I think you need to organize the information
and a little bit of typography.
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hecl is just fine. (looked only at the home page)
But squeezedbooks needs some work IMHO
* Login/Signup seems to be just thrown in there. There is another list of links just below it and ideally it should belong there
* "What is squeezed books" block also seems to be placed wherever there was space. First think about whether you actually need that block. Why can't the info go in about ?The answer to "What is squeezed books" seems more like a tagline than a real answer. You already have the tagline in the header which is remarkably similar
* Too many horizontal lines in the header. It would look better if you your menu list has a background color and looks like a horizontal strip.
* Mixing of intent. "Recent summaries" and "latest comments" are list of stuff. But you also have "Write a summary" styled the same way. That is a call to action. Ideally it should look and act like a button.
* Long text: The last comment is very long without paragraph breaks. It looks like user generated content, so you can't do much about it but limit the amount of text displayed and add a "Read more". This will make the comment section look more consistent.
* The latest comments is a a list of li. That is probably OK but you should definitely lose the bullets.
* Play around with font-size, line-height and different fonts. If you want absolute readability, see what the readability bookmarklet is doing. Don't copy blindly because the font-size set by it is pretty large for a normal website. But looking at your site, you could probably do with increasing font sizes.
My 2 cents. Not a designer but is trying very hard to learn
design.
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hecl is just fine. (looked only at the home page)
But squeezedbooks needs some work IMHO
* Login/Signup seems to be just thrown in there. There is another list of links just below it and ideally it should belong there
* "What is squeezed books" block also seems to be placed wherever there was space. First think about whether you actually need that block. Why can't the info go in about ?The answer to "What is squeezed books" seems more like a tagline than a real answer. You already have the tagline in the header which is remarkably similar
* Too many horizontal lines in the header. It would look better if you your menu list has a background color and looks like a horizontal strip.
* Mixing of intent. "Recent summaries" and "latest comments" are list of stuff. But you also have "Write a summary" styled the same way. That is a call to action. Ideally it should look and act like a button.
* Long text: The last comment is very long without paragraph breaks. It looks like user generated content, so you can't do much about it but limit the amount of text displayed and add a "Read more". This will make the comment section look more consistent.
* The latest comments is a a list of li. That is probably OK but you should definitely lose the bullets.
* Play around with font-size, line-height and different fonts. If you want absolute readability, see what the readability bookmarklet is doing. Don't copy blindly because the font-size set by it is pretty large for a normal website. But looking at your site, you could probably do with increasing font sizes.
My 2 cents. Not a designer but is trying very hard to learn design.