SITE REVIEW: quantumcloud.com

Alright...here it is for your kind reviews.

Quantumcloud, Web design and Software solution company

Just uploaded a new version. Potential for many errors.

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I feel the text is a little small, I'm far more comfortable reading it at 120%. It's not a big issue but it is the kind of thing that might make me look elsewhere if I have other choices.

Great, i like the choice of colors.

Only thing i felt a little drawn back was the left menu:
Web Design Forum

Web Site Reviews

Php, ASP Forum C Forum

Java Forum - VB Forum

Database Forum

Multimedia Forum

Networking Forum

General Discussion



Bangladesh Forum

Site Map


You're forcing users to scroll down to access it, and some people might miss it, you could either make it higher, or take it to the right side of the site, or maybe even add the menu on your main one?

Other than that, i love it, nice job!

Well done. I think the site looks good. A couple things however: IMO the site is too busy. YOu have your text in the middle, but so many graphics area surrounding it its distracting to the reader. Your navigation isnt very neat. YOu have some on the top, some in the box, and then some under the box. I think it should be more uniform. if you want top and sides, at least place all the sides link in the box. Or if you dont like the box, then no box at all. Overall I think its a welldesigned site. Just a couple of quirks

It looks awesome if you look in a strictly designer way, but kind of awckward when it comes to providing content and easy browsing.

Thank you all for the nice comments.

I agree with SharkShark that the page looks busy. That is why I kept those links to forums kind of in the middle of the pages so that they do not show when the pages are loaded. The forums are not meant to be a big attention grabber from the main site. Still the links are on every page for SEO purpose. To get them crawled.


But then Ifrit's comment about users forced to scroll down to see the forum links got me thinking...The forum is fairly new. It could use some members coming from the main web site. So I moved them up so that it is noticable without scrolling. I will get them down again in a few days. I hope it'll remove some of the apparent busy-ness.

theak,

Well font size looks okay to me in 1024 or 800. In 1280 it gets difficult, yes. I hate those big fonts. But since the site is not only for my viewing pleasure (lol) I will keep your comment in my mind and see if I can make a compromise.



Anybody else has any comment on the font size, please?

1) Why is your navigation in a larger font size than your body? It throws everything off.

2) In Mozilla, your nav looks awful. It's hanging over the graphic boundaries. Use imagemaps or decrease the graphics.

3) Always use correct grammar and spelling to be professional. Ask someone to proofread.

4) "Afford best design, implement best solution," is a great slogan. Bring it out. What's with the periods in between the words? This isn't some gothic teenage HTML monkey's blog.

5) Please never use the fixed bg property in CSS. It slows down scrolling dramatically and it drives me crazy. I leave almost any site I see using this.

6) Header images are much more pleasing to the eye rather than entire page images. This also prevents the unprofessional look, weird nav positioning and fixed scroll.

7) !

WHAT?

"++ 1024 by 768 ~ IE 5.5+~javascript ~billion Colors"

No! Oh my. If you are going to design for the web, you design for all browsers. Adhere to standards. It should fit almost any resolution and any browser. If it doesn't, you're not doing your job.

conorific,




Good suggestion.



Nice catch. In mozilla's default setting it looks alright. But this overflowing happens when the text size is increased twofold from view property. In IE it's okay even with larger font setting, because IE keeps the font size fixed if defined with CSS.

None of the navigation links use image. They are all done with CSS and text. That's causing the problem. I wanted a fast loading page even with a very graphical look. Most pages weigh less than 70 kb.



lol. ok. Tried to be little geeky I guess.



Did'nt know that. Thanks. Hard to notice such things when always using gig of Ram.





Thought that would be little different!




The site looks best in 1024 and IE. It works just fine in default settings of Mozilla and Opera. Does not scroll in 800. In 1280 looks great.

But probably I should take the notice off. Just as well.

Thanks for your in depth reviews.

No problem, I would expect the same from anyone else. Foegive me if I seemed a bit harsh, I don't like to sugarcoat anything.

Greetings,

Very interesting web site. The site makes me feel a little claustrophobic. You have a main menu on the left and below it, it looks like you threw a bunch of random stuff together.

