AltaHit.com — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:22:22 +0000

lol, pretty much state the obvious! You have no idea how much abuse that green bar has taken! The colour scheme, design etc was never intended to be flashy. Like I say, this was more about evaluating the idea.

The text will become much more easy to skim read obviously and the whole image of it will become much smaller.

Any feedback is appreciated.

Megan — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:08:37 +0000

Well, I think that a review of his old site will probably give him some ideas of what went wrong the first time and what he should do differently in the new one.

Here's an actual URL for those of you who are lazy like me:

http://altahit.com/

Oooh, yeah, a redesign is defintely in order. YOu need to think about things mroe before you do them as opposed to just slapping things up there. The layout organization, for example, is really bad on a lot of pages, graphics are poorly optimized in some cases, colour scheme needs work, usability problems etc etc.

Take all the "Click here" links - everyone seemed to think these were good 5 years ago, but now we know that people are more likely to skim a page than to read it, so it's better to use meaningful titles for links that people will understand even if they haven't read the full text. This skimming thing also means that text should be structured so that it's easy for people to read.

The Webmistress — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:52:20 +0000

If you are in the process of redesigning anyway then it seems a bit daft for us to comment on this design.

mairving — Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:48:15 +0000

Can't say that I liked this one that much.

The logo - reminded me too much of American Airlines. The best thing is that you really slammed it home having the redA with the blue letters throughout your site. I am not sure I liked the logo that great but you did brand your site well with it.
Overall site design - I just thought that the site was plain ugly (as opposed to butt-ugly). The green sidebar, the several shades of blue, the red and the purple where not good matches. I think the green sidebar in particular was out of place.
Home Page - I think that the home page needs more content. It has some moving stuff on it that doesn't really say much. You should have some kind of statement saying what you are about on the home page.
Text layout - on some pages it is okay but on "What is AltaHit", it is kind of odd. Very hard to follow the use of blue text and the funky layout there. The Buy Traffic page layout is better but could use a little spacing and categorizing. Affliates page has that blue text again.
Meta tags and Frames - It will be hard for any search engine to find your site since you have no meta tags, have frames and your title is "Alta-Hit.com".

Overall I think the site needs some work on the design and color schemes the most.