Review: www.hostingtalk.info

[micksss]

The site is powered by pligg and I have done some customizing to it but I'm looking for any suggestions/feedback: colors, layout, voting process, submission process, etc... I'm thinking of eventually added a forum to it as well. Thank you for your time.

Hosting Talk

[quartzy]

Your site looks a bit plain I thought maybe a background would liven it up. Other than that your site loads well and the colors you have used are good. The form works and the layout works. Bit annoying scrolling own the page, maybe you could have links to the hosts, just a thought.

[micksss]

Thank you for your suggestions quartzy. I will play around with a background and maybe only list 5 instead of 10 on the main page to reduce scrolling.

maybe you could have links to the hosts, just a thought.

If you click on the titles of the hosts it links the host's website.

Thanks again for your suggestions.

[tophost]

I actually like that the site is "plain." It helps me focus on the content.
What I would suggest is:

- get a professional Web 2.0 logo done and have it smaller, to make the header smaller as well and get as much info above the fold as possible;
- make a profile page for each web hosting company you list on your site and contact the webmasters to encourage them to add content on those pages. You could even charge them a small fee -like -20-50 USD or more. But when you are done, this will be better than a directory.

[micksss]

I changed the logo. Let me know what you think. http://www.hostingtalk.info

I've attached the original one here to compare. Thanks for your help.

[tophost]

I think it looks much better now. It is really straightforward.

[micksss]

Thanks for your help buddy

[TheFriend]

Your site looks good: It has a great design and i like it.
But i would fix some html errors....
This link says everything you need to know:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...Inline&group=0
Anaway, well done!

[businessservicesuk]

First impressions: Not bad, the plain image give a corporate feel to the site.

Content: You have 1 sentence on the sites aim, this seems a little thin. Also have you considered duplicate content issues as hosts will extract their services from their own site.

Tags: poor, no optimisation at all

Summary: I don't really get the site, having a social network on hosts seems very odd, as in what comments can people leave. 'This host is good', 'This host is poor'. This will hold the site back. Listing hosts and adding your own personal review would be beneficial to visitors but I struggle to see where this will go.

A definite thumbs down sorry.

[Hafsoh]

Better change! easy to navigate

[ryukenden]

Hosting forums will be good to be added there.

[bbrock32]

I like the site design.It looks very professional.Maybe some bigger navigation menus would make it easier.Good work!

[micksss]

I agree that a forum would be a great addition at some point and the navigation does need some work. Thanks for you critique.

[mohan_85in]

Hi

Your website looks nice and good graphics... but less matter i think..

Try to keep some freely available hosting websites also..

for improving your page rank .. there should be somecontent for free and google should find it...

by that your pagerank can be increased..

regards
mohan

[jijo]

Good things:

I liked the design. Clean with lots of white space, clearly giving information about host votes and limted advertising wit decent placement.

Things I think could be improved:
As some one pointed about, more information about the site and its goal would be useful. After landing on home I do not get a clear idea on whats site is all about.

Few more things:
Your domain is ".info" so I would suggest adding it in your header/logo so people remember it if they wish to return to your site.

You can provide more information on how to submit a host and what happens "after" I submit a host. Currently I get no idea on why I should register and what I can do after registering

Hope this is useful to you

[ara]

it look like something is missing, maybe change background?