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Old May 19th, 2005, 08:38 AM
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http://www.opticmedia.com.au

haha, why not ey? Have a little look see, i'm always open to destructive criticism.

The power of the site isnt its design, its the CMS i built ground up and the completely database driven content, including the menu's, pages & external links.

The CMS also uses a clever rewrite to prevent, index.php?query=variable&query=variable, into a neater index/query/variable/query/variable

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Old May 19th, 2005, 09:14 AM
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The nav links at the top would be nice with a rollover effect.

Those links down the side: they highlight when you move over the box, but on the text is a link. This can be confusing. I can see non-savvy people clicking in the box but not on the text and sit there waiting for something to happen. You could make the link take up the entire cell. Applying "display:block;" to the link, and a little tweaking should do.

You should maybe advertise some of the hosting plans right on the main page. People have come for hosting, give them hosting right away. People don't like to hunt. Hunting is so old fashioned.

I like the design though. Very professional.
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Old May 19th, 2005, 10:08 AM
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great site!!

i think the picture on the main oage is cool but would remove it so the content is heigher up on the other pages such as...'about the company' and 'contact info'

otherthan that, Its cool

except the guy looks like hes taking a pee!!!...
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The nav links at the top would be nice with a rollover effect.

Those links down the side: they highlight when you move over the box, but on the text is a link. This can be confusing. I can see non-savvy people clicking in the box but not on the text and sit there waiting for something to happen. You could make the link take up the entire cell. Applying "display:block;" to the link, and a little tweaking should do.

You should maybe advertise some of the hosting plans right on the main page. People have come for hosting, give them hosting right away. People don't like to hunt. Hunting is so old fashioned.

I like the design though. Very professional.

Looking at the javascript in place I'd say its meant to have that, but it looks like the linked-to pictures are the same as the originals. It also looks exorbitantly large when a 1px wide image would suffice using a single line of CSS : background : url('pic.jpg') repeat-x;

Anyone who looks at your site and knows what theyre doing will spot this... It's much easier, makes the page load faster and considerate of dialup customers.

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Looking at the javascript in place I'd say its meant to have that

Oh I know it's meant to work like that. I was just suggesting a change.

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about the company>2nd paragraph. you want subsequently, not sequencially.

Looks good over all, eye pleasing. Agree with cybersaga on the left nav links.

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I like the clean look of the site. Although I am not sure why it is so long? There is also nothing that leads me as to what to do next. What I mean by this is my eye goes to the picture. I read that you do hosting and then what? I suggest maybe a view a comparision of our plans or something that leads the user to where you want them to go. I would also use a different picture on the various pages.
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