Naim control website content so flashy videos causing possible epilepsy or seizures can be avoided, difficult to control what we (the enthusiastic masses) add to threads via our posts, so easy to say no to GIF’s than having to correct/remove in retrospect.
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I find them disturbing and should follow the same rules or provide warnings.
Just because I’m all right Jack doesn’t work.
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The comments above about the animated blocks are very much valid and should be taken into account with other constructive criticisms.
In fact, this is the W3C recommendation related to this: Understanding Success Criterion 2.2.2: Pause, Stop, Hide | WAI | W3C
And whereas there is a button to pause, it remains problematic due to the subtle nature of the button, the subtle focus style and the location. The subtle contrast of the button and the focus won’t pass the WCAG contrast requirements either. Plus users still have to endure the animation in order to find the button, especially on small screens where the animation is present but the button is off-screen.
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I was thinking that a search function could be useful, but I couldn’t find it until I eventually caught a glimpse of it at the bottom of the Products page. Unfortunately it’s unusable on my iPhone because it’s hidden under the Apple control bar (as are some other buttons) and you can only see it if you swipe upwards. Then you can’t use it because you have to let go of the screen to type, and that makes it pop back down under the control bar again!
……and that’s only when the buttons actually appear. Nine times out of ten they don’t.
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Unfortunately it was already live, so that’s what we have.
Thanks for everyone’s input so far. It seems the marketing team and the developers still have a fair bit left to do.
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And forum members😀
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The source code looks autogenerated (i.e. not intended to be read). Looks like Laravel Livewire, a tool that runs in PHP on the server and builds the pages dynamically.
Doesnt mean anything really but explains why the site UI feels a bit “off”, at least to me using Safari. There is also a file missing “Matomo.js” but it’s only a tracking lib (see what the users are doing).
The site was easier to browse on an iPhone but when you click your way through the site it is extremely irritating when the “change language” view and the title bar shows up and use 30% of the screen on every link you click. There is also a lot of pretty bad formatting but mostly it didnt hurt readability so it’s not a big problem.
Personally I like fast “native” coded websites with traditional navigation better (I like when I can navigate the site with the knowledge I learnt on other sites).
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Surely it doesn’t have any analogue inputs, balanced or otherwise. How strange.
I used to be the Quality Manager for the English arm of a very large German electrical engineering company.
There were similar set-ups around the world within the company.
Although the main marketing was in Germany, each country had their marketing department to be able to represent the subtle differences for each country.
More importantly, each country had its own translation department to get the language, nuances, etc, correct for each country. One of the main requirements is using a translator translating into their Mother tongue.
Translating into English by a German, French, or whatever national never works successfully.
Naim will sort their website out eventually, hopefully sooner, rather than later.
DG…
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The website does seem a bit different when I just looked. Naim’s daft marketing phrase is there in all its glory.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
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A Powerline Lite. Here’s the sales spec sheet;
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A number of products state they come with a Powerline. If it’s the Lite it needs to be more clear. The lite version is not included under accessories- is it still available by purchase separately?
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I would assume so as I think it’s the standard power cord sold by Naim for the UK market.
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This isn’t fixed yet – not a Super Lumina speaker cable.
I assume the NAC-S1 is still AWOL as there’s no single image of it?
Power-Line Lite not mentioned under Accessories?
Personally, still not loving the fall-away dropdowns on the top menu tabs.
It’s still jarring to see a massive banner at the top of each page I open which often has nothing to do with the product – is this not simply weighing down the 'site with graphics, where the space could be better deployed to the product (I think as @GeoffC has pointed out?).
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I wonder if dealers are hearing feedback about the website from customers and more importantly potential customers. They (dealers) may well have more influence with management/sales/marketing or whoever is responsible for the website on how quickly issues are resolved - but then again probably not…
The NAC-S1 is included as part of the entire Statement system page.
But I agree, to get there you have to go to Power Amplifiers. There should be mention under Pre-amplifiers too.
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