Startup Critique Request for Qwanz.com - polling site with a twist
apsurd: "Ever wanted your opinion to actually matter?
Qwanz groups your opinion with other passionate people and lets you take action, together."I am a big fan of blatant one line descriptions of what a site does. You can follow this with your "why qwanz" graphic. I'm not saying this is the best line ever, but you have to think of what benefits you are trying to convey.Polling sites are boring. I'm not going to get excited about a polling site. Seems like you are pushing more emotion though. People passionate for causes can group their opinion and actually "do something about it". Sell that passion to me, not the details and certainly not "polling".First impressions:Terrible enterprisey, hard to remember (how to spell) name.I like the 3 top create, view, browse boxes. They were the first things I noticed and helped me understand the site a little better.Usability impressions:Right panel is too big. No need for that. Looks like ads. Encroaching on the content. Flash movie looks like an ad and could very well be thrown into a "learn more" page. Seems like you are trying to oversell your concept - dont add more, just be clear! Benefits, not features.Take some organizational influence from stackoverflow.
It's all about scope. You have 10 main categories. Each of those cats has filters and sorters. Then your categories apparently have sub-catories. I don't like how sub-cats are simply partitioned within the list.
The Main category "home page" should have a sub-cat drilldown, and a global (relative to the category) list of all polls with sub-cat tags. (think stack overflow).This logic should be true for the global list of all top level categories. I.e. like the stackoverflow homepage. A list of the top global polls with tags. 
Organization and scope imo is very important.Using this logic, you don't even really need a right panel, maybe just a tag list or other popular filters, sorts.Links:http://www.qwanz.com/poll/248could easily be : 
http://www.qwanz.com/poll/248/what-changes-should-qwanz-makethats it for now.