PremiereHost Design - Latest Upgrades

Discussion in 'Websites' started by Doctor Tech, Dec 17, 2015.

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    We are glad to announce that our new site upgrade has been released. Our new fresh look will provide a pleasant experience in terms of user experience.
    We have also updated WHMCS (our Billing & Support Center) to version 6.2

    Please take a look and visit us at www.PremiereHost.net

    All constructive feedback is welcome!
     
    Doctor Tech, Dec 17, 2015 IP
  2. qwikad.com

    qwikad.com Illustrious Member Affiliate Manager

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    1. In Chrome there's a blink when your first slider image loads up (it loads up, then there's a slight blink). I believe it is somehow related to the fact that the image zooms in and out.

    2. Not sure why your logo dims on a hover over. Shouldn't it brighten up a little instead? Not a big fan of your current logo, by the way. You guys probably worked hard to make it look the way it does, I personally think you can do a whole lot better. The capital P and the globe inside it just doesn't convey much of professionalism.

    3. The navigation button have well defined rounded corners, however all other buttons don't.

    4. You may want to add an About Us page. I don't see any.
     
    qwikad.com, Dec 17, 2015 IP
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    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    Painfully slow to watch load, goofy animated crap to cover up for a lack of content and piss off users on mobile, illegibly undersized fixed metric fonts, several sections of illegible colour contrasts, poor rendering "web font" that 90% of users couldn't tell apart from segoe ui or helvetica anyways (though it looks good in linsux... Winblows and OSuX make a right mess of it... Oh duh, you're using the Ubuntu font), annoyingly broken attempt at being responsive... (hey, what's that smell?).

    In terms of usability and accessibility, you are waving a giant middle finger at visitors to the site.

    The load time issues are easy enough to track down; it's 2 megabytes in 38 files -- while NOT as bad as some other sites on either of those numbers, the over the top use of graphics to hide a lack of content mixed with a number of the "JS for nothing" scripts blocking loading halfway through are likely resulting in a LOT of users bouncing before the page even finishes loading.

    For a site that NOT counting social media links I wouldn't be wasting more than 72k in 8 files on.

    Peeking under the hood, I knew I smelled something; it's bootcrap. Do yourself a favor and find a stick to scrape that off with before you track it all over your website's carpets. It is the pinnacle of developer ineptitude which is why your site is a bloated mess that is telling anyone not on the perfect mix of screen size and resolution with eagle-eyed vision to go plow themselves. Hence it wasting 34k of HTML on delivering 2.23k of plaintext and not one thing I would treat as a content image! That's easily anywhere from three to six times the markup needed!

    Because honestly, if you don't know what's wrong with code like this:
    
    <!--Begin Header-->
    <section id="topbar">
      <div class="container">
        <div class="row"> 
          <!--Begin Client Links-->
          <div class="col-lg-6 col-md-7 col-sm-9 col-xs-12 pull-left">
            <div class="pull-left nav" id="xshidden">
    Code (markup):
    You probably shouldn't be building websites. Endless pointless DIV for nothing, endless pointless classes for nothing, comment placements that could trip rendering bugs, pointless redundant comments, and really if you're going to use the pointless HTML 5-tard structural tags, they have one for headers, it's called <header> so why is that a <section>?

    That's one giant mess for what in my approach would be:

    
    <div id="top">
      <ul>
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    Then people wonder why I say that bootstrap makes you less productive because you're writing two to three times the code. Developers are dumber for that particular pile of manure even existing.

    Moving on you have broken incomplete forms (where are your fieldsets and labels?), false simplicity thanks to having placeholder do label's job, gibberish use of numbered headings with nothing remotely resembling logical document structure (A H3 right after a H1? REALLY?), headings that aren't the start of subsections (pretty much all those H4 shouldn't even BE headings)...

    It reeks badly of "semantic markup, what's that?"

    My advice, toss it and find someone who understands what HTML is, what CSS is, how to use them properly, and has a grasp of accessibility minimums like those outlined in the WCAG. There is little if anything I'd try to salvage from that mess....

    It pretty much hits ever mark on my What's wrong with YOUR website article.
     
    deathshadow, Dec 23, 2015 IP