Review?

[Alexishost]

Please kindly review www.alexishost.com design, services, and web copy.

Any improvement need to be add?

[ConradGarrett]

Your site looks great and very professional but I think that the information about your services are all cramped on your homepage. If it was me, I might make different pages and categories for each service. Anyone who's not very familiar with webhosting and etc. may get overwhelmed with your homepage. But I think that you were able to present your services very well.

[Shahrier]

I absolutely love the theme and graphics.

I think you need a better banner. And getting on to your site, it loads a bit slow.

Otherwise, Its a pretty good site.

[mv5869]

Its a nice looking site. Did you create it all yourself or use a design template?

One important suggestion: All of your pages have the same Meta title. You should change that to something unique. Its very important for SEO.

Overall, nice looking site with a professional "big man" feel to it. Good luck.

[GekiDan]

Since you planned to close the old thread, and I see nothing changed based on my previous visit, I would like to repost my review:

BANNER: The banner seems to need more refinements. It looks too simple compared to the other graphics in the template. It's much better to see a banner as good as the other graphics on the site.

Drop Down Menus: I found out that the navigation's drop down menu is using transparent white background. For the menus under the Domains, VPS, Specials, SSL and Demo, some of them can't easily be read since they go above the red texts in the image below. How about changing the BG green and text to white?

Layout: I noticed that there are white spaces below the payments options. I wonder if it's just me. I'm using Firefox. Here's a screen shot of it:

http://img816.imageshack.us/img816/8043/59062957.th.jpg (http://img816.imageshack.us/i/59062957.jpg/)

Contact: May I know why is the contact details kinda censored? Like Sup*** and the others?

Title: The title seems to be very long. According to SEOCentro.com (http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html)

Title is too long.
This tag contain 3292 characters. This is too many for what we would consider a 'robot friendly' web page. The maximum number of characters we recommend for this tag is 80.

[Fergal]

The fact that the homepage is so long, makes it look a little unprofessional, in my opinion. Does the home page need to be that long?

[Alexishost]

any further feedback for current improvement?

Thanks for fergal, gekidan, and all members support. I really appreciate your time, effort and thought.


Have great day.

[GekiDan]

any further feedback for current improvement?
It looks very much better. The long blank space is finally gone.
To be honest, the top header still needs more work to get more attactive.

But I noticed no changes made on this one:

Drop Down Menus: I found out that the navigation's drop down menu is using transparent white background. For the menus under the Domains, VPS, Specials, SSL and Demo, some of them can't easily be read since they go above the red texts in the image below. How about changing the BG green and text to white?
Well, it's your decision for not changing that so I have nothing against it. :D

BTW, I have noticed that the links on your footer has a missing "|" (honestly, I don't know what to call that character). Especially between Donate to Haiti, Red Cross and BAF's links. It'll be more consistent if they have one in the middle.

[pakiboyg]

Very nice website & very nice variation of background color & text color.
Kindly decrease the size of text a little bit.

[extremeseo2020]

Seeems good , You can add ALT tags for your site footer links.

[Alexishost]

Thanks Geki, I love your feedback. I get it improved now. Any additional feedback? web copy, design need to improve better?

[50Cent]

Background: Why don't you just keep the whole site background white? instead of black top and white bottom?

Footer links: Using red colors for the footer links is a bit hurting eyes for me. Others i do not know.

Banner: I think your banner need some revisions? Because it is very blur for the text and it is also obvious that your banner is a huge and long one because i can see your banner edges. Why you did not go and ask someone or designers to help you design a professional logo? As it can add on to your professionalism too.

Overall: The sites look great clean and professional which i like it except for the things i point out. Especially the banner.

[GekiDan]

Background: Why don't you just keep the whole site background white? instead of black top and white bottom?
I have nothing against it. It looks more Web 2.0ish than any other sites with a single color background.

[50Cent]

I have nothing against it. It looks more Web 2.0ish than any other sites with a single color background.

Ok then, maybe it is against me only. :)

[WebWizard]

Looks great, much better :)

[Kay]

Alexis, a few points on the copy if I may. I've put the corrections under the original lines in italics. :)

Hosting over 500.000 Business Owner
Hosting over 500.000 Business Owners
(Should be plural. Is that 500 or half a million? If it's 500,000 use a comma - not a period. If it's 500, drop the extra zeroes.)


Our servers are strategically collocated in LambdaNet, Kiel, Germany. It is well know as part of the connecting internet backbones between Europe and North America.

Our servers are strategically located in LambdaNet, Kiel, Germany. It is a well known part of the connecting internet backbones between Europe and North America.


50+ FREE Instant Softwares Installations
50+ FREE Instant Software Installations


Contact our sales Department team for assistance(S) or Secure your order to day . We can help !
Contact our Sales Department team for assistance or Secure your order today. We can help!
(Note you also need to move the period and exclamation mark in the above.)