Idea: Why don't you make the menu that is on the left the constant on the screen, instead of the picture on the right side of the screen. When the pages scrolls down it would be nice if the menu stayed in view instead of the picture of a pink hand.

The actual content of each page is presented very well.

Great site overall.

Um...a dynamic menu that moves when one scrolls requires JavaScript, which, as previously discussed, isn't cross-browser. Besides, that's so annoying. It's a ridiculous, tacky and cheap advertising tactic; why use it as a menu?

Alright, the maroon text that I think sais QC looks bad. Make it orange with the rest of the site.

The links, when you scroll overthen the first time the turn orange but before that they are a brownish orange color. I like how they light up to lime greenish. The links should start out with the same color as they end up when you hover over them.

The text looks fine on my 1280x1028 resolution

Way to many links, wow. I've seen this many on forums and such but never on a home page. except those 'noob' pages and link pages

Other than that everything else has been listed.

I like the site, nice job

ye, a good site with a nice layout colour scheme and fast loading webpages - they load instantly for me

Good Job!

Sorry people. The real-space-time kind of kept me apart from the cyber-space-time for a while.

conorific,



Any constructive criticism is always welcome. I appreciate the intention to help more than the language used.



Although, I won't use it. But why do you say that a static scrolled menu cannot be cross browser compatible? Here is an example of one such thing.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicinde ... icmenu.htm

And I have seen wonderful and clever use of such menus. Example:
http://biomutation.gfxdiary.com/



Bladesling,

As I already mentioned, the forum links will be moved from the present place. I linked them from the main page for now, to get the forum crawled. I already got about 400 forum pages indexed. I want to wait a few more weeks. Though there seems to be many links but they are all internal. Infact the entire web site with over 500 pages contains may be 20/30 external links, most of them in the forum. The main page has only one link to an external site that is a client site and links back to us.

I will experiment with the logo color. And special thanks for the font info.



webinv and MJB3k,

Thanks for your inspiration.

I agree with a lot of what conorific has said, (s)he seems to have a similar way of reviewing as me Anyway:


Never ever ever use px for specifying font sizes. Ever. Always use % or em's, your site should wrap text and be designed so that people with poor eyesight can easilly cahnge font size.

It's hard to notice on my 700MHz 64 MB RAM computer at work. I've never seen a problem with this property, myself.


Gotta agree here. "Standards compliance" and "cross browser" seem to be seen as dirty words by a lot of web designers. They aren't, and IMHO it displays a lack of professionalism and a lack of care in your work. My minimum is all latest browser versions and preferably IE5.0+. Mozilla is as widely used as IE5, so there is no excuse to ignore it.

On to my actual review. I love what you have done visually, I like the colours and layout in general, it definately strikes as being different to the norm and instantly catches the eye. However i didn't like where the right-hand fixed thing floating in the middle of the screen, it seems like it would look better at the bottom of the screen, fixed there....

Secondly I don't like the way your left links hover in Moz. I definately don't like the way they hover with JS off! JS should be sprinkled over the top, stuff should still look nice with it off, even if it doesn't look perfect.

I'm not sure about the under-line swapping to a bottom border on hover, it looks a little glitchy to me. I would suggest to keep it as a border on both, just change the colour (which should reduce code needed as well.

Font sizes are a little small but not too bad.

I understand the reasons for the forum links being there, but it looks rather unprofessional. and why does this:need to be there, right in the middle of your page, <i>before</i> the scope of our services bit?? I would suggest just some small text links at the very bottom of the page, thats all you need to get crawled.

"Site Map" does not give a site map of the site, it goes to the forum.

You say you have tried to reduce the code, but just by glancing through your markup, I found quite a few examples of these:


I have no idea what these are supposed to do, you could also remove all of your tables to improve efficiency. You site would be pretty easy to go tableless with. Also take this:

You have about 5 instances of this style on a div, which is perfect for whacking a class on. In fact, you would do better to scrap all of them, as it is only being used for links. An unordered list would be much more appropriate.

use list tags for lists, and use css to get image bullets. Image tags are a waste of space in this context.

Overall, the site looks very nice, but is far from perfect. There are a lot of ways that your site could be improved in all sorts of directions.