Real Easy Hosting

**wvmlt** · 03-26-2004, 12:17 AM

Comments, ideas and suggestions appreciated. http://realeasyhosting.com/

**jammin411** · 03-26-2004, 12:33 AM

The first thing to change is under the "Keeping Things Simple" header you need to make the text more readable. With the allcaps it is a little hard to read.

One other thing I would change is keep all of your links opening in the same window. There is no reason to open a new window for all your buttons. Quite frankly, it becomes quite annoying to have that many windows open.

Last thing I would change is your header button text is inconsistent. Meaning, some are centered, others are right aligned, while another is left aligned. Make it all consistent.

I do like your top 5 downloads section though, I had to download the Pocket Tanks

I do think you have a good looking site here.

8 out of 10

**MrTom-UK** · 03-26-2004, 08:19 AM

It's a nice looking site with colour graphics, very good first impression.
Roll over buttons at top are cool.

the text in the middle section is butted up against the left too much - move in about 4 px to improve appearance

It is a hugely competitive market - perhaps make more of your prices (if they are any good!)

**wvmlt** · 03-26-2004, 08:47 AM

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try to implement them today. I did try to center the text in the top buttons before and ended up with text for one link being spread out over two buttons. Maybe I can play around with it and get them centered.

**xtraterrestrial** · 03-26-2004, 12:04 PM

Very Impressive, the site looks proffessional and is easy to navigate

I don't like the way every page loads up in a new window though

Its a great design, i particularly like the constantly moving graphics at the top

**wicko3** · 03-26-2004, 12:33 PM

You need to increase the cell padding for the section that begins

Quote:

We want to make website hosting both easy and affordable. The way we see it, you shouldn't have to pay for add on services that you don't need or will never use......

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The allcaps is a little hard to read, but its important for sites to have their own little quirks like this.

The top screen-worth of the site is visually stunning, but the rest of the page falls short of that very high standard. Your 'mission' is just a block of text that looks so daunting that no-one will want to read it. Split it up, or make it more appealing.

You have two large segments of unnecessary clutter on your front page. If you remove the 'Web News' and the 'Top Downloads' from the front page, and put them somewhere else, then the page would be much tidier, and fit the description of your company more. Your layout at the moment is certainly not 'real easy' because of the very large amount of textual content that doesn't really need to be there IMO.

It is questionable as to whether the 'Leave a Message...Search sight' logos should be centred. It looks slightly amateurish.

On my resolution (800*600) at least, the copyright statement overlaps onto two lines, and looks bad. The copyright statement and the site map should be left aligned and right aligned respectively, in a table. This should avoid the problem.

Very nice colour scheme - its friendly but professional.

Hope this helps,

**Skip Wiley** · 03-27-2004, 09:45 AM

I like the site... I would increase the cell padding to move the text away from the edges.......
My 2 Cents
Skip

**Kyrnt** · 03-27-2004, 11:22 AM

Nice site and I highly rate the flash banner. Is that circle-within-a-circle your logo? If so, use it a little more -- put a small image of it at the bottom of your pages with your copyright. Spread your brand around a little more.

The "Real Easy Hosting's mission is simple" title should have the words "Mission" and "Simple" capitalized to give it a true title look. Also, you definitely need to add some padding to that block.

I agree with the other posters that the all-caps in the "Keeping Things Simple" does not work. I also think that making the text bold the way you have and the exact same color as the banner makes it bland. You also need to add some padding-bottom to that block to seperate the text from the top of the "Web News" section.

The FAQs page needs some formatting. Adopt the format of your other pages into that page.

On your terms page, you need padding to get the text off the margin.

You have a great site but just need a few changes to take it to the next level. I do love that flash banner.

**totalservers** · 03-28-2004, 05:36 PM

The template looks good - the first impressions are good - but you need to sort out the cell padding so that the text is easier to read.

On the FAQs page there doesnt seem to be a template around the page - and no links back to your homepage - this is a bad sign and will detract people from signing up with you.

The copyright notice at the bottom of the page wraps over to the next line which looks bad. Format it so that everything is on the same line.

As many have said before it is not a good thing to use all caps - using a mixture of upper and lowercase letters softens the look and makes it easier on the eye.

Sort out your meta data in the source - a title is not enough - you will need keywords, a descriptions, etc...

hope this helps! If you are serious about making this work you need to create a presence that makes people want to look twice - show ppl that you are someone that they can trust...you definately need to add more than an email address - ppl will not just hand their money over to you.

also - correct me if i am wrong - but the template looks like a premade one and thus others will also be using it - consider making it unique to your own site.

you may need to spend a bit to make some substantial income!

**bbott** · 03-29-2004, 06:34 PM

Very nice site. As stated before, the copyright statement at the bottom wraps into a second line. Also, the top image/link is not active where you have the $3.00/month hosting graphic.

Only other recomendation i have is about the text in the "Real Easy Hosting's mission is simple:
We want to make website hosting both easy " text box. The text runs right up against the table border. Set the cellpadding and cellspacing so they're not touching.