SITE REVIEW: Eason Hosting Solutions

I'm starting my own web hosting business and I need some input on the layout I have setup for this. The only thing I think needs improving is the header (I suck at them). The client login doesn't work right now, as I'm getting a domain for the company and then my host gives me billing/support software, so in a few days I'll have that all integrated into the site. Well, looking forward to the layout reviews.

http://www.eternalfatum.net

I'm sorry if this isn't allowed, but I really need some comments on what I could improve on. If I'm not allowed to bump a topic, I'm sorry.

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/6995/errorwq2.jpg that is the first thing that bothers me ... I'm at work so I only have IE6 and this is what I see ... And then when I roll over the "home" link the whole bar moves up, so basically the "out Us" dissappears, but for all the other links it stays the same ...

The W3C Validator found 7 errors in you coding, you can click here to see them ...

You could also disable the link of the page that a user is on, for example, if a user is on the "home" page, you could disable the "home" link and make it another colour (or rollover) state ... that way, users will know which page they are on, and they won't redirect to the page that they are already on ...


I think you should put something in there and not just that, even if you have to make up the first one or something ...


There's nothing there ... I don't see it ... ?

On the "contact" form ... for everything there is an error message with a 'return' link, except for when you get the security question wrong ... then there is no 'return' link ...

The design page is empty aswell ...

Please click on the "forums" link and tell me what you see ... I can promise you that that is not a forum ... that is your website-directory ... or some website directory ...

Okay that's a start ...

I could of sworn it was valid. For the contact page, it's suppose to list what you entered in and if you don't fill anything out, then it'll say not all fields are filled out. The domain checker is in the billing software that my web host has for it's clients, so that'll be in tomorrow most likely. The forums I deleted, I'm installing vBullentin for those. As for the navbar messing up, I tested it out in IE6 and 7 and nothing like you're describing is happening for me. I'll have some other people test that out to see if they get it.

**EDIT**

I have it valid now. I looked at the contact page and it's doing exactly what it's suppose to do. It tells the user what they inputted and it sends to whichever department they selected. I'm ordering my domain for it tomorrow, so once that's ordered I can get the client/billing system installed and have the domain checker/login integrated into the site. I'm installing a forum (vBulletin) for client support as well. I still don't know what you're talking about with the navbar. I have had 3 people check it in their IE6 browsers and they said it looked fine to them, nothing moved up, etc.

The banner could use a little work, maybe a little clearer?

Overall I thought it was good

Look at the nav bar image I posted ... it has a "out Us" below the other text ... 6.0.2900.2180 is my work's IE version number ...

righteous_trespasser is right of course - the nav bar is behaving weirdly, i.e. when I roll over the buttons only 'home' behaves as it should - all others extend the whole nav bar for another line because of a stray bit of text that wondered in.... (says "out Us", so I suppose something in the "About Us" button is misbehaving...) I don't know what it is because I cannot see it in the code... but hey I'm a beginner so that maybe doesn't mean much....what have you got in your "nav" class css?

The banner background looks a little foreboding to me, more like the background for a Quake V ad than a hosting provider. I'll try to make an alternative version for you if work obligations allow.... just as an idea of course

See where you have that .nav a:hover ... I think inside there you should take out the margin-top:2px; and replace it with padding-top:8px; and also add a width:100px; max-width:100px; to it to make sure the width doesn't increase ... I think that should work ... I can't test it now unfortunately ...

no it still doesn't work.... presuming I've done correctly what you suggested.... I've changed the css to :


I don't know if I was supposed to write both width and max-width, but I tried with both or just with max- and it still behaves same as before, as far as I can see.

now back to legitimate work before I get fired........

(ps sorry to be jumping in like this I was just curious to see if it would work)

Like this ... all I did was replace the margin-top:2px; with padding-top:8px;, and I forgot to mention that the height should be the same as the .nav a ...


Now they both have to be the same size imo

no it still doesn't work. maybe I'm doing something wrong though.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I've got it! it's not the css - the css is fine. it's the breaks in the html, for some weird reason. When I made the whole "nav" div tag one long unbroken line, suddenly it all worked fine. don't ask why

Thanks for the notice on the bar. I'll look at my HTML/CSS file and see what's going on. I posted my site at another business forum and they act like the layout needs to be redone. So, I'm going to do a new layout with more hosting features to it. Thanks for the help.

A pleasure

I'm pretty sure it's the HTML breaks - I tried out all the CSS variants righteous_trespasser recommended, but the problem persisted until I took all the breaks out of the HTML that regulates the nav bar - then it worked like a charm.

I really like that nav bar.

I tried the CSS to, but I can't test on IE6 (dont have it). Curse you microsoft for not allowing me to install it even if I have ie7 . See if it works in IE6 now.

This is why EVERYONE should switch to FireFox. They actually follow the web standards unlike Microsux.