New Layout - CC Please

[Kieran]

Hey,

Just finished designing a new hosting layout for my site. Please rate it and give it CC. Dont just say you hate it, tell me WHY you hate it.

http://www.packagehosts.com/v2/

Thanks

[LondonGoons]

Hey tenatious, you have a nice layout there, but plain but its ok, you may want to add more images and content in the content area.

ill tell you some points:

I like the banner but it gives me a 'plain' touch, i know it has got images in the banner but its not really attractive, but then again there not really going to look at the banner.

The boxes underneath the menu bar are pretty nice, your trying to have a colourfull layout with that, but the content box with the grey really makes the boxes look ugly.
You should try and change that and make it more nice to go with your boxes.

So um yeah.

[Kieran]

Im downloading Dreamweaver again now so i can actually edit it properly. Like the page background and such

[Invent]

It looks too pixely for a hosting layout for some reason ;s

[Kieran]

I intended it to be a pixel based layout. Hence the pixelated servers.

[Puma]

=o i love it xD i like the banner =) it FABB!

[Hypertext]

It's quite good..
but I advise you not to go on the small middle look.. i advise you to do a 3 column layout OR have you nav bar on the sid using a 2 column layout ;P

[Kieran]

I have now coded the layout and added content and a background so you can view it as it would really look on the main site.

[Puma]

i will pay you if u make me one =)

[Kieran]

A hosting layout or what?

[Puma]

yeh a hosting layout =) do you want me msm so we can talk..?

[Sygon..]

Well personaly i wouldnt buy from that company but hey im not a novice and i dont play habbo. you cant just single your market down to like habbo other people are out there too and also most people dont have paypal.

So if i were to judge it on a pixel based web layout heres my C & C.

I like the router thats cool but the rest of it is just, to be honest too small and its coded terribly, but i know thats not your strong point.

The colours are basic one tone and it doesnt really appeal to me as a user that much and looks quite basic and not proffesional, i think you may need to reconsider though because ive been there done that and bought the pixely layout from joe.

[Kieran]

The layout isnt just based at people who play Habbo. In fact on the contrary I dont even play habbo. It just happens to be that I like pixel based layouts. A layout doesnt have to look proffesional as long as the service is proffesional. All a layout is there for is to provide the client with information about the service.

Coding isnt my strong point as you said. As long as it loads in browsers without holes in it then its good enough for me.

If most people dont have Paypal, what else is there to accept? Paypal doesnt even need registration as long as you have a credit/debit card.

[Sygon..]

Well if you go upto someone in the street for example and he looks like a hobo and he was offering to sell you something and then a buisness man came upto you and said he would sell the same thing for a little higher than the hobo or vice versa who would you trust more - its all about the image i dont buy from noob'y hosts i dont care about the price i want the host to be a good company with a good service and a good enough attitude to care about their website. it doesnt have to be anything spectacular anything can look proffesional just i dont think pixels does the job

[Kieran]

Again, that is just an opinion of yours. I would consider the hobo, as they are in greater need. Sure, maybe the product wouldnt be as good, but its cheaper and its half going to someone who needs it. Everyone starts out somewhere. Yes, I may be a nooby host but 1&1 and the likes were nooby hosts at one point before they got clients and their names got around. Everyone has to start somewhere. Richard Branson didnt become owner of Virgin over night, he worked in a record shop when he was 18 and built his reputation and now look at him.

[Sygon..]

bah you ask for c&C so delirious

[QuickScriptz]

Nice layout! But I do have to agree with like the 2-3rd poster.. it does seem really "pixelish" for a hosting company...?

Your prices seem very reasonable though, and just so you know none of your "Support" links work.

[Kieran]

I know.. Im still making the layout. Thats why I put the contact links until I do the support system.

[Kieran]

Come on, give me more CC now ive added content

[Recursion]

Link Dead???

[Kieran]

Ye, its now just www.packagehosts.com

[Recursion]

Wow! I really love that layout!! Well done!!

[Rockstar]

Ya Its Very GROOVY

[Kieran]

Thanks guys :D