Review Request : www.01site.net

well laid out and structured. I think it needs a bit more graphics and some reds / greens - other colors in small amounts

I created an account, but to be honest I became confused, not sure what everything is

Your site loads pretty quick, has all the required elements for a visitor, I would have to agree that it could use a little more color. If you haven't been to http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html before, this site can help find a complementary color.

The one thing that I don't quite "get" is the frames. The one for your logo doesn't allow me to move the logo, even though I only see about half or it. The one under your right side bar works, but seems unnecessary.

I should say that I'm on a Mac, which may be the reason for some of the frame problems.

Hope some of this helps, good luck.

Thank you, yes I also think this needs more color, but was working on the interface proportioning.

I will checkout your link for colors.

And yes there is this frame-problem on macs.
Actually these are not frames but layers. Scrollbars appear in layers on mac, I gathered some probable remedy tips for this problem, if you could checkout some pages it would be cool.

Thank you for your review!

I don't know what screen resolution you have designed for by the layers at the top with the scrolling text sit over each other at 800*600 for me.

Hello Julia, it should be ok from 800x600 on ...

Ah ok you mean the javascript scroller? Yes it is fixed so it overlaps the logo, will fix that, thank you!

But the interface to review is inside, you have to create an account to access it. http://www.01site.net

Darn, I had a nice reply written out but my browser crashed (clicked on one of those "new sites" on the left side).

Firstly, weird things are happening in Opera. When the page loads I'm getting sent to the bottom of it where there is a big hunk of empty space. I also see a horizontal scrollbar but it's greyed out so there is no actual scrolling. I've never seen that before.

About the layout, the logo and navbars need more emphasis (larger proportion of the page, more graphic emphasis). I also wonder why there are two logos in the header area (and a box outline that must hold an ad). I think the biggest poroblem with this is that it does nothing to draw the user in and explain why they need this service. I really don't care about what you're doing to improve the site - I care about what you can do for me. If I wasn't reviewing this site for you I would probably leave by now.

I'll try signing up anyway just to give you some feedback. THe "in depth" page doesn't load for me so I really don't know what I'm siging up for here. This registration process is rather confusing. I expected more than an e-mail and password box to create an account. Usually there's more information to input in a registration (and usually the site wants to confirm your e-mail address too, so they know they can get ahold of you when they need to.) I see a message show up on the front page briefly but the page reloads so fast that I can't read it. Then I get a javascript prompt asking for a project name and now I'm into some sort of interface and I don't really know what I'm supposed to do with it. There needs to be some explanation here on how to use the interface and what the terminology means (what is a project? What are you creating?). I also see some links along the top but they're blue on a blue background so I can't read them at all.

Overall, very confusing. More explanation is needed on what this service is and how it works.

Oh, wait, the "in depth" page does load, it just sends me to the bottom of the page again where there's a big hunk of white space taking up my whole screen so I didn't even see anything at first. The information here is already too complicated since I don't even know the basics about this service.

I only tested it on win/ie and mozilla.

Thanks for the hints, will install opera and check it.

The 2 logos are in case one will get away

I will try to find some time to setup a color scheme together.

Did you open an account and browse the interface?

Ok I see you did.

Yes Registration needs only email and a password, then you receive a confirmation but you don't need to activate it.

When the system sees that you have 0 projects (sites) it will prompt you to create one, then to choose an editable template.
You then choose an editable template and click on create, that's it.
You are then redirected to the Project (site)-interface where you can edit the site.

I think you are right, it needs more explanation.

Thank you!

Read my post again - I edited it to add feedback about my experience creating an account. Sorry about that - I was a little worried my browser was going to crash again and lose my post (not that that happens often! It was just that one site I guess)

Thank you, these are good points you address.
I will try to fix the jumping to the bottom - after downloading opera.
Does that happen also in the interface? I guess not.
Do you remember what site crashed? was it the one on top?

Regarding the explanation: Do you think prompts are enough or is text more appropriate?
I thought of simply putting explanation text on the side of each possible action, I just hope it doesn't confuse and fill up the screen.

Guest Login
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Email = guest
Passw = guest

This is because maybe not everybody wants to register.
But registration is simple (only email and password) and with your own account you can build/continue to further test everything.

Else I've been working on the interface, now I'm implementing a color-scheme.

worked on the interface the last days, it starts looking better what do you think?

what are your critics about usability?

thanks so far for comments, I will work the next days or so on usability vs . the interface, comments welcome.

hi, please review the new version of 01site.net content management.

the layout of the site and the content management application has been totally redesigned and a new version of both is being beta tested.

Please create an account and test the content management application itself, a hosted online cms solution for creating blogs and any other type of website.

please signal any layout/functional anomality you may detect.

Thanks

Wow. Orange. Interesting layout though.