This Design vs. That Design

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I don't think you need the flash intro's. I didn't watch all of both of them, but they seem rather simplistic and beginner-ish to me.

For the first one:

The first thing that stands out to me on here is the drop shadows on the numbers - those are way too big!!! IMHO big drop shadows almost always look cheesy.

The logo looks good on here - I think that it should be featured more prominently in the design. The black that dominates the rest of the design kind of overpowers it I think. That logo would look good with a more minimalist design - mostly white with red and a little black.

You've also got too many font sizes and styles on the right side "account features" section.

The second one is much better. I'm not sure about the fluorescent yellow - I would have gone with something a little less greenish, but this colour sure does stand out!

Again, shrink down your drop shadows. The $19.95 and $29.95 ones are cut off too. The four s's on the right side need to be spaced out a little bit I think.

ON the FAQ page you've got bright blue links on a lighter blue background - not good. Eew! And bright green vlinks - something needs to be done about that.

On some of the pages there is a white line underneath the navbar but on some of them there isn't.

I don't know about you but I tend to find "Click here" to be really annoying (TEch Support page) - why don't you just link the header text?

The first design seems to over-use the bold, fairly large text and it really clutters the design more than anything. In addition, the drop-shadows in the first design also bug me.

On the other hand, the second design was much better in my opinion. It really seems to fit the idea of a futuristic hosting company with ROCKET in its name

I like how it all fits together except for the unusually large text in the bottom right hand corner with the pro's of signing up with Host Rocket. Oh yeah -- I like the use of the drop-shadows in the second design as opposed to the first design. Good job.

Definitely #2! So I'm just going to review that one.

1) You overuse the drop-shadows. I think for the price part it looks good (you need to fix it though, 'cause the shadow is cut off), but the one you use up next to the logo looks down right horrible. It would look much better as just plain text.

2) The corners of the site are jagged. At least the top two are. Looks like the bottom two are fine.

3) I don't like the big white bar that seperates 'Account Features' from 'Hostrocket News.' It really stick out like a sore thumb in my opinion.

4) For some reason the four 'S' thing at the bottom of the main page looks really cheesy to me. I can't figure out why though. Funny....

Overall I think it's a big improvement over the last design...

Yes, definetly #2.

However, on number one: The Flash Intro is really stupid, I'd just scrap it.

Onto Number Two.

I agree with everything that Justin said, so this'll be rather short, since I won't repost all of his comments [if it ain't broke...]

1). The site seems to static, add some Mouseovers to that top bar. It'd look great.
2). I don't like all of the little arrows, perhaps instead of having a big line of them on the center of the page where the account features are listed, you could make separate categories [Supported Scripting Languages, Line Speed, etc.]

Other than that, looks alright.