Website Review and Suggestions

**fava** · 01-13-2009, 12:12 PM

My site is www.hostingscorecard.com and was launched Jan 2/09.

Please keep in mind that I am NOT a web designer. (I am actually a mechanical designer

).

I am trying to keep the design fairly clean and uncomplicated and I would appreciated it if I could receive comments on usability and clarity rather than just the design aspects.

fava

**AD7863** · 01-13-2009, 12:30 PM

It is a nice , simple and easy to use website. I'd say about 8/10.

**chnceg** · 03:38 PM

At first glance, I was reminded of pages like this: simplivity.com
To say the least, that could lead to people leaving without even knowing what your website's about.

4/10

The header could just be a color instead of that, and you could place your websites name within the header. The border below is a nice little addition. The navigation is very simple and precise; good job. Your content shouldn't have such a big font-size though! 10px would do it. No one uses tables anymore! Divs are the way to go. Here are a few links to coding with DIVs and CSS:

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Web-S...yout-with-CSS/

http://www.designplace.org/tutorials.php?page=1&c_id=24

http://www.softutorials.com/t2770/HTML/Coding_Divs

And of course, W3 schools, haha: http://www.w3schools.com/

**Mark Henderson** · 01-13-2009, 03:54 PM

Looks great, not too much and not too little. As said before though, you really need to scrap the tables!

**kayleigh** · 01-13-2009, 05:18 PM

nice and clean website.

**fava** · 01-14-2009, 02:21 AM

When starting coding for the site I was fully intending on using CSS and not tables. I had so many problems that I gave up and spent 10 min creating the table version. I will admit that the layout at the time was more complex than it is now so I will be trying again.

Regarding the font size. I have it set to 100%, I am assuming that means it will use the browser default. Am I correct or is it defined some other way?

fava

**kikz** · 01-14-2009, 04:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fava

When starting coding for the site I was fully intending on using CSS and not tables. I had so many problems that I gave up and spent 10 min creating the table version. I will admit that the layout at the time was more complex than it is now so I will be trying again.

Regarding the font size. I have it set to 100%, I am assuming that means it will use the browser default. Am I correct or is it defined some other way?

fava

Looks fine, try to change your font size and style, i think you need to enhance it to look more attractive.

**journey08** · 01-14-2009, 07:15 AM

The site looks good except for the design of the graph...Some data can't be read clearly...

**ms2134** · 01-14-2009, 08:54 AM

Your site is simple. Which is good.

I think that you could benifit from a new top banner for the site to make it look a little more professional.

Better placements of your advertising would benifit you. (IMO) Image ads are much better and can more attention than text ads.

I think that a little more color would help your site and also cutting up some text.

Other than the above, i believe that you have a good website and that it is a job well done.

~ Mike