Vilitas.com site review: Round 4

[DizixCom]

It's been almost a year (short of a few months) since my last review request. Since then this particular web site has evolved a bit and is now actually closing in on another release.

If you could spare a few moments to critique http://staging.vilitas.com I would be very grateful. The last review helped significantly in polishing things up.

A few notes...

1 - The home page is the only really finished work, but the others are close so please feel free to comment on anything you see.

2 - The announcements/notices pages are actually reading from an NNTP server. If you see any slow down or glitches please let me know. That code is still very new.

3 - The icons are taken from HSPComplete, with permissions of course. If you know of any good Icon artists that can do similar quality please let me know, I would love to have unique icons.

And once again, thank you for your time!

[nickjc]

Loads nice and fast on my modem. Looks good and all the rollovers work fine in IE6. I like the colourful icons. Dosn't look quite the same in Mozilla though - probably just needs a bit of tweaking. Good luck with it.

Nick

[Robert]

ohhhhh i like.. i like!

[Chicken]

Has that 'just out of the wash' look and feel. Crisp and clean, easy to use, bright. Nice logo ( I need that).

[DizixCom]

Wow, I think this is the first time I've ever had so few criticisms. Did I finally do it right!? Eureka!

So I'll focus on browser compatibility and go from there.

Thank you for letting me borrow your eyeballs, I'm usually a poor judge of these things.

[Chicken]

OK, I took a second look and remembered one thing that bugged me. You're thinking.. "I spoke too soon.. uh-oh!" Not really...

This has to do with navigation and links. On this page (http://staging.vilitas.com/hosting/shared) there is a left menu (Compare Plans, Quickstart, Personal, Business) where there is a small grey area and then the link is the entire blue area next to it.

That is not the case with the similar looking 'Compare Plans' to the right of that navigation box. If you mouseover the words 'Quickstart' or 'Order Now!' those are links but they aren't obvious and when you mouseover them, they underline.

Also on this page (http://staging.vilitas.com/company/) there is a link that is the typical blue underline type. You also have path navigation (Home > Company Info > About Us), and a mouseover on those turns the links red.

I guess I mean that you sometimes repeat some elements of the design, but aren't entirely consistent with how those elements function, and have a variety of linking methods, some of which are obvious, some are not.

[DizixCom]

Oh sure, make me feel the pain now!

I think some of the design is still carried over from when things were mostly red and yellow. There are a lot of holes in there that I should pay more attention to, but sadly when I go over things I rarely look at content and spend more time looking at the wrapper. As a matter of fact, re-reading some of the text kind of makes me sad. It isn't very well written.

I think I need a copy expert. Oh boy.

I can't believe some people think this stuff is easy. :D

Thanks for the details, I'll get to work in resolving some of those issues.