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Hi.
I've made a website (content not all in yet) for a hosting/internet solutions company. Just wondering if you guys could give me your opinion.
THe URL is http://www.veloxsystems.net
It's not altogether complt yet but the outlay and general look is mostly there.
Would appreciate any comments/thoughts.
Cheers,
Basher.
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yeah nice, clean and profesional. Quick to load too.
The drop shadows on the dedicated servers pics is a bit iffy, but thats just being picky :)
dont forget to mention OS for the hosting.
Very nice site. Is there lots of money to be made in hosting?
Probably not in plain old hosting as that market is pretty much saturated, but in Value Added systems, e-learning hosted solutions, busines management, project management solutions, then yes, there is money to be made :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Famished
I'd also be very reluctant to even think about buying anything without a) examples of previous work b) references / testimonials ( real ones at that )
nb. the following is possibly a bit overcritical , but I've seen so many companies that are "site over substance" - Anyone with a copy of photoshop and notepad can make something that looks and sounds flashy - you have to do more than put a few buzzwords down to actually convince people.
what a site says it can deliver and what actually happens can be very different.
To be honest, your V emblem looks rather similar to that of Verbatim's. Maybe that's just me.
As for the site itself, you want to make the margins around the red announcement bar at the top of the page a bit wider - the text is currently right up against the edge. Also, copyright & brief contact details in the small print at the bottom of each page would help it look more like a reputable business. The same goes for a physical address and/or postal address on the "Contact Us" page. :)
Its not a bad site, yes its clear but the comments about content are important. The font on the logo text just doesn't look right to me, you have a regular form to the site and a quirky font used for the logo text.
About the V, I wouldn't say verbatim is close, but http://www.invisionboard.com/ certainly is.....
Matt.
There is examples of work on there, and like I say in teh original post, not all the content is in there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moby-Dick
That's weird, I really didn't intent it to look like that at all, think I may have to havea fiddle around with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt D
I know there is content missing , but my standpoint is that you dont offer anything more than the 100's of other people with some colo space ( which is dirt cheap ) Its the clear copy and paste from your hosts in the whole bragging rights bit - my old company where just as guilty. Personally I like companies to be honest about being resellers.
You really need a unique selling point to make people want to choose you.
From your other thread I notice you are a student. If I'm placing the well being of my Companies E-Commerce with you ( which may well be a key line of business ) I dont want to be told that you cant fix my problem because you have a lecture.
I would advise against portaying the "big firm" image unless you can back that up with "big firm" reliability.
this doesn't mean that you shouldn't do it , but it does mean that you should go for a less corporate approach. When I was in outsourcing / hosting / managed services , We actualyl lost a couple of deals because our Sales folk padded the company out too much the client felt that we where too big to care about them.
Thanks for your input.
We are making a profit at the mo which is good, and all of our customers are much more than impressed with the service so that's all i'm rally worried about for now.
Good Stuff - Running a small business isn't easy , and its good to see that the skys are clear at the moment. As long as your have adequate plans in place for when things start to go pearshaped you'll do fine !
Sites useless to me. Doesn't render properly in the latest version of Opera, I, and many other Opera users I know do actually avoid using companies who fail to bother to make their sites work in Opera, so you may want to consider making it work properly.
Could I get a screenshot of what it actually looks like in opera.
I feel teh design caters for a great proportion of internet users at it works in both IE and FF.
Cheers
People said that about using IE before Firefox became as big as it is now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Basher
As for the site, it's nice and clear, but the "latest" box at the top is really gaudy and it doesn't go with the site, plus the "fast|scalable|reliable" isn't very clear with the bars in between the words, at first glance it looks like fastlscalablelreliable :)
Otherwise, nice and minimalist.
Works fine for me in Firefox and Opera 8.5, Debian Sarge.
Site works fine in Opera and research has shown that most Opera users run the latest version. The fact that they're using Opera means they're browser savvy and therefore tend to keep up to date.
Basher, Opera is now free from www.opera.com, I suggest you download it and use it to test any web designs you do. By and large it's one of the most conformant browsers around although it doesn't support CSS transparency.
On the subject of CSS I note you're using tables for layout, I suggest you move to CSS, it'll make your site code less bloated and make any redesign work an awful lot simpler
Just went back and noticed there is a tiny delay in loading the background of the mousover in the left side menu. You should probably pre-load the image on page load or something.
Works fine for me with Opera... (8.5 build 7700 - win32 - not tried the *nix version yet)
8.5 build 7770, heres the pic:
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9...site2md.th.jpg
Sorry for the high and mighty attitude, really annoys me when sites dont render in opera, but as it seems it works fine for everyone else, this sites obviously just not working for me.
You've probably got the default background page color set to black in your Opera settings, the default is white. Look at Tools - Preferences - Web Pages. Because there is no page background color specified on the site your preferences override it.
Basher I recommend you add in a CSS rule to set the background page colour to avoid issues like this
Ah intresting, that sorted it. I had it set to black so that new pages didn't turn my browser into a giant light bulb at 3am(being bright white an' all). So apoligies for anger Basher, but I'd also say it'd be a good idea to set a backround colour :D