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Critique this site :)

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episodic

Lifer
All in the title 🙂

I got lots of useful suggestions below and my site modified per those suggestions. Please continue to critique me. There have been no new comments since the 3am update 😉

:beer: for everyone that has given me good feedback so far


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Update for May 10th at 11:30 CST

Is this an improvement?

I've added some photos. . .

I'm trying hard to make this presentable. . . Thanks for suggestions so far.

Don't look at the links, just the index page - I have not adapted the photos and new style on the subpages yet. . .

Don't critique content, I'll get that right - just trying to get a style down. . .

Thanks for everyone's comments so far.
 
Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Did you get it from http://www.oswd.org?

Looks more like a blog, not a professional website. Need a little darker colors.
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Yeppers - I was trying to find a template that would work, and hey these are open source (yay!) . . .

I'll tweak the colors and repost 🙂
 
i've seen worse. You should probably drop the font size down a notch... and use more solid [dark] colors.
 
Purple and white+black text = total Shat.

Play with the colors a bit and see how it turns out. This looks like a amateur site.
 
Honest opinion:

Theres something I dont like but I dont know what it is.

The most obvious one is the title, its repeat of what you have in the welcome message.

The colors are plain, but its a lot better then the purple stuff 😉

The site is very simple/plain.
If that was your idea, then forget about what I said above.

Good luck. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: SSP
Honest opinion:

Theres something I dont like but I dont know what it is.

The most obvious one is the title, its repeat of what you have in the welcome message.

The colors are plain, but its a lot better then the purple stuff 😉

The site is very simple/plain.
If that was your idea, then forget about what I said above.

Good luck. 🙂
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The content that is there was hammered out in a few seconds, I'm going to get a better 'sales' pitch when I have had a little more sleep. I was wanting to see how this design would work for a small, quick to load, website. Lots of Arkansas is still on dial up - wanted something simple and easy to load.
 
I didn't know "unfortuantly" was a word.

"Are you tired of 'free' hosting?" I don't think anyone would get tired of something they didn't have to pay for. Perhaps you meant "Are you tired of the frustration and the hassle of so called 'free' webhosting"
 
Read my edit and I don't like the link "GoDaddy" right next to your title. Make it's sound like a porno site.
 
Originally posted by: OulOat
Read my edit and I don't like the link "GoDaddy" right next to your title. Make it's sound like a porno site.
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Great points, and I agree with your edit - thanks!
 
Originally posted by: buyer262000
Originally posted by: MrCodeDude
People in Arkansas don't have the internet. It's a known fact.
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I'm going to try to sell a few of them on the idea. . .
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If you seriously meant this, then there is a few other changes you should make.

1) Get rid of the top links. Clutters the page. Top is not necessary and no professional sites use it.
2) Move all the page jumps under about us to seperate pages, so that your front page remains uncluttered (and you can and should add pics).
3) About us should be a page

Now you should consider your audience
4) If you expect them to know nothing about the web and developing pages, then you should change the "Business Hosting" and "Personal Hosting" to simpler and clearer names, like "Business Websites" and "Personal Websites." Then on those pages try to convince the customer to use your service because you offer great prices and ease-of-use. So instead of the "Are you tired of the frustration and the hassle of so called 'free' webhosting" it should be "Don't be fooled by the so called 'free' webhosting. Those sites limit the content of your site and often force you to show their advertisements. The frustration and hassle of dealing with those sites are not worth it. With ______, we guarantee 99% uptime and we blah blah blah."

In any case, stick in there "time is money" and you would be gravy. Also edit it to be more professional for businesses and down to earth for personal.

5) If you expect your customers to have an idea of what web hosting is, then go check out some of the bigger hosters. Learn from what they wrote.

6) You don't need a conclusion link. Instead you can have a partner's link and put GoDaddy under that (with explanation of course).
 
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