Back Home

Open Designs

Community. Driven.

Self Promotion: Feedback on both design and idea

Bottom of Page

1 to 9 of 9

  1.  
    •  
      CommentAuthorColin
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2007 edited by Colin on the 19th February 2007 at 00:06:58 EST
     
    JeremyD and I are once again collaborating on Shizilla, and we'd appreciate your input.

    We're partnering with (mt) Media Temple to deliver professional design services along with dedicated servers, packaged at competitive prices.

    We've finished a preliminary design, and would love your feedback. It's valid XHTML 1.0 Strict (I hope) and works in all major browsers (something I was very surprised at). http://shizilla.com/site

    So, do you think there's a niche market for this, and does the site complement the topic?

    Thanks in advance! smile
    •  
      CommentAuthorsnop
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2007
     
    I like the design, but you're using a lot of images for text where you could just use straight text. Would help with the search indexing and people who want to boost up the font size.

    An active or here style on the main menu would also help draw attention to it - it's such a light blue that I didn't see it right away.

    Otherwise nice job - good layout and you draw attention to the important bits well.
    • CommentAuthorSaad
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2007
     
    love the design and name, however, im not sure about the prices,

    who is your market exactly? i mean you have alot of great services, but $200 a month would mean very high end clients, (unless ive got the wrong idea). i would add some smaller packages
    •  
      CommentAuthorColin
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2007
     
    @Snop - Hehe I knew I'd get that one updown... I'll make some changes, you're more than right. And I have an active class on home, just forgot to style it! *smacks head*

    @Saad - I can see what you're getting at. We will be marketing it at a higher clientele, and to make any serious money off of it we had to price it that high. We're going to be leasing servers at retail from (mt), so at this point both Jeremy and I will be making $75 per month per client. We're obviously going to work our butts off on each site, and will be giving little gifts to clients as time goes on.

    Thanks guys!
    • CommentAuthorSaad
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2007
     
    Alright, that makes sense. Good luck.

    If you need reliable freelance work, hit me, i would love to use up some of my free time.
    •  
      CommentAuthorbradm81
    • CommentTimeFeb 19th 2007
     
    I like the site, very clean, very attractive.

    SInce you're charging a flat monthly rate, I assume you're going to be maintaining the site for the clients as well. If so, I would advertise that more prominently. If not, it seems strange to collapse the design fee into the monthly rate if the site is either going to be static or updated by the client.

    I think you'll need some sort of portfolio as well, since design is included in the price.

    Nice work!
    •  
      CommentAuthorpiXelatedEmpire
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2007 edited by piXelatedEmpire on the 20th February 2007 at 19:09:25 EST
     
    I know this is still a test site, but theres some serious issues with IE6 (I use it at work):

    http://img167.imageshack.us/img167/1601/untitledot7.gif

    Nice idea bakie
    •  
      CommentAuthorkirby145
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2007
     
    That's strange just the other day I saw a site that said hosted by (mt). What a coincidence
    •  
      CommentAuthorColin
    • CommentTimeFeb 20th 2007
     
    Sorry everyone, I'm working live on the server right now, so it's gonna be buggy. Really buggy. Thanks to all! bigsmile

1 to 9 of 9

  1.