Hey Can you review my site

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Wass up folks.

Can you review my webhosting company site.

Link: fathive.com

Thanks
#hey #review #site
  • Profile picture of the author coolice
    Certainly. First impression - the graphics are very good and attractive and could produce you the sales. You can work a bit more on the overlay and border style.
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  • Profile picture of the author aldo112
    I don't know why you put the pic of prehistoric cartoon woman in there. But, for me it's not make any sense and I don't see any relationship between the pic and the content about share hosting.

    Maybe you can add after the price in the front page start at $3.95 a year or a month or a day.
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  • Profile picture of the author pokerdawg
    Two thoughts -

    1 - it is a little cluttered. Try for more negative space.

    2 - The site was slow to load - about 6-7 seconds for a simple home page. Not a good sign for a web host. You should have your site on a different account from your clients, if necessary, to make sure it loads VERY fast.
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  • Profile picture of the author bestdeveloper
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    • Profile picture of the author Rho
      Maybe you can make some of the icons, letters and graphics smaller, this should reduce the cluttered look.
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  • Profile picture of the author ocfossils
    OK, I went to your site and saw what it was all about. The title was misleading at first, until I read up what you had at your web site. Then, it made sense to me(check), but the picture in the home page, well, it just didn't fit in. Think about maybe a more professional picture, it could help out on first impressions. My first impression was, What is this? Anyway, I will be asking others to review my web site . So, feel free to review it, when I post it.
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  • Profile picture of the author halo molim
    Not bad, clean and simple design. I would suggest little more effort with SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author mindividual
    First impression: childish

    Replace the logo with the one that gives more confidence and please forget about the picture of the prethistoric woman. Web hosting bussines is all about reliability, and your site doesn't communicate that.

    Frankly, I'd never put my site on the stone-age cartoon hosting. Sorry for being straightforward, but sincere critics are the best way to improve your work.

    [edit] Design is fine otherwise.[/edit]
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  • Profile picture of the author perfectlovehere
    I truly enjoyed looking at your site! Very fresh design! The only thing that bothered me was the somewhat scary picture of the man at the top. Depending on your market, this may not be suitable.

    -Gina E.
    {Perfect Love Here I Come}
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  • Profile picture of the author RibasIrable
    Try this.. stand up (really, stand up).. and take 3 footsteps back.. and just look at your webpage..

    Now, see on wich visual ''element'' your eyes fall on first.. and second.. and third..

    In my case, my eyes falls on the scary ugly cartoon women, and unless your married to her.. you should dump her. (or replace her).

    Figure out what you want your visitors to do first, and make that the DOMINANT visual element. And the second thing the second dominant visual element etc..

    Also.. there are a lot of things competing for my attention.. a lot of graphics.. make some of the graphics look smaller so there is a balance.. so your visitors dont have to break a sweat trying to figure out what your site is about and where to go next..

    OR, remove some graphics, go for the ''less is more'' look like Apple does, and D&G, and all other superdesign brands.

    Hope that helps dude,

    Cheers
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  • Profile picture of the author ebusinessguides
    I like the fact it has a different look from your typical hosting site. My eye was first drawn to the caveman picture so it took me a minute to figure out what your site was about. I agree with other posts here, you should rethink the main picture and perhaps add a bit more white space for readability. I love the colors.

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  • Profile picture of the author SocialBookmarkPro
    I like the overall feel of the site - it is quirky and hip. I do feel, however, that it is difficult to take in everything that is going on all at once, hence it is a bit cluttered as others have suggested. You are on to something here - keep up the great work.
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  • Profile picture of the author fathive
    Okay

    I see some repeats here

    Cave Man and clutter

    Okay i understand the cave man thing ... and i am in photoshop right now creating some thing more Modern hosting related cartoon.

    What do you guys mean with clutter ... do you guys mean there is too much text or is the stuff put in the wrong order.

    thanks
    -- sorry about the late response
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  • Profile picture of the author fathive
    Okay cave dude gone ....

    what ... or how should i improve the clutter ?

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author rickyponting6
    very nice and kool design. I like the colour combination most..
    Overall good work..

    Thanks..
    ~UK~
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  • Profile picture of the author secondeye
    Looks like a same old design, nothing new.
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    • Profile picture of the author fathive
      Originally Posted by secondeye View Post

      Looks like a same old design, nothing new.
      What do you mean by "old"

      Also anyone ... any tips on what the clutter is and or how to fix it.

      Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author GMatthers
    That's is a great Design. But you can improve. Overall its perfect! Liked the simple logo
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  • Profile picture of the author callumcoutts
    Work on your whmcs integration.
    Change the "top of the art" in the 99.99% uptime to "state of the art" (english not you're first language?).
    The design work is good quality.

    Regarding the childish design aspects.
    I targeted china with a very childish design for a free hosting site a few years ago and a sent a very badly translated (childish) welcome message to new signups.
    We bacame the fastest growing free hosting in china within a couple of days and made it onto the top of the largest free hosting forum in china within the same period of time.
    We grew so fast it actually caused us massive problems.
    I did quite well selling the traffic from that (spammers whose accounts I deleted).
    Sometimes childish can work really well.
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  • Profile picture of the author unsmashed
    Looks good - any reason why you don't have a phone number easily visible on the site? One option I've used in the past is virtualpbx.com - although Google Voice is free and does something similar.
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  • Profile picture of the author adrianclark
    Nice design, keep the good work!!!
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    • Profile picture of the author Sam Fowler
      Based on the earlier points in the thread, looks like you've improved the overall site look and feel.

      First thing I see (or don't see) is SEO related.
      What's your main keyword phrase? That should be first in your title...ie
      "Shared Web Hosting Services - FatHive"
      Rather than a "Welcome" in the H1 tag - put the main kw phrase in H1 and H2.

      Some basic on-page SEO would go a long way.

      Good luck.
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  • Profile picture of the author seo_submission
    Site is simple the color behind must be change. Well Width and Breadth must be same as its size is not placed in proper. Loading problem in your site. Images takes time to open.
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  • Profile picture of the author Frankly
    nice design, and look neat. keep up
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    • Profile picture of the author SGMao
      The first thing i noticed in your website is of course the crocodile right at the top.It made me feel that its a very refreshing look on professional webpages which might be interesting. I noticed the " Learn More " almost immediately after that. It caught my attention quite well as the colour tend to stand out. It should be able to catch attention of potential customers as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author j-spratt
    Clean, looks good very consistant
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  • Profile picture of the author chooch
    Looks great. Reminds me a little of HostGator's new look.

    Th only thing I see that I might change is the font size of "Premium Web Hosting Service". Maybe a little bit bigger. When I first looked at the site, I didn't know what the site was about.

    Still--- GREAT WORK
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