[thelist] Site Evaluation - Crush Kill Destroy + URL

Jorah Lavin madstone at madstone.net
Tue Jul 4 08:13:04 CDT 2000


At 02:36 AM 7/4/00, dante wrote:
><1>
>Ok.
>The 2nd beta version of my company's site is up.
>I would appreciate it if some kind souls would take a look & Rip It to
>Shreds.
>http://www.vianet.net.au/~dante

Okay, I'm seeing the broken-up alignments on the front page, too.  Then on 
Services you talk about what sort of technologies you will be using... I 
strongly suspect that your average business customer won't know CSS from JS 
from HTML, so why not ditch all that and focus on your first item... 
marketing and so forth.  Really tell them what services you offer which 
will help them in their business.  Think of it this way... when I make 
toast, I want toast.  I want it fast and I want it done right.  I don't 
really care if the toaster uses the latest in heater-element technology or not.

I noticed that as I change the size of my browser window that the nav bar 
at the top stays properly centered, but the "body" panel of the page only 
stays centered for a while and then stalls a little to the left of center 
as I make the width of the browser larger.  Ends up looking sloppy.

On the portfolio page, the thumbnails are way, way too small.  They are 
indecipherable to me.

I'd suggest ditching either "resume" or "cv" since those are terms applied 
to an individual, and the rest of the site uses third-person.

It doesn't look like the "contact" button has any rollover on the internal 
page. (nope, I take it back... it is there, just not quick)

Normally I don't like frames, but I'm thinking that that top bar could 
profitably be in a frame so I don't have to wait for the thing to 
reload.  I'm on a 56k modem with an older PC, and the site seems really slow.

I can't figure out what your links page is for.  What will it benefit your 
business visitor?

The "profiler" link seems to go to Services...

It took me a while to figure out that "Basic" refered to one of your 
package deals... why not change it to "Basic Package?"

In the basic package page you mention arranging domain registration through 
the "local isp" but they aren't local... to me, and if I'm sitting here in 
the USA with an ISP already, why would I want to sign up with your 
ISP?  Why not hook up with a web-presence provider and get away from any 
hint of location.  I work in North Carolina, my WPP is in Ohio, and my 
customers are in Hawaii, New Jersey, and all over the place... none of them 
care where the site is hosted, where I live, ...only that the durn thing 
works.  My point is... you are addressing a more-or-less global audience... 
you gotta stop thinking that people are in your area.

It also looks like Vianet offers a reseller program... sounds to me like 
you might not want to mention Vianet at all to _your_ customers, since you 
could be the "domain registrar" from your customer's point of view... don't 
send them off to see Vianet's site!

I think you have a pretty solid start, but the site needs a lot more focus.

Let us know when you get the next iteration online...

-Jorah










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