Site Review 4

[Wullie]

Hi all,

I've just had our site redesigned to make room for new services and looking for any and all feedback.

http://www.freshlookhosting.com

I'm aware of a few small things (mainly design problems during the signup process) and these are being worked on.

Thanks in advance,

Wullie

Fresh Look - Quality Coldfusion Hosting

http://www.tutorial-world.com

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[ChrisHunt]

Looks pretty slick, Wullie. Only comment I'd make from a very quick glance is that if you want that "Live chat by Boldchat" link in the title area to be read, you need to give it a different colour to the background. But then it seems rather out of place up there anyway.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[Wullie]

Hi Chris,

Thanks, but I don't follow you.

The chat image is a already a different colour than the background. Could you explain please?

Wullie

Fresh Look - Quality Coldfusion Hosting

http://www.tutorial-world.com

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[Foamcow]

Looks nice Wullie.
I liked the chat thing so much I did a test install of my own.
That's a neat feature.

I did have some comments after we spoke last night, but I have forgotten what they were now! I will take another look later.

Very, very nice job though.

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[bhuninghake]

Great job on the site. Haven't gone completely through everything yet, but what I've seen so far is clean and fresh and easy to understand.

 

[CliveC]

Nice site Wullie.

The currency conversion does not work in Firefox. I have been doing some compatibility work and have found that it is best to validate both the HTML and the CSS in the w3c validator. This seems to clear up most of the problems.

Clive

http://tubularity.com

http://PalliativeCareConsulting.org

 

[Wullie]

Thanks guys.

Clive, what problem did you have with the currency convertor? Everything is done server-side (except an image map) so the browser should not matter. This has previously been tested in Firefox and I just tested it again without any problems.

Also, the site should validate as well. There will be a page or 2 that doesn't but all of the main pages should.

Thanks again.

Wullie

Fresh Look - Quality Coldfusion/Windows Hosting

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[CliveC]

It works fine in IE. In firefox hitting one of the flags takes me to the currency conversion page and shows the appropriate conversion factor. However when I click on "return to last page you were visiting" ,the UK pound prices are still showing.



Clive

http://tubularity.com

http://PalliativeCareConsulting.org

 

[Wullie]

Thanks mate.

Do you have cookies disabled in Firefox? That's the only reason I can think of that would cause this.

Hope this helps


Wullie

Fresh Look - Quality Coldfusion/Windows Hosting

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[CliveC]

Yes, I just discovered that that was the problem, when I allow cookies it works ok.

Clive

http://tubularity.com

http://PalliativeCareConsulting.org

 

[CliveC]

Don't know whether you are interested in this but the site works well in a blackberry handheld except for the navigation array at top and bottom. The blackberry needs the links to wrap.

Clive

http://tubularity.com

http://PalliativeCareConsulting.org

 

[Wullie]

Thanks mate,

I'm going to work in a way that stops cookies being required for the currency to work, but it means reworking some of the background coding so will take time.

Thanks again everyone.

Wullie

Fresh Look - Quality Coldfusion/Windows Hosting

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[CliveC]

You might also want to consider VOIP. You could have a US number as well as a UK number. It would not cost you anything more and it would be a free call for US residents on a nationwide calling plan. I have just installed VOIP and it works great and is way cheaper than regular phone service... Distance is not an issue.

Clive

http://tubularity.com

http://PalliativeCareConsulting.org

 

[Wullie]

Clive,

If you get a spare minute, can you please try

http://test.freshlookhosting.com/

with Firefox to see if it works with your cookies disabled?

Regarding the VOIP, this is something that would be useful if we had phone support, but at present the number is simply a status line, we have other methods for customers in countries other than the UK.



Wullie

Fresh Look - Quality Coldfusion/Windows Hosting

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[CliveC]

No, still does not work.

Clive

http://tubularity.com

http://PalliativeCareConsulting.org

 

[Wullie]

Clive,

Can you check that the URL is still test. and not www. when it doesn't work. There should be no reason for this not to work, however you may be getting redirected to the live site when you click some links.

Wullie

Fresh Look - Quality Coldfusion/Windows Hosting

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[CliveC]

Not exactly sure what you mean but I tried

http://freshlookhosting.com/

and it still didn't work if cookies were denied.

Clive

http://tubularity.com

http://PalliativeCareConsulting.org

 

[Wullie]

Hi Clive,

[ignore]

http://freshlookhosting.com

[/ignore] is the live site and the coding has not been modified on that to overcome the cookie issue.

On

http://test.freshlookhosting.com,

the code has been modified so that cookies should not be required. However, some of the site may still link directly to

http://www.freshlookhosting.com,

so when you say it is not working you may have been redirected back to this site. The address bar will say either way.

Hope this clears any confusion.

Wullie

Fresh Look - Quality Coldfusion/Windows Hosting

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails. - John Maxwell

 

[ChrisHunt]

The chat image is a already a different colour than the background. Could you explain please?

At the top of the screen, above the flags of the world, there's a link saying "Chat to us live". It's dark blue (in firefox anyway) on top of an image that's also mainly dark blue.

STOP PRESS

Just taken a look in IE, and the link in question is a broken image. FF just puts normal text in, using the alt attribute, if the image is broken. you might consider adding a CSS rule of

.chat a { color: white }

to cover this behaviour.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[ChrisHunt]

Just thought, I'm surfing from behind a firewall at work, which is probably blocking the chat image because of its URL.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd