Website Review and Suggestions

**aadam** · 01-03-2011, 08:12 AM

This design is mainly a template, however I have tweaked a few bits of code to make it faster and lighter.

Could you let me know what you think of it so far?

I stuck with this design as it looks rather sleek and smooth although I am looking for any suggestions on improvements.

I have not promoted it yet so traffic is non existent.

I will add a wordpress blog for the news page soon.

http://cloudy9.com

**meo** · 01-03-2011, 09:45 AM

I would use some graphics with clouds if that was the intention of the blue color all over the website. Something professional and light.

The only thing I had to comment is the blue color you used in the right (add-ons and customer quotes) managed to hurt my eyes on a monitor set to lower brightens/contrast. You should really use a less screaming color, or keep those colors as an icon or heading instead as a background.

You could make the forms more interesting as well.

**PaulW** · 01-03-2011, 04:33 PM

Simple = good, too simple = bad -- get a designer to have a look at it.

**eyu** · 01-03-2011, 07:32 PM

Looks good. One thing that worries me: you say you have no traffic, but yet you have customer testimonials?

**PaulW** · 01-03-2011, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eyu

Looks good. One thing that worries me: you say you have no traffic, but yet you have customer testimonials?

He doesn't say they were his customers

**John 0207** · 03:50 AM

Hi!

I think the reason meo's eyes hurt when looking at your page is
too little luminance contrast. The respective cyan-blue
has a luminance value of 71%. Combined with white (100%)
this makes a luminance contrast of 29%. You need a
luminance contrast of at least 40% to prevent this
problem.

I think the design uses variations of too many color
properties. I also think the design of the levels of
the composition
(gray -> white -> dark and light blue -> white)
should follow a different logic.

**meo** · 01-04-2011, 09:30 AM

This design is not related to me in any way, but I saw it in a similar thread on another forum.

http://www.tomcash.co.uk/

Had something like that in mind when I mentioned clouds and light. Now do a corporate twist on it

**Helper_24** · 01-05-2011, 05:36 PM

If may talk about functionality instead of design I would say,
* don't put the word "unlimited" because it will drive any experienced user away from your site [ it means you don't manger your resource and therefore your service will probably be not that good ]
* You shouldn't tell the user "login to order", registering should be the last very final step not the first even then it should be called "Signup now!"
you first take
* providing live support [ if you can ] will make give you more customers, u can have a link like the one I have in my signature
* I don't like the "Free but cost 1 Pound" ... either make it totally free or 1 Pound per Month (or 10 cents per month)

**tatrasim** · 01-05-2011, 06:23 PM

Yeah, I am not a fan of this theme either... Too blue, looks more like a default wordpress site.

I also think that the logo is pretty crappy. Google "2.0 logo photoshop tutorial" or something, those are easy to make and anything by tutorial will look better than this one I think... The site is not finished yet, remove all the mini pages that barely have any text like order now, about us, news, etc until you get any more text/info to put there.
I also agree on the customer testimonials, get some real people to review, add their names + state to add credibility...

**mcorton** · 01-05-2011, 09:14 PM

I agree with many of the above comments. I would add that a name like cloudy9 may result in your site being blacklisted as it could seem "suggestive." It'd show up on filters like Web of Trust as a dangerous site. Unless of course you host adult sites.