Finally... We launched Dynamized 2.0

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Finally... We launched Dynamized 2.0

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Ok, we still have work to do, but most of it is done. I see it as a beta right now :P
Please go to: http://www.dynamized.com

Test it, abuse it, do whatever you want. Try with as many browsers and OS's and do with it whatever you want.
Please say what you think and feel free to give your comments, suggestions... anything, any feedback you have :P

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I think that if you'd move things around a bit it'd be even better. Whitespace is good, but the empty room right of the logo is a bit too much. Especially since the three lines of text below it are
Home
Welcome
To your new webhost!

You could try to put that in a single line next to the logo. Pick one nice font, and everything else can move up.

Also, you could line out the boxes on the right a bit better with the search box. Just a detail, but it could help.

I like the basics of the site. Clean, whitespace, not too busy.
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What search box are you talking about?

P.S Thanks for the comments :wink:
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Generally like the site although agree that the white space on top is a bit excessive. Couple of other points as well...

1) Light Blue headers don't really show up, especially where you have darker blue table headers.
2) Clicking submit on the login changes the style completely. Could discourage users who think they are being redirected elsewhere. :wink:

One tool I have been known to use in regards to colour is Accessibility Color Wheel unfortunately haven't got time to see what the blue vs white comes up with on that as i really should get some sleep.
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CoderGoblin wrote:Generally like the site although agree that the white space on top is a bit excessive. Couple of other points as well...
I didn't even notice that. I don't think much is going to be changed though.
CoderGoblin wrote:1) Light Blue headers don't really show up, especially where you have darker blue table headers.
Would you explain? What are you talking about? The background is white :?
CoderGoblin wrote:2) Clicking submit on the login changes the style completely. Could discourage users who think they are being redirected elsewhere. :wink:
This will probably be changed, but not soon, only later on...
CoderGoblin wrote:One tool I have been known to use in regards to colour is Accessibility Color Wheel
Yeah, I know this tool and even have it in my Bookmarks under the Accessibility folder that I have. Great tool :D
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Oren wrote:What search box are you talking about?
Sorry about that, I meant login box of course :oops:

As for the whitespace at the top: it's not so much the space right of the logo, as well as what's below the logo. If I take a look at the current homepage, there's a lot of stuff screaming for attention (in other words, distracting), without much real value:

"Home
Welcome
To your new webhost!
Save Now! We have recently revised our plans to give you more features for less!
Welcome"

Ok, the "save now" part does have it's function. But you see what I mean? I know it's a consequence of the way you have chose to set up the templates for the site (with the title and subtitle and all), but in this specific case it doesn't work that well or could be improved I think.

One other small thing: the red for the links. They have no underlines and some other pieces of text are the same color red. Even though with one hover over the red people will know something is not a link, visually it's a bit confusing. Above that, the links in the footer do have a text-decoration. I like the dotted border there, so why not use that style on all links?

I know these might seem like trivial details. Well, that's better then when I would have said "butt ugly site I closed my browser immediately" isn't it? :)
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Oren wrote: Would you explain? What are you talking about? The background is white :?
Starting with the homepage you have headers such as 'Welcome','Hosting For Developers, By Developers','Developer Highlights' and 'Responsive Support'. The light blue used does not show up (IMO :D ) well against the white background. This is especially important when looking at the Hosting Page where you have table Headers which are also blue (slightly darker) which tends to draw the eye rather than the thin light blue header text (h1, h2 ?).

Hope that makes it clearer.
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Well I think that the blue on the white is great so it's not going to be changed.
matthijs wrote:If I take a look at the current homepage, there's a lot of stuff screaming for attention (in other words, distracting), without much real value:
Why not? It's very cool and funny in my opinion.
matthijs wrote:One other small thing: the red for the links. They have no underlines and some other pieces of text are the same color red. Even though with one hover over the red people will know something is not a link, visually it's a bit confusing. Above that, the links in the footer do have a text-decoration. I like the dotted border there, so why not use that style on all links?
Thanks, will be fixed in the next few days. I can't make changes without the owner's permission... well technically I can, but I don't want to :P
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Oren wrote:Well I think that the blue on the white is great so it's not going to be changed.
I quite like it as well (if I could recognise it was a header and could see it better). What does it look like if you make it bold ? Or change it from #D7E3EF to the blue on these forums (#E78228). Shouldn't be hard to just compare if set with CSS.
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Oh that's ok... it's an header but doesn't look like, I know, that's exactly how it should be.
Thanks for the feedback by the way :wink:

I'll try to change the style using my Web Developer tool so I don't need to make any changes to the css file :P

Edit: I tried to make it bold and at first I couldn't decide which is better, but after a bit thinking I decided to leave it as it is now as it looks more "web 2.0-ish" that way :P

By the way, are we talking on the same thing? The blue titles are in #73a0b7 not the color you mentioned :?
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Probably because I used a color picker which could have got it slightly wrong... :oops:
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Ok, I changed the links as you suggested. It looks much better now.
Thanks :wink:
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Post by Luke »

It looks great! One thing I noticed is that the headrs don't stand out very much. "Hosting For Developers, By Developers" - I can barely read that. Headers should stand out from text in some way.
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I don't know if you've read the whole thread, but this was already mentioned and as I said - it's not likely going to be changed.
That's ok, I kinda don't know how to explain it, but they aren't that important. For the things which need to stand out we use the <h2>.
So now you'll ask me why not swap the <h1> style with the <h2> style... because then I'll need to replace every <h1> in the markup with <h2> and every <h2> with <h1>. This will result many <h1>'s which come right after <h2>'s. Example:

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<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
And that way, the page won't validate of course.
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Oren... Told you so :P


(only kidding here... Please take it in the fun spirit it is intended).
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