Does your business need a blog to build relationship with your client or inform the latest product information?
Does your business need a blog to build upon your client relationships or inform them of your latest products?


Our typical clients are individual Business owners, small business owners, entrepreneurs, young entrepreneur, and smart individuals who want to start or grow their business online. Alexishost stands for High value for money, better website hosting services , better backup , Eco-conscious and Innovation.

Our typical clients are sole business owners and young entrepreneurs. These are smart business individuals who want to either start their small business or entrepreneurial enterprise online, or take their existing one to new heights. Alexishost offers these professionals High value for money, better website hosting services, better backup, Eco-consciousness and Innovation.


You have a lot more Alexis that needs fixed I'm afraid. These were the ones that jumped out at me. Go over your copy carefully.

[WebWizard]

Great review Kay :) Thats alot of great advice.

[Alexishost]

Love it. thanks Kay.

Someone in my developer team should make changes on it. any further feedback?


Alexis, a few points on the copy if I may. I've put the corrections under the original lines in italics. :)

Hosting over 500.000 Business Owner
Hosting over 500.000 Business Owners
(Should be plural. Is that 500 or half a million? If it's 500,000 use a comma - not a period. If it's 500, drop the extra zeroes.)


Our servers are strategically collocated in LambdaNet, Kiel, Germany. It is well know as part of the connecting internet backbones between Europe and North America.

Our servers are strategically located in LambdaNet, Kiel, Germany. It is a well known part of the connecting internet backbones between Europe and North America.


50+ FREE Instant Softwares Installations
50+ FREE Instant Software Installations


Contact our sales Department team for assistance(S) or Secure your order to day . We can help !
Contact our Sales Department team for assistance or Secure your order today. We can help!
(Note you also need to move the period and exclamation mark in the above.)


Does your business need a blog to build relationship with your client or inform the latest product information?
Does your business need a blog to build upon your client relationships or inform them of your latest products?


Our typical clients are individual Business owners, small business owners, entrepreneurs, young entrepreneur, and smart individuals who want to start or grow their business online. Alexishost stands for High value for money, better website hosting services , better backup , Eco-conscious and Innovation.

Our typical clients are sole business owners and young entrepreneurs. These are smart business individuals who want to either start their small business or entrepreneurial enterprise online, or take their existing one to new heights. Alexishost offers these professionals High value for money, better website hosting services, better backup, Eco-consciousness and Innovation.


You have a lot more Alexis that needs fixed I'm afraid. These were the ones that jumped out at me. Go over your copy carefully.

[agentmanningctu]

I'm going to agree with 50Cent. The black at the top seems a little funky.

The homepage looks cramped. I know you are listing all of the great features, but it's just too long.

[Alexishost]

Are you Sure?


I'm going to agree with 50Cent. The black at the top seems a little funky.

The homepage looks cramped. I know you are listing all of the great features, but it's just too long.

[Shole]

Is it just me or do you get sended to the bottom of the page?
Well nvm that the host looks great i may be using the affiliate thingy :D

[GekiDan]

Is it just me or do you get sended to the bottom of the page?
Well nvm that the host looks great i may be using the affiliate thingy :D
What do you mean by "sended to the bottom of the page"?

[Shole]

What do you mean by "sended to the bottom of the page"?

I go to the site and then it auto scrolls down to
Uptime
99.9% Uptime Guarantee is our commitment to you and round-the-clock efforts to keep our network running for you .
I don't know if it is just me or does it do it to all or is it supposed to be so....

[PaulPinnacle]

any further feedback?
In terms of the copy, there are quite a few little slips similar to the ones Kay pointed out. If you run the copy through any word processor with a spell checker and grammatical checker, it will pick up the vast majority of issues.

The banner is certainly the weak point of the page. First impressions last. As this is the first thing a visitor will see, it's work making the effort to ensure it's putting you forward in the best possible light. If you intend to keep it as relatively standard text, then don't use an image at all and replace it with 'on page' text so that you gain the SEO benefits and get rid of the pixelated italic text (it looks horrid - getting the 'numbers' on page also provides benefits in terms of localization for SEO). I'd personally suggest going and getting a professional banner done up, including a logo to make the 'AlexisHost' far more striking/memorable. (I'd also try and avoid cheesy stock images that always appear to be fairly attractive females, it's not exactly the professional image you're hoping to convey)

To the left and right upper edges of the nav bar the background edges have been rounded. This means that there's a small section of the black background visible between the upper white and lower white background. This is serving no purpose and just a distraction. I'd square off the edges here so that it's a flow of white background between the two.

