Review: d7host.com

**John Scott** · 05-30-2007, 07:07 AM

chicgeek · 05-30-2007, 07:13 AM

Clean, yes, but...

- I hate the flash noises on startup as well as navigation. On-time animation okay.
- The logo contained within the flash header is underwhelming and needs to be styled more. Header just underwhelming overall - needs a less generic treatment.
- Seems to be some unfilled space (at least in FF) above the right column (needs the bevel) and below the left column (needs the while background extended).
- Overall I think the text needs a little more line spacing and an evening and increase of padding from the containing boxes - spread things out just a little bit to make them more professional and readable.

Oh and "Some footer text can go here... Or not..." is bad.

Maikunari · 05-30-2007, 08:04 AM

I like the overall design of this one, but I too am not a fan of those beeps. I don't like sites that do that while I'm listening to music. I dig the overall color scheme and the modern looking icons and servers as well as the continents spread out up top there. But I agree it needs a nice logo on there to tighten things up. And all that stuff Laura said about unfilled space and what not

Karen_Harwood · 05-30-2007, 08:16 AM

Nice design and layout. I would do away with the Flash and the sound. At the very least please don't make it play over again when you go to another page, it's very annoying don't you think? One more tip, enlarge the fonts so people don't have to squint (some of us are going blind!).

StrongInTheArm · 05-30-2007, 08:48 AM

I tried three times over the last 30 minutes, it won't load from my neck of the super broadband highway.

Can't review what I can't see, sorry.

I'm sure it would have been great, although the beeps would have annoyed me.

signature16 · 05-30-2007, 11:26 AM

1) I don't like the noise at all

2) It looks like a hosting template. I hate hosting companies that use the standard webhosting templates and then shell out hosting for $1/month. I personally like to see very little to no flash and a professional design.

**3ncryptabl3_lick** · 05-31-2007, 01:52 PM

I think the audio can be toned down a bit, but I'm not gona say get rid of it. I think audio done well only adds to the ambiance.

I would however suggest when your click the nav, it doesn't load a whole new page but rather loads the content sections. I don't know if you can do this in CSS, I used to do it with frames so you know what I mean. There's no reason to always reload the whole page over and over again with the same header.

The flash will have to be embeded properly so you dont get that bounding box in ie. (click to activate this active x control thing) Which makes any slick looking site look hack.

I like the colors. Very light, easy on the eyes. Somehow though I think the nav could be bumped up a little. It's almost lost but it still works as is. The text in the middle looks a little light for a white background. I think all the text has a very antialiased feel to it.

I dont know about all that stock. It's looks like corbis blew a nut on your site.

Overall, it does seem a little plain.