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stftk14

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:45 pm
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Hello,

We have very recently launched our new site. It is located at
www.dynamohosting.net .

I am looking for either reviews or just whether the images and format looks
ok in various browsers.

Our designer, Zaireweb, worked hard over a period of about 2 weeks on this
site and we are very happy on it, and we are looking for people to review
it.

I appreciate any comments and thank you for your time.

Thanks,
Dan
www.DynamoHosting.net

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:45 pm
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"Dan DeVincent" <stftk14 DeleteThis @wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
news:XuWdnWczeJbnJZjd4p2dnA@wideopenwest.com...
 > Hello,
 >
 > We have very recently launched our new site. It is located at
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamohosting.net" target="_blank">www.dynamohosting.net</a> .
 >
 > I am looking for either reviews or just whether the images and format
looks
 > ok in various browsers.
 >
 > Our designer, Zaireweb, worked hard over a period of about 2 weeks on this
 > site and we are very happy on it, and we are looking for people to review
 > it.
 >
 > I appreciate any comments and thank you for your time.
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Dan
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.DynamoHosting.net</font" target="_blank">www.DynamoHosting.net</font</a>>
 >

The menu is very, very tweaky.
Should consider changing or stabilizing it. Frustrasting to get through.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:26 am
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"Dan DeVincent" <stftk14.TakeThisOut@wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
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 > Hello,
 >
 > We have very recently launched our new site. It is located at
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamohosting.net" target="_blank">www.dynamohosting.net</a> .
 >
 > I am looking for either reviews or just whether the images and format
 > looks ok in various browsers.
 >
 > Our designer, Zaireweb, worked hard over a period of about 2 weeks on
 > this site and we are very happy on it, and we are looking for people
 > to review it.
 >
 > I appreciate any comments and thank you for your time.
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Dan
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.DynamoHosting.net</font" target="_blank">www.DynamoHosting.net</font</a>>

I can't tell what the image on the left is and the one on the right is
adequate but not inspiring. The menu acts a little flaky as I run my
pointer back and forth across it.

Everything else looks fine to me.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:45 am
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:45:48 -0500, Dan DeVincent wrote:

 > Hello,
 >
 > We have very recently launched our new site. It is located at
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamohosting.net" target="_blank">www.dynamohosting.net</a> .
 >
 > I am looking for either reviews or just whether the images and format looks
 > ok in various browsers.
 >
 > Our designer, Zaireweb, worked hard over a period of about 2 weeks on this
 > site and we are very happy on it, and we are looking for people to review
 > it.
 >
 > I appreciate any comments and thank you for your time.
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Dan
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.DynamoHosting.net</font" target="_blank">www.DynamoHosting.net</font</a>>

Apart from using the back button on my browser, there doesn't seem to be an
easy way to get back to the home page from the forums.

Nice looking site though
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saz1958

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:57 am
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In article <XuWdnWczeJbnJZjd4p2dnA.RemoveThis@wideopenwest.com>, stftk14
@wideopenwest.com says...
 > Hello,
 >
 > We have very recently launched our new site. It is located at
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamohosting.net" target="_blank">www.dynamohosting.net</a> .
 >
 > I am looking for either reviews or just whether the images and format looks
 > ok in various browsers.
 >
 > Our designer, Zaireweb, worked hard over a period of about 2 weeks on this
 > site and we are very happy on it, and we are looking for people to review
 > it.
 >
 > I appreciate any comments and thank you for your time.
 >
 > Thanks,
 > Dan
<font color=purple> > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.DynamoHosting.net</font" target="_blank">www.DynamoHosting.net</font</a>>
 >
 >
 >
Nice site, but the menu doesn't always display properly, it keeps
getting "stuck". I'm running IE6 and Mozilla 1.5, Win XP, 2800 Athlon,
512 ram - so it isn't on my end.

