Well I've just updated the home design of my new hosting company. Si it would be greatly appreciated if you could please give me any opinion about it. How could I improve it, what should I edit, what must I delete, etc... All critiques are warmwelcomed. The site is: www.hipromx.com/host Thank you!
Initial thoughts: The content arrangement is bad. Looks like it's an outdated site(not graphical wise though, content layout wise) Also looks turnkey. I suggest as the first reply message did, get a hosting template that looks professional and corporate.
Its looks are not good! Change the template! That is very important. Looks like an old fashioned site!
Add more bright graphics, make top menu wider and add blank spaces. Also, you can get a modern website template for free, for example, from oswd.org
way too basic, it looks like something i could create (and i've been learning design for less than a month now). I would try and get a look similar to the large hosting sites like godaddy, fatcow, hostmonster, etc. They all look like they can deliver on their promises. Yours, not so much.
Well, the layout isn't too bad, and simple isn't necessarily bad either. Appearance-wise my only major complaints would be the use of a serif font in a fixed metric (px). Makes it very hard to read for people without good font smoothing and/or kerning (linux), or for people who use a different system metric (handheld and high-end desktops) The fixed bottom padding under the content I'd axe too, it looks great at 1200px height, but really silly on a 1024x768 display. Lemme peek under the hood - if you are a hosting company, you should probably have good code since your clients are going to likely involve people who write websites. Well, tranny doctype - this is a new page you say? Transitional is for supporting legacy rubbish, not for writing new pages. No language attributes or meta, that could bite you on search results. Style embed - old style like you still care about netscape 4, with no media types. Poking my head into the CSS, it's well formatted, but without a reset it's likely why the layout looks broken here in Opera. You have the tracker javascript in your header - this is incorrect, that should be the last thing in your document body. It also doesn't inspire confidence you are using google analytics since it provides no USEFUL information that you couldn't just glean from webalizer or analog. As a hosting provider you should know that. HTML itself inside the body tag isn't bad. You've got good formatting habits, though it does seem a wee-bit "DIV happy". You've got the right elements as h2's, though the lack of a h1 for them to be subsections of is a worry - that IMG tag you're using for the presentational affectation to the site title should probably be your h1, with the image applied via a image-replacement technique instead of in the markup. Still, for that handful of minor issues - I've seen far FAR worse of late.