I agree with the other comments that the length of the homepage is a little intimidating. The fact that it's good information makes it difficult to know which to relocate, it is all relevant, but it's just too much to digest on a single page. The obvious choice is to move the "Packages" information to another page, but I'm not sure that is enough on its own to resolve the problem.

Looking at your analytics, does the use of the 'purchase' section on each page warrant its inclusion? I've never seen it be presented on every page like that (I'm not sure I've ever suggested someone put an extra hurdle between the customer and a purchase before, but in this case I think it would be acceptable or even preferable).

If someone is ready to buy, I don't think they'd be put off by hitting that one extra link (yet you save having a hugely long page across the entire site). This one is very subjective and something you need to decide for yourself. Moving that lower section from the pages would make the site far more digestible to someone still weighing up the offers. Maybe others here on BAF can give their views if they feel that would be a negative?

You're offering help/advice to clients on setting up both blogs and forums, yet there doesn't appear to be either on your own site. This would certainly lead me to question the 'benefit' (and/or ability) relating to both (I'll assume it's down to 'time' issues for running/maintaining both, but something to consider).

As a hosting provider, I'd expect to see every server side trick being employed to tweak the performance of a website (even if only as part of showing what you can provide). I'd consider enabling compression, enabling browser caching and serving static content from a cookieless domain.. if only to show your clients that you're aware of it and that you can provide it.

There are a huge number of validation errors on the page. This may not be a problem, but seeing so many would raise the question of the cross browser compatibility of the site, something to be very aware of.

Title: The most any SE's will show in a SERP is 70 characters (google). You should try and limit it to 65 characters to ensure most major SE's can display it. Your title is currently 182 characters long, meaning any benefits are diluted and it won't display correctly in any SE (it reads more like a keyword list than a title, so potential to be flagged as keyword spamming by SE's). (Also a lot of repetition of title tags, should be unique to each page)

Meta Description: Currently too short. You want the description to appear as the snippet on SERP's, so best to follow the SE guidlines and feed them what they want. You should aim for between 50 and 150 characters (I'd always aim on the high side, so 100-150). This is your 'sales pitch' on the results page, so don't waste it.

Heading tags: Every page should have 1 h1 tag. The heading tags should follow on in sequential order to explain the most important factors of the page to the SE's and employ correct semantic mark up. On the home page, it just jumps to h3. Use a single h1 to include the most important keyword on the page (so something relating to 'business hosting' I'd assume) and then include relevant headers to break up the other sections. You can retain the look of the page as is by changing the style of the headers via the CSS (e.g. make the banner your h1 and use CSS image replacement if needed).

If you have any clients working in the SEO field, perhaps you could do a deal with them to provide some help in that area in return for some free hosting? There are lots of areas where the performance of the site could be greatly increased.

[mv5869]

What a great review. Paul - you should charge for these!

[Tejmal]

The homepage looks really good but it's too long and there is a lot of white space just above the footer and it makes the homepage look even bigger.

[Alexishost]

Thank you.

I appreciate your well-thought and well written suggestion.
I will issue this to appropriate department in my company. they should make changes as soon as possible.

what do you specialize at? Paul?

In terms of the copy, there are quite a few little slips similar to the ones Kay pointed out. If you run the copy through any word processor with a spell checker and grammatical checker, it will pick up the vast majority of issues.

The banner is certainly the weak point of the page. First impressions last. As this is the first thing a visitor will see, it's work making the effort to ensure it's putting you forward in the best possible light. If you intend to keep it as relatively standard text, then don't use an image at all and replace it with 'on page' text so that you gain the SEO benefits and get rid of the pixelated italic text (it looks horrid - getting the 'numbers' on page also provides benefits in terms of localization for SEO). I'd personally suggest going and getting a professional banner done up, including a logo to make the 'AlexisHost' far more striking/memorable. (I'd also try and avoid cheesy stock images that always appear to be fairly attractive females, it's not exactly the professional image you're hoping to convey)

To the left and right upper edges of the nav bar the background edges have been rounded. This means that there's a small section of the black background visible between the upper white and lower white background. This is serving no purpose and just a distraction. I'd square off the edges here so that it's a flow of white background between the two.

I agree with the other comments that the length of the homepage is a little intimidating. The fact that it's good information makes it difficult to know which to relocate, it is all relevant, but it's just too much to digest on a single page. The obvious choice is to move the "Packages" information to another page, but I'm not sure that is enough on its own to resolve the problem.

Looking at your analytics, does the use of the 'purchase' section on each page warrant its inclusion? I've never seen it be presented on every page like that (I'm not sure I've ever suggested someone put an extra hurdle between the customer and a purchase before, but in this case I think it would be acceptable or even preferable).