I went to your designer's site to check out his work. Interesting. You
may want to mention to him that his site needs a little more content if
he expects to pick up any more business.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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user162

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(Msg. 6) Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:00 am
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"Dan DeVincent" <stftk14.TakeThisOut@wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
news:XuWdnWczeJbnJZjd4p2dnA@wideopenwest.com...
 > Hello,
 >
 > We have very recently launched our new site. It is located at
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamohosting.net" target="_blank">www.dynamohosting.net</a> .
 >
 > I am looking for either reviews or just whether the images and format
looks
 > ok in various browsers.
 >
 > Our designer, Zaireweb, worked hard over a period of about 2 weeks on this
 > site and we are very happy on it, and we are looking for people to review
 > it.
 >
 > I appreciate any comments and thank you for your time.

Fixed width - a waste of my canvas.

Font sizes coded in pixel, and a stupidly small number of them. This
precludes anybody using IE from changing their font size, unless the
accessibility options are used.

Over to Mozilla where I *can* change the font size.

Pictures of text, especially the most important part of your site: the
description of your plans.

I guess, since I can't read this, I will shop elsewhere for a host.

The HTML.

Hmmm...
<img src="media/images/mechanical4.jpg" alt="mechanical4.jpg" width="350"
height="50" />

The alt text is meant to be a substitute for the image, not it's name, and
what is an XHTML element doing in a HTML document. Why for that matter is it
transitional? New designs should be strict.

This:
<tr>
<form method="post" action="cpanel.php">
<td style="background: url(media/images/login_bg.gif)
no-repeat; height: 90px;">
is just plain invalid. You can *not* have a form inside a <tr>.

Hang on a tick...
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dynamohosting.net%2F" target="_blank">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dynamohosting.net%2F</a>
Yep, just as I thought. The validator barfs.

I hope you didn't pay Zaireweb much for this Smile

Cheers
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shit

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(Msg. 7) Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 1:23 pm
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in post: <news:XuWdnWczeJbnJZjd4p2dnA@wideopenwest.com>
"Dan DeVincent" <stftk14 RemoveThis @wideopenwest.com> said:

 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamohosting.net" target="_blank">http://www.dynamohosting.net</a>

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.dynamohosting.net/" target="_blank">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.dynamohosting.net/</a>

 > I am looking for either reviews or just whether the images and format looks
 > ok in various browsers.

without valid markup browsers are just guessing what its supposed to
look like.

a) they may guess wrong.
b) they may not bother guessing at all.
c) they may not all guess the same way.
d) they may change the way they guess.
e) different versions may guess differently.
f) some markup may change the way they guess.
g) very few people would know how search engines guess - or do they?



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davidvb3

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(Msg. 8) Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 4:46 pm
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Dan DeVincent wrote:
 > Hello,
 >
 > We have very recently launched our new site. It is located at
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamohosting.net" target="_blank">www.dynamohosting.net</a> .
 >
 > I am looking for either reviews or just whether the images and format looks
 > ok in various browsers.
 >
 > Our designer, Zaireweb, worked hard over a period of about 2 weeks on this
 > site and we are very happy on it, and we are looking for people to review
 > it.
 >
 > I appreciate any comments and thank you for your time.

I think it displays as intended in Mozilla.

Design-wise, it seems to me to be a very awkward site that is stuck
between the dark, low contrast complex and almost 'futuristic' image as
seen through the "Offering advanced technologies on high quality
equipment" graphic, and the light, high contrast, cleanliness and
simplicity of the rest of the page. I don't think either option is
better than the other, but you should select one and stick with it
(depending on your intended image and future business plans, etc). Also,
I think that the 'band' of dark backgrounds across the page acts to
separate your banner and content, which I don't think is a good thing.

If you want the clean simplicity which shows reliability (but a lack of
flair), I would get rid of the grey image. If you want to show that you
are on the cutting edge and are out there, go for the greyscale image
and get rid of the handshake. In this case I would also get the logo
redesigned in the same vein and make the total masthead/navigation area
take up less vertical space, as it seems to me to encroach on where the
content should be.

