Critique of site

I have redesigned the webpages for this site:
http://www.dotnet-hosting.com. I would like to receive some feedback on the
general look and user experience. If you're a prospective customer, what
aspects of the site you didn't like and what features you didn't find as a
customer for web hosting.

I am *not* looking for list of errors from html or css validators.


This is the old page:
http://www.dotnet-hosting.com/oldpage.gif


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Karim wrote:

I have redesigned the webpages for this site:
http://www.dotnet-hosting.com. I would like to receive some feedback on
the general look and user experience.

Fixed width, copes badly with increased font size, abuses tables for layout,
uses XHTML style self-closing tags in HTML, too many colours, feels off
centre (aside from being left aligned in my browser window), poor spelling
and grammar, has a bunch of technologies listed but they aren't linked so
there's no way to find out more, nav bar wobbles on mouseover, craps out in
lynx.

It sucks...

I am *not* looking for list of errors from html or css validators.

.... and you know it sucks or you would fix those errors instead of asking
people to ignore them.

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David Dorward wrote:

Karim wrote:


I have redesigned the webpages for this site:
http://www.dotnet-hosting.com. I would like to receive some feedback on
the general look and user experience.


Fixed width, copes badly with increased font size, abuses tables for layout,
uses XHTML style self-closing tags in HTML, too many colours, feels off
centre (aside from being left aligned in my browser window), poor spelling
and grammar, has a bunch of technologies listed but they aren't linked so
there's no way to find out more, nav bar wobbles on mouseover, craps out in
lynx.

It sucks...


I am *not* looking for list of errors from html or css validators.


... and you know it sucks or you would fix those errors instead of asking
people to ignore them.

grin>I think you were *much* too generous</grin> it is worse than that.

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Karim wrote:

I am *not* looking for list of errors from html or css validators.

This is not the place for you, then. It is *html* critique, not design

or layout critique.
And speaking of which, your HTML is atrocious. You *really* should care
about what those validator thingies have to say. Even your DOCTYPE is wrong!

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Jim Moe wrote:

Even your DOCTYPE is wrong!

What's "wrong" with the doctype ? It might be obsolete, but it's not
(AFAICS) "wrong".

dingbat (AT) codesmiths (DOT) com wrote
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Jim Moe wrote:

Even your DOCTYPE is wrong!

What's "wrong" with the doctype ? It might be obsolete, but it's not
(AFAICS) "wrong".

It's wrong in the sense that it is incomplete. Without a URL certain
browsers will be put into quirk mode.

BTW is it now mandatory that you must use your email address as a handle
when posting from the ever to be damned google groups?

Cheers
Richard.

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:55:31 +0100, David Dorward wrote:

Karim wrote:

I have redesigned the webpages for this site:
http://www.dotnet-hosting.com. I would like to receive some feedback on
the general look and user experience.

Fixed width, copes badly with increased font size, abuses tables for layout,
uses XHTML style self-closing tags in HTML, too many colours, feels off
centre (aside from being left aligned in my browser window), poor spelling
and grammar, has a bunch of technologies listed but they aren't linked so
there's no way to find out more, nav bar wobbles on mouseover, craps out in
lynx.

Thanks for the parts which are not html pursist point of view.
Poor spelling? Where? The pages have gone through a spellchecker.
The site is geared towards .NET developers. I would expect these developers
to know about the technologies they work with on daily basis.

It sucks...

I am *not* looking for list of errors from html or css validators.

... and you know it sucks or you would fix those errors instead of asking
people to ignore them.

I can fix the html issues and the site will still look exactly the same.
Again... I am interested in user experience, not hard core html stuff.

Thank you for sharing your ideas.


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On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:48:14 -0700, Jim Moe wrote:

Karim wrote:

I am *not* looking for list of errors from html or css validators.

This is not the place for you, then. It is *html* critique, not design
or layout critique.
And speaking of which, your HTML is atrocious. You *really* should care
about what those validator thingies have to say. Even your DOCTYPE is wrong!

Yes.. it seems I am in the wrong group. If your site has a single html
error, folks here will flog you. Even my request to ignore html issues
and concenrate user experience has no bearing.


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Single all inclusive features plan with MS SQL Server, MySQL 4.0 & 5.0,
ASP.NET, PHP 5.0 & webmail support.

"Karim" wrote:

Poor spelling? Where? The pages have gone through a spellchecker.

Sorry for barging in here, but are you _really_ being serious??

What does "insant" mean? What's a "moner order", or a "gaurantee"? What is
"One clicks installation of photo album" supposed to mean?

Your punctuation and capitalization also leave a lot to be desired. Together
with the rather ugly and sloppy design, your website makes you look totally
incompetent. You'll have to smarten up a lot if you want $4.75 per month out
of me.

I think you should consider getting this site designed by a professional. It
will be worth it in the long run.

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Karim wrote:

I have redesigned the webpages for this site:
http://www.dotnet-hosting.com. I would like to receive some feedback on the
general look and user experience. If you're a prospective customer, what
aspects of the site you didn't like and what features you didn't find as a
customer for web hosting.

300M Disk Space MS Access & SQL Server
5G Traffic Quota

300 metres of disk space? 5 grams of traffic quota?

(I'll ignore the fact that quota is a word generally used when talking
about capacity/space, not traffic allowance)

The abbreviation for MegaBytes is MB, not M. The abbreviation for
GigaBytes is therefore, logically, GB, not G. Accompanied with poor
spelling and grammar throughout, this website really makes you look
unprofessional.

Marc