Megan — Sat, 14 Oct 2000 01:45:20 +0000

It's not always that superficial either (well, not for me anyway). A nice looking website shows that you've taken that extra bit of effort that, in the hosting business anyway, isn't specifically necessary. It's like dressing up for a job interview. You're still the same person with the same skills no matter what you wear but you'll look a lot better to the company if you're dressed well.

If a hosting company makes that extra effort to put up a nice website, that tells me that they'll be willing to make an extra effort in other areas too. There's a lot of competition out there. You have to do everything you can to make yourself stand out from the crowd.

One more thing

Curtis Stevens — Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:07:43 +0000

I tried to edit my post, but it wont allow me to login, stupid scripting error, JP???

I suggest you hire yourself a designer and get him to build you a site like mine. I was the same way you were, I just tried to build a better one and thought it was good. Then I would go look at webhosting.com and just get down. Then I just told myself it isn't that big of a deal. But it is when there are customers that will buy from a particular host JUST becase they liked the web site. I don't have any real life expereince proof yet, but I will soon. People have told me that they sometimes do what I just said.

I highly recommend hiring a designer. Give him or her free hosting if you can if not, just pay them.

Curtis

Megan

Curtis Stevens — Thu, 12 Oct 2000 18:02:13 +0000

I agree with you. The one thing I have leared is that. There are many people here, like JP and Chad from dids.com who have seen every design I have made, which I can't keep count any more. Every single one was what I built. The current is my best design. The one thing I lacked was that corporate feeling, interacting the company logo into the layout and some pictures, which gives it a more real feeling.

For example, go to webhosting.com or burlee.com When you first go to those sites, you just think wow, they must be a good service, it gives the cutomers a good feeling and believes that you are big and will be there for them.

I don't know what this new design is going to do, the one Megan is referring too, but I have a feeling it will help a lot. And no, I didn't build it, that is the only thing I lack, which is the hardest thing in designing web sites, is to get a layout together and create the imgaes. They both work together, but you have to be good at it, with creativity.

Curtis

Megan — Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:38:52 +0000

Curtis is exactly right. I mean, compare your website to the one he posted a few threads down. Which one would you pick? There's no doubt in my mind...

Curtis Stevens — Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:05:29 +0000

The left colum, where it stops, after all of the buttons, the black colum. The other pages are not like that. You also need some space around the text, too bunched in.

Curtis

stephend — Thu, 12 Oct 2000 03:35:30 +0000

What is messed up with my faq page?

FYI

Curtis Stevens — Thu, 12 Oct 2000 02:57:36 +0000

What I have learned is in the hosting industry, since it is so saturated, that most people will judge your company by its cover, your web site.

FYI:

This page is messed up: http://stephendunbar.com/faq.html See what I'm referring too?

Curtis Stevens
Simple Solutions
http://www.1simple.com

Thank you for your comments.

stephend — Mon, 09 Oct 2000 04:12:09 +0000

I've made various changes including a more interesting logo.

How is my site looking now?
http://www.stephendunbar.com

Thank you

Mark Hensler — Thu, 07 Sep 2000 21:24:01 +0000

well, this is a little off, but it'll give you an idea.
http://digitalart.org/
look at the results of the poll on the left.

Here is a res poll:
http://webreview.com/pub/1999/06/18/poll/results.html

800x600 for me also

Nutrocker — Thu, 07 Sep 2000 10:56:53 +0000

Not that anyone cares cause I ain't no Pro! But I agree that 800x600 should be the minimum nowadays.
Anyone running at 640x480 are either at college, at school or work! And should not be using the PC to browse the internet IMHO.
Those PC's will eventually get upgraded anyway and the percentage of 640x480 users will decrease.

Anyone browsing the net seriously, uses 800x600 minimum I bet.

Think of all that extra space to work with luverly.

Me? 1024x768 at work and home.