Whatever you do, I definitely think you should move the navigation. In
its current form it seems as if it was aligned to the left of the page,
but was then accidentally put in the center. It is also hidden between
the two eye-catching images. I would move the whole navigation to the
right of the page and make the text right aligned (move the images and
the mouseovers to the other side and ditto to what the others said about
the dhtml). It should also be re-styled to stand out a little more (or
more to the point, hold its own, but not become an eye-catcher itself).

It is also hard to notice the home and contact buttons in the top right.

Overall I would say your design is confused.

Content-wise, I was looking at your plan pages, and it was only on a
second round that I realised that I could get more detailed info about
the plans from the comparison page. Each plan page should have the basic
info about what technologies are available IMO. I am more interested in
whether you support PHP than what management panel you use.

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stftk14

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(Msg. 9) Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 5:38 pm
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"SAZ" <saz1958.TakeThisOut@nospammersexcite.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1a6fd9b6d22686df989691@news.core.com...
 > In article <XuWdnWczeJbnJZjd4p2dnA.TakeThisOut@wideopenwest.com>, stftk14
 > @wideopenwest.com says...
  > > Hello,
  > >
  > > We have very recently launched our new site. It is located at
  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamohosting.net" target="_blank">www.dynamohosting.net</a> .
  > >
  > > I am looking for either reviews or just whether the images and format
looks
  > > ok in various browsers.
  > >
  > > Our designer, Zaireweb, worked hard over a period of about 2 weeks on
this
  > > site and we are very happy on it, and we are looking for people to
review
  > > it.
  > >
  > > I appreciate any comments and thank you for your time.
  > >
  > > Thanks,
  > > Dan
<font color=green>  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.DynamoHosting.net</font" target="_blank">www.DynamoHosting.net</font</a>>
  > >
  > >
  > >
 > Nice site, but the menu doesn't always display properly, it keeps
 > getting "stuck". I'm running IE6 and Mozilla 1.5, Win XP, 2800 Athlon,
 > 512 ram - so it isn't on my end.
 >
 > I went to your designer's site to check out his work. Interesting. You
 > may want to mention to him that his site needs a little more content if
 > he expects to pick up any more business.

Hello,

OK Thanks for all your reviews. He is working on the W3C validation now to
fix any problems.

We are both looking through the menu code to find any possible bugs and will
be working to solve that problem as you noted.

Regarding his site, as I have spoken to him, he plans on releasing the site
within a week or so.

Thanks,
Dan
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:13 pm
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"Dan DeVincent" <stftk14 RemoveThis @wideopenwest.com> wrote in message
news:XuWdnWczeJbnJZjd4p2dnA@wideopenwest.com...
 > Hello,
 >
 > We have very recently launched our new site. It is located at
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.dynamohosting.net" target="_blank">www.dynamohosting.net</a> .
 >
 > I am looking for either reviews or just whether the images and format
looks
 > ok in various browsers.
 >
 > Our designer, Zaireweb, worked hard over a period of about 2 weeks on this
 > site and we are very happy on it, and we are looking for people to review
 > it.
 >
 > I appreciate any comments and thank you for your time.

The two images don't seem to mesh. What does one have to do with the other?
They don't provide any cohesion (how's that for corp speak?).

I don't like the color switching. Text should be flow in the same way. If
you want black background for logos, great, but don't use it for user-input
unless it's clearly delineated (in this case, being at the top makes it look
like part of the graphic, not an actual user-input box).

Text is kind of small. (1024 in IE)

Your logo - what is it? I thought maybe a D or an H, but it doesn't look
either. More like random pixelizations.

The Red Hat graphics don't flow with the rest of the page.

I like the right image for color. I like the left image for visuals. I don't
like both on the same page.

I don't know that "news" is the best thing to have on your front page. You
need to convince your viewer of why they should switch to you, THEN the
announcements, news, promos, etc. You don't have enough "why" in the top
section.

The menus worked fine for me but they do seem a little off... maybe because
they're on the right side?

Good overall design, just needs better flow.
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