Hantla

Good catch Damian.

Paul N

I was surfing logos.com on an iPad at the Apple store earlier this year and noticed the same issue on the logos.com front page. Any rollovers are virtually impossible to navigate. I even asked one of the associates on the floor. We both shrugged. Is there a technique to work around this? (ie accessing the drop down menus?)

Rosie Perera

Further, clicking on the book cover or book title takes one straight to the checkout. This is most unexpected behaviour. I would assume that it would take me to a book description.

I agree. This was a shock to me. I might expect the Add to cart button to take me right to the checkout, but not clicking on the title or book cover.

fgh

Further, clicking on the book cover or book title takes one straight to the checkout. This is most unexpected behaviour. I would assume that it would take me to a book description.

I agree. This was a shock to me. I might expect the Add to cart button to take me right to the checkout, but not clicking on the title or book cover.

It's even worse than that: I clicked in the empty space between two book covers yesterday (trying to get rid of an annoying popup that wouldn't go away), and even that sent me to the checkout. Talk about unwanted behaviour!

Tobias Lampert

This site relies on rollovers to provide book descriptions. As a result, in the browser on my android tablet (and I assume on my iPad), I can get no product descriptions. This seems fundamentally flawed for a site aimed at selling books to a mobile market.

Further, clicking on the book cover or book title takes one straight to the checkout. This is most unexpected behaviour. I would assume that it would take me to a book description.

I think that it is a mistake to use the logos.com checkout. I wonder what non-logos users will think of being taken from one domain to another when purchasing books.

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NB.Mick

This site relies on rollovers to provide book descriptions. As a result, in the browser on my android tablet (and I assume on my iPad), I can get no product descriptions.

I am sometimes using IE 7 on a PC where I can't update to more recent IE versions or other browsers. The book descriptions will appear, but they are semi-transparent or not on top of the stack of virtual pictures piled on the screen, thus they are nearly unreadable due to overlaying pictures from nearby books.

Damian McGrath

I am sometimes using IE 7 on a PC where I can't update to more recent IE versions or other browsers.

Wow - that's a mess.

Friedrich

I am sometimes using IE 7 on a PC where I can't update to more recent IE versions or other browsers.

Wow - that's a mess.

at the hospital where I work, we still had IE 6, I think. It really sucked. I couldn't sign up for the iPad2, either. Had to wait till i got home. Ahh, the trials of life!

NB.Mick

Well guys, the point is not about the poor situation of people with old browsers and without new gadgets, but since Logos sometimes seems to test only current versions (remember the facebook sales list, anybody?), it might be helpful to inform them when some of their websites don't run on certain configurations - after all, this might mean lost revenue to Logos. Outdated browsers (and OS versions) are not that uncommon, especially in the broader marketplace that Logos wants to grow into.

Mick

Phil Gons (Logos)

Damian, thanks for the feedback. As someone pointed out, Vyrso.com hasn't officially been launched yet. Right now, it's a temporary site (coded by the Marketing Department!) mainly about the giveaway and getting the word out. It's not as much about selling books at this point. When it launches, it will have it's own product pages and it's own shopping cart and checkout process. In the meantime, we're having to share some of this with Logos.com. There is a note informing users that they will be sent to Logos.com to check out. We opted not to create product pages on Logos.com and figured that most people would recognize these books since they are bestsellers or could look them up on the publisher's site or Amazon.

Damian McGrath

Thanks Phil.

I hope that when it is launched that it is tested intensively on iOS and android.

One of the things which I discovered the other day is that I cannot delete items from my shopping cart on my iPad. I guess clearing teh cache or some such will be the only way to resolve this.

There is a note informing users that they will be sent to Logos.com to check out.

I discovered this only much later when I had finally scrolled all the way to the bottom of the page. It is very unobtrusive