Site redesign and improvements

NetHosted Customer Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 148

Argh, template monster - awful, just awful... You've absolutely got something much better here.

Heh, my testimonial is on the front page - cool!

Thought those words sounded strangely familiar...

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Right, so we've been busy in the past few days making various fixes based on the feedback received:

The site now works perfectly in browser windows/resolutions with a width of 1024px on all browsers and platforms that we tested, without any horizontal scrollbars. This was the main criticism of the new design and is now rectified.

The other issue was the busyness/clutter of the front page. We've made some changes here also: We've cleaned up our introductory text giving it an easier to read line height and less bolded words. We've also changed it so our plan buttons don't have text on them unless you mouse over. Replacing the text of our previous design with images instead. To our eyes this makes the front page cleaner and hopefully more usable as well.

As before, feedback is appreciated. Is looking better this time? Is it more functional?

Thanks,

Andrew

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't have complained if you'd left the width as it was, but now you've sorted it for 1024 I'm more than happy

The front page is a big improvement as well.

How about making the "tonne of extra (slidey) information" on your hosting plan pages a little more discoverable? Difficult to do while keeping the design clean, but I'm not sure that everyone will realise there is more information there as it is.

Apart from that, I love it

Richard

NetHosted Staff Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 1019

Glad to hear that you like it!

I agree that the expansion on the plan pages wasn't the most obvious, we've now added some larger plus symbols so people shouldn't have a problem working this out I'd hope!

Regards,

Darryl

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:11 am Post subject:

The site looks fine on my new (thanks to my accidental damage cover

) 1080p LCD TV in 1200x1024 up to 1900x1080

NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 382

just noticed in IE6 that the Knowledgebase page doesn't line up
http://www.nethosted.co.uk/uk-web-hosting/

the text below "Welcome to our Knowledgebase! " is to the left and not within the 'box'. At a quick guess and look in Notepad I'd go that there is a <div></div> problem.

NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 382

looks okay in IE7 and for IE6, the whole section on the right is at the bottom.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Hi,

We are taking a look at the issue you describe. Darryl is normally the coding guy so he'll deal with this at some stage.

Thanks for taking a look!

Andrew

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject:

Hi Andrew,

Is it still on plan for the VPS to be up for begin of the year/January ?
As I may be interested depending on pricing and spec

I do have another question, will the VPS'es be in the UK ?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Garry,

Yes we are hopeful that these will be ready at the start of the year (late Jan, early Feb). But we can't be firmer with dates at this point in time.

Yes they will be UK based.

Thanks,

Andrew

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Any news on the VPS ?
Any specs and prices yet ?

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

NetHosted Customer Joined: 29 Jan 2005 Posts: 382

NetHosted Staff Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 1019

Hi,

We do know about this however as it does not seem to be a trivial fix and as our percentage of IE6 users is very small we are going to leave this as is. The blog site should still be usable for IE6 users and though not ideal it is working correctly in all other browser's we've tested it on.

Regards,

Darryl

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