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[aragon_202_]

Hi,
Recently the template of a small hosting company that i work for has been re-designed, and it would be nice to get some opinions on the site. Seeing as i have my own comments regarding the site although my partner (work) thinks otherwise

Url: JSHosts

Thanks in advanced
Aragon_202_

[candypam]

Who turned off the lights??? Hi, I’m no techie, but as soon as it loaded I sat waiting for something else to happen. The landing page gave me the feel it didn’t load up the whole way. Matter a fact I hit refresh 2 times. My feelings are too dark, plus I tried to click on some links that are in the blue and they wouldn’t click through.
I hit refresh again and still would not work. All I see is dark areas with some highlighted blue areas that I can’t click through.
I think you need to turn on the lights so your customers know you are open ;o)

[aragon_202_]

very odd, the design is fully XHTML and CSS valid. I havent seen any problems with it in multiple browsers thus far, a screen shot would be nice if possible and possibly the browser / version you used .

[pixel]

Originally Posted by aragon_202_

Hi,
Recently the template of a small hosting company that i work for has been re-designed, and it would be nice to get some opinions on the site. Seeing as i have my own comments regarding the site although my partner (work) thinks otherwise

Url: JSHosts

Thanks in advanced
Aragon_202_

I just checked the site in both IE7 and Firefox, the design is nice, dark but not too dark. I don't think I'm seeing what Pam is seeing. The homepage content is very text heavy, but most of it is necessary information. I like that you have the testimonials from live sites, that definitely boosts customer confidence.


I was confused at first because it appeared that you had two headers, but the second one was actually the intel, cpanel, and fantastico images. In my opinion, you don't really need those images on the top of every page. If you really wanted it those images on every page, put it on the side or bottom of the page.

Your client area and main website are different designs, but that may be on purpose

Hope this helps...

[candypam]

Boy I must be seeing something different that all of you. Check out the sceen shot below.. I see the same thing today as I did yesterday?

[pixel]

That looks like ie6 pam, am I correct?

If that's the case, then your background is not coming through in ie6. I've seen that happen a few times. Here's a fix:

in your CSS, apply a float to the container that has that background style (it appears to be div#main). That may in turn affect your layout, but that float should let your background show. It's a dumb ie6 bug. Also, IE doesn't like min-height styles, and height: auto doesn't seem to be working for you in ie6.

Hope this helps

[sunil.lukose]

What I seriously do not get is why use images when the background is one static color, the area that Pam is not seeing can be easily solved by using background color and even if you are using image as a background you can easily use the following style to fix it. It's always good to have fall back color for background images incase image doesn't load.

#main{background: #E4E4E4 url(images/main_18.gif) repeat;}

[candypam]

Yes that is a shot of his landing page using IE6 ..the links do not work either. I just checked it on another computer here in the building using firefox and it ilooks different... Whew.. glad it just wasn't me ha ha

[aragon_202_]

Pam, i have seen that before although at the time i considered it a limitation to just the computer used as it was setup with spesific image restrictions and so forth for testing but thanks for the clarification.

Good suggestion for the background colour instead of an image and i'll look into that. Think its about time to attack to CSS and change it a bit.

thanks guys / gals

[gsisco]

The site looks really clean and nice to me, however:

You said your site is "XHTML and CSS valid". That may be, but there's no doctype, so it won't validate. It doesn't matter how well you write the code if it's not going to be rendered according to the rules you're following.

You can check your site here:
The W3C Markup Validation Service

Visually, it's very nice. I would personally change the footer links to they only have underlines on :hover or not, but not both. IMO, links should look like links. Yes, they have the traditional blue link color, but my preference would be to make them look and act like links - set them apart as such. But again, just my opinion.

As far as the CSS, that totally validates as CSS 2.1. There's not a whole lot there, but I would take anything you have inline and separate it out to an external file. Why make the search engines read through that?

Good luck with your site! I hope you've resolved any IE6 issues, at least until we can all say goodbye to that difficult browser!