KAC — Sat, 19 Jul 2003 07:21:01 +0000

One of the things that I wanted to comment about is that how fast things loaded. It's sure nice to go to a site and not wait forever for the page to load.

I didn't read through all the posts, but it the photoshop image of a more white design an option? If it is, I would definately go white. It breaks the blue and adds emphasis on your products.

Weblord — Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:18:32 +0000

Hi,
Nice looking site, but the domain name don't match the services you offer! more over I notice blank space on right-hand site which is not utilize fully (you can put news or sponsor banners there)! Also advertisement banners are broken (image not found).. Color of the site are looks nice!

Megan — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 13:26:55 +0000

Here's a better idea about organizing the scripts pages. Instead of having a separate listing page once a user is logged in, why not just refer them back to the home page? No need to have two different ways of presenting the same information. Oh, and that screen you get after logging in is really unnecessary - it should really just go back to the home page.

About promoting, you might want to consider partenering with another webmastering site of some sort.

One more thing - get rid of that hosting link until you're able to offer the service. It looks really bad when everyone knows that you've had problems with it. If you've had problems with that, will there be problems with a script??? That would make me a little uneasy.

MaxW — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:57:38 +0000

My bad, the banner does say "join now for remotely hosted services", will change that, and add some more info..ie: about page, FAQ.

Also, we have only been open two days, and myself and the the other webmaster are reasonably new to this type of thing. We are raking out all the problems errors as quickly as possible.

Also, do you know where we can get more exposure? We have a small budget and alot of ad packages etc online are extremely expensive.

Busy — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:53:12 +0000

where does it say "Join now for free remotely hosted scripts" ?? I see a "Join now for free remotely hosted services!" even the title says "Quality Webmaster Services & Hosting"
maybe an about page, or info, faq, about us or something to tell a little bit more about yourselves.
You have to remember that search engines (if thats your main traffic provider) don;t always send people to the index page, so if someone was sent to, say the link to us page all they would see is buttons offering hosting services.
the most common page on my html site is the 'bad html' page.
Your offering scripts etc for novice webmasters (and pros) but you have to cater for the newbies, you know 'where's the anykey?'
I'm not bagging the site, I quite like the layout, graphics, colours but i guess make it simpler

MaxW — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:44:18 +0000

Well, on the main page there is a banner saying "Join now for free remotely hosted scripts"...what exactly do you want us to have so you can understand what you're signing up for?

Busy — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:25:53 +0000

from the index page it looks like your selling web hosting, I tried a couple of links and found some sub sections (links to other sites) but nothing about your site. from the help page, i clicked on 'directory' under scripts and got this error
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/skitchen/public_html/help/docs/hlp2/directory.hlp on line 33
the other pages mention age check and newsletter option but still have no idea what the site is about. You've mentioned there are scripts in here somewhere but have no idea where or how to get to them. signing up and trying is an option but with all the spam and affiate click thru sites people (I) are very unsure about doing so, especially when there is no info on what the site is about.
The blue in the content background gets a little hard on the eyes after a while, maybe next shade down?

MaxW — Wed, 09 Jul 2003 02:36:17 +0000

Wow, alot of feedback, this is great. Thanks alot everyone

As Steven said, we will try and incorporate as many things you said need changing/adding etc.

Could some people possibly give us some feedback on the actual scripts? Ie: using them on their site to test or something.

Thanks everyone, you've been a good help.

Megan — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 18:14:55 +0000

That looks good, ROB. Kind of ties into what I said about putting more emphasis on the header.

Quote: Originally posted by Steven
As for the Index, I wanted to just keep it simple and didn't really want text/images cluttering it up so I took away an explanation of what the site was which originally I'd put on. The same goes for the Scripts Index which is why I didn't place the 'More Info' links on there.

Keeping it simple is one thing but important information shouldn't be taken out for the sake of it. What I think should happen is when you click on a script link from the script index you should get that "more info" page plus the form to create one. That would be simpler - otherwise I have to go back to the main index and find "more info" again to find out the details. That's not exactly simple Oh, speaking of the 'main index', I don't think that's a very commonly used term for the home page at least not on the front end. Just call it "home" - people will be more likely to recognize that.

ROB — Tue, 08 Jul 2003 17:41:10 +0000

I like the design but my first impression was too much blue. the black text on the blue background doesnt seem to stand out enough either, but i'm not sure what you could do other than change the bgcolor because white text stands out even less.
maybe changing the background color of the content section white or off-white would help, and it would further separate the content area from the navigation rather than just a slightly lighter shade of blue.

Edit: I photoshopped a screenshot to make sure i knew what i was talking about, i think it looks much better http://www.script-source.net/sample/Image5.jpg