If someone is ready to buy, I don't think they'd be put off by hitting that one extra link (yet you save having a hugely long page across the entire site). This one is very subjective and something you need to decide for yourself. Moving that lower section from the pages would make the site far more digestible to someone still weighing up the offers. Maybe others here on BAF can give their views if they feel that would be a negative?

You're offering help/advice to clients on setting up both blogs and forums, yet there doesn't appear to be either on your own site. This would certainly lead me to question the 'benefit' (and/or ability) relating to both (I'll assume it's down to 'time' issues for running/maintaining both, but something to consider).

As a hosting provider, I'd expect to see every server side trick being employed to tweak the performance of a website (even if only as part of showing what you can provide). I'd consider enabling compression, enabling browser caching and serving static content from a cookieless domain.. if only to show your clients that you're aware of it and that you can provide it.

There are a huge number of validation errors on the page. This may not be a problem, but seeing so many would raise the question of the cross browser compatibility of the site, something to be very aware of.

Title: The most any SE's will show in a SERP is 70 characters (google). You should try and limit it to 65 characters to ensure most major SE's can display it. Your title is currently 182 characters long, meaning any benefits are diluted and it won't display correctly in any SE (it reads more like a keyword list than a title, so potential to be flagged as keyword spamming by SE's). (Also a lot of repetition of title tags, should be unique to each page)

Meta Description: Currently too short. You want the description to appear as the snippet on SERP's, so best to follow the SE guidlines and feed them what they want. You should aim for between 50 and 150 characters (I'd always aim on the high side, so 100-150). This is your 'sales pitch' on the results page, so don't waste it.

Heading tags: Every page should have 1 h1 tag. The heading tags should follow on in sequential order to explain the most important factors of the page to the SE's and employ correct semantic mark up. On the home page, it just jumps to h3. Use a single h1 to include the most important keyword on the page (so something relating to 'business hosting' I'd assume) and then include relevant headers to break up the other sections. You can retain the look of the page as is by changing the style of the headers via the CSS (e.g. make the banner your h1 and use CSS image replacement if needed).

If you have any clients working in the SEO field, perhaps you could do a deal with them to provide some help in that area in return for some free hosting? There are lots of areas where the performance of the site could be greatly increased.

[PaulPinnacle]

what do you specialize at? Paul?
I work in online marketing and advertising, so basically all of the normal three letter acronyms. I'm currently in the process of forming a new company in the sector, so always a fun time.

[50dolars]

I want to contract with your company. But do not know how? I was in Vietnam

[Fergal]

Which company do you want to contract with 50dolars?

[PaulPinnacle]

If you visit the 'contact us (http://alexishost.com/contact-us.html)' page on their site, you'll find various ways to get in touch with the AlexisHost team. They have 3 sales departments available for contact, a form you can submit on the site to make your query or a live chat feature if you'd prefer a more engaged discussion.

I'm sure AlexisHost would also be more than happy for you to contact him directly via the forum (private message or email) to assist in any way he can.

[Alexishost]

Happy for improvement.
I love the current improvement. Thanks all for your support. and thanks for you paul, fergal, geki and all other member for being so help full.

If you need work as junior sales manager, you contact me in this forum paul- as the way I am saying thanks for you.

If there any small improvement that you suggest, I am happy to know it.

Thanks again!

[Andym]

You posted this request on June 2010 and I am sure there must be a lot of improvement that you made to your website with the help of member review. To me, the current website presentation seems to be perfect. I would suggest, you must have already started promoting your services on social networks and you must add the social media buttons on your website. Another thing to note down, is the length of your home page, it is too long. If you can decrease the length by compiling & adjusting some of the stuff, it will be more good to browse through & more user friendly.

[Alexishost]

Thanks
Thanks andym. I will note it. and will improve it.

The lenght of the site
Some creative guy has add call an action button on our site... so the visitor do not need read all of the presentation to get their account.

I need last 1 or two feedbacks.. there is always room for improvement I think.


You posted this request on June 2010 and I am sure there must be a lot of improvement that you made to your website with the help of member review. To me, the current website presentation seems to be perfect. I would suggest, you must have already started promoting your services on social networks and you must add the social media buttons on your website.

[Matt]

I think that the navigation button is a bit too low on the page. It should be moved up. I also think that that page should be shortened. For example, you could put the We value customers' satisfaction section in little boxes that go across the screen instead of down.

[thinkdeeper]

all the long info on your homepage..scrolling scrolling etc. is not ideal if you ask me.
Perhaps you can make that more digestible to the eyes. The top part looks pretty good.

[Jerlene]

The header looks amateurish. You should get a new logo done and make the words on the top right of the site more elegant. The red is really bland. I would throw more effects on there or just make those words all black, and thin while you're at it. No need to bold them. Also, the alignment is a little off.