icontact said:
The website is still under development and i can see why people dont like seeing ads on the website so that is still currently being reviewed.
I don't find the use of ads objectionable - especially when you maintain a high content-to-advertising ratio, however Google is advertising competing hosts there - taking from your income rather than adding to it.
Anyhow, with the design on the main page I've noticed a couple of small things you could improve:
1. The height of the "plans" and "information" tables is not the same, it's only slightly different in IE - but quite noticeably different in Mozilla. I suggest modifying your CSS so it displays the same in both browsers, and to have them at the same height.
2. I'm also usually not too fond of designs that don't fit the whole width of the browser - however your design is quite acceptable at that width.
3. There is a line break in the "free 1 month trial" in Mozilla.
4. The WC3 CSS + XHTML validators appear side-by-side in Mozilla, and one under the other in IE. I also suggest moving them to where the "Live Support" pic is and moving the Live Support to where they currently are.
5. When Scripting is disabled the Google ads disappear, however the "ads bar" remains. A professional design would have the entire bar not display when scripting is disabled.
6. I don't know why, but sometimes your links along the top have a purple background before the light grey one... actually I might know why is it an image? Let's see... bingo! Must be, because without images the background is purple. Well that's easily fixed with CSS.
7. A couple of other things don't look quite right in Mozilla: top links, placement of "01" and "02", cellspacing and border colour in the "information" table.
My original design for plamdi.com (before upload) looked pretty much exactly like it does now - except that in Mozillia it looked horribly different. And I thought "well every website I've ever written to date was basically for IE, so I may as well go about making a generic one for a change". The changes to the HTML and CSS weren't all that complicated either, and now I have a site that displays 95% identical in both browsers - I could have it 99%, but I figure some subtle difference never hurt.
Yours is more like 76% identical. It's an excellent design, and the photos you've chosen are stunning, so it would do justice to the site for it to display more like it does in IE in Mozilla too.
icontact said:
btw: youre being hosted by - icontact-hosting.com not iconnect-hosting.com
Ty.