Re-design of our main site, opinions please

[h0ster]

Hello everyone. We've been working hard to rectify some of the small problems that people have kindly pointed out to us. Most of all the person who, very correctly, pointed out, its hard to find the forum and some packages should be on the front page.

All constructive critisim is more than welcome,

Thanks for your time,

Marc

http://valve-hosting.com

[antispyware]

now the site improved a alot.
it looks better than when i saw it before.
still font size of text is small
there is a lot of empty space at the bottom
but i dont find any textual content on the site that can be indexed by search engines.

[Eclouds]

I like it better now

[stuffradio]

pretty good man :)

[Wojtek]

looks great, just remove the music/sounds

[Decker]

get rid of the sounds and the flash anim, that eye is very off putting

[h0ster]

get rid of the sounds and the flash anim, that eye is very off putting

Ha, the eye eh? Yeah, it's a bit strange I suppose. There's no textual content, there is some invisible content though ;) We're looking to change the music for something with a bit less impact, more ambient. Thanks everyone for your constructive comments. I quite like the space. We're going to add a 'zoom' button so the .swf fills whatever screen size its viewed in. We're on a faster server too now so it should be loading real quick.

[Yellowmc]

We're on a faster server too now so it should be loading real quick.

You could be using the fastest connection in the world but users viewing your site using dial-up will never know that. You have to cater for the largest audience possible and your site, by using flash is already cutting off alot of potential clients.

[Kwek]

Looks like a great layout, I would rate it 7.5/10.

I think its pretty nice.

[Darko]

i love the eye, can you give me a link to it's images, i also like the design pretty good
Rating: 8/10

[ephekt]

You could be using the fastest connection in the world but users viewing your site using dial-up will never know that. You have to cater for the largest audience possible and your site, by using flash is already cutting off a lot of potential clients.

Hrmm, is 56k still the most widely used internet connection? I don't personally know. v0dkas site does not utilize any real intense flash action scripts or even any real heavy loading features. His website, after doing a little looking into, was a template. I do not know if he or she bought it, but the site it came from is http://dreamlinestudio.com/.

I am not a big fan of this template, simply because it does not look like it is hosting related at all. But it does look cool in other aspects.

My overall opinion is 6.5/10. 2 points for investing the money and 3 points for the chosen template. 1 point for attempting to put your content (textually ) into the site even though it does not match. It almost looks imaged in. Half a point for not saying you made it. :) I've seen a few hosts claim new re-designs when they just simply bought a template.

[GeorgeB]

umm not sure why, but all I get, is a white page. No content but a big box, with a red on it.

[h0ster]

umm not sure why, but all I get, is a white page. No content but a big box, with a red on it.

A red what?:P You probably don't have flash installed.