Please review my new design

Discussion in 'Reviews' started by gab1982, Dec 20, 2007.

  1. #1
    I recently made a new design for my site bbdimension.com (yes its green) but i would like to know what you think, I have had mixed opinions about it hence why the question.

    I have built it in PHP and MySQL using no base script.

    Thankyou, I look forward to your response.
     
    gab1982, Dec 20, 2007 IP
  2. mattaw101

    mattaw101 Peon

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    i like the design, the load time on the site isn't THAT bad, quote wise you have 3 of the same quotes for your service, might want to change that up

    just my quick review.
     
    mattaw101, Dec 20, 2007 IP
  3. WarzMX

    WarzMX Active Member

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    The logo is boring. I would make a real logo (image file), and don't underline the logo text and link it to your own website, and if you really have to link don't underline, it's probably better you just create a "home" button instead since this is what most people are used to.

    Live support is: (surprise surprise) offline. Alright, you have a support chat and it's not online. I'm used to this, VERY used to this. What about coming up with something new? For example being online for several hours each and every day in the chat. Unless you seriously focus on staying in the support chat for a few hours per day would I recommend you to simply, remove it. It's disappointing for people AND useless if the support chat is never active. I'm not gonna comment much about your content in general since you seems to only be interested in having opinions on your designs, however you should mention where your servers are located and if you have any uptime guarantees.

    When you click the terms button the logo just disappears. You want to make the term page look like the other pages to keep it professional.
    Each hosting "package" page is pretty much fucked up, if you didn't notice the text goes over the last bar and looks like a big disaster. In fact, the larger plan I choose the worse it looks. When I click buy package I come to a page which also doesn't fit into the design, the page also contain errors such as "Warning: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/bbhost7/public_html/files/accounting/include/misc/heart/sql_select_functions.inc.php on line 440". If you want to scare away customers I'll say this was a good move. Especially looking at the right down bar with the php5 paypal etc buttons spread out randomly. Then it's the testimonials, I hope you intend to remove them until you receive some real ones :cool:

    All in all I would say it's quite unattractive design with nothing standing out and making you special. The green/white light colors seems unappealing and boring. Considering that the hosting business is hard to survive in it seems to me like you will lose out quite a few "first impression" visitors. I'm not really a fan of websites that are stretched across the entire page, but if your gonna do it, make sure all bars looks good. Also (this is more content bit) I see very little information about what you have to offer. Is there even made up a little Faq? Put some more content in, make a logo, fix the minor errors, change some colors, consider the live support and you will be on a good path.

    Good luck :)
     
    WarzMX, Dec 21, 2007 IP
  4. Shakas

    Shakas Well-Known Member

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    Well i like the design, but i´d change the colors it´s a little bit to "grey". Apart from that i like the design
     
    Shakas, Dec 21, 2007 IP
  5. cdmaximum

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    exactly. the greenish is kinda of freaky. Try Blue/Grey, and change width to 780 center instead of full page width. On my screen, that was wider then an Iowegan.
     
    cdmaximum, Dec 21, 2007 IP
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    swedal Notable Member

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    I like the design and navigation - the support issues mentioned previously should probably be addressed though.
     
    swedal, Dec 21, 2007 IP
  7. gab1982

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    yeah unfortunately the client isn't available for osx and vmware goes into standby which turns the support script into offline or away. I shall try my best though to address the above issues. The modernbill billing system error is being fixed and is in the hands of modernbill themselves. I am also still working on the admincp, but should have that soon so then i can add in the quotes i have on file from existing clients.

    thanks
     
    gab1982, Dec 21, 2007 IP
  8. GTWebs

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    I did not like. I found the strange colors... The image of background, for example "Hosting packages"...

    I wish good luck in your project.
     
    GTWebs, Dec 22, 2007 IP