Ohhh, you shouldn't have said that. LOL *just kidding*
Welcome to TWF Ethyn!
With a name like Xippy.com surely you can come up with a cute, catchy, little logo for the top part instead of just plain text.
Seems to me like your menu doesn't stand out enough. Bigger font maybe with rollovers and above the user log in. Or you could put them across the top. You aren't overwhelmed with menu links so they should fit nicely up top, horizontally.
Did you leave your table borders turned on for a reason?
There are a couple of sentences that do not have a font face on the "How it works" page.
Your Terms of Serice: header is a different color blue than the others.
I thought the same thing about the name there. Xippy is such a cool name, you should definitely try to come up with something more fun for the logo, and the overall design as well. (it reminds me of this stuffed pink elephant my sister used to have named Zippy. You could use a pink elephant for your logo! Ha! Just kidding.) It could be a cool idea to create a little character or something like that to represent "Xippy"... Also lose the blue and yellow (yawn...) and try something more exciting.
Keep an eye on your fonts here - I'm thinking that maybe your stylesheet isn't working or something because the navbar area is appearing in a serif rather than the sans you have for the body (using Opera6)
I was just thinking that you could use a little character to be Xippy, a face or something and get a nice bold, unique looking font for the logo. Definitely need to do something with the links as they are appearing as serif in IE5.5 too and they could do with livening up anyway with some colour, maybe a rollover. I'd say use a stylesheet and get rid of all the font tags, that way you'll have more control over links as well.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
disaster-master posted this at 08:09 — 14th May 2002.
I can't remember where I got this dingbat from but I found it again here (which is an extensive font resource page): http://www.indexbrasil.net/fontsdepot/
Scroll down to the sub-heading "Dingbat Fonts" (about half way down)and find "Kooksters". You can download it there. After you download it, read the "readme" file. It has copyright info there.
"Xippy.com's additional features include: removing banner ads from the most common ad servers in our database, disabling scripts and blocking cookies."
It's kinda redundate isn't it? Plus the screenshots don't really look like screenshots, they appear to be form that is functional.
I agree with those who suggested a logo, the top of the page seems a little plain.
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disaster-master posted this at 22:58 — 13th May 2002.
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Ohhh, you shouldn't have said that. LOL
*just kidding*
Welcome to TWF Ethyn!
With a name like Xippy.com surely you can come up with a cute, catchy, little logo for the top part instead of just plain text.
Seems to me like your menu doesn't stand out enough. Bigger font maybe with rollovers and above the user log in. Or you could put them across the top. You aren't overwhelmed with menu links so they should fit nicely up top, horizontally.
Did you leave your table borders turned on for a reason?
There are a couple of sentences that do not have a font face on the "How it works" page.
Your Terms of Serice: header is a different color blue than the others.
Megan posted this at 01:29 — 14th May 2002.
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I thought the same thing about the name there. Xippy is such a cool name, you should definitely try to come up with something more fun for the logo, and the overall design as well. (it reminds me of this stuffed pink elephant my sister used to have named Zippy. You could use a pink elephant for your logo! Ha! Just kidding.) It could be a cool idea to create a little character or something like that to represent "Xippy"... Also lose the blue and yellow (yawn...) and try something more exciting.
Keep an eye on your fonts here - I'm thinking that maybe your stylesheet isn't working or something because the navbar area is appearing in a serif rather than the sans you have for the body (using Opera6)
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The Webmistress posted this at 07:57 — 14th May 2002.
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I was just thinking that you could use a little character to be Xippy, a face or something and get a nice bold, unique looking font for the logo. Definitely need to do something with the links as they are appearing as serif in IE5.5 too and they could do with livening up anyway with some colour, maybe a rollover. I'd say use a stylesheet and get rid of all the font tags, that way you'll have more control over links as well.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
disaster-master posted this at 08:09 — 14th May 2002.
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This looks like a "Xippy" to me.
And here are a COUPLE MORE. I ran across a cool dingbat the other day called Kooksters. That where these came from.
Endure_Racing posted this at 17:33 — 14th May 2002.
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The help is great!
I really appreciate everyone chipping in.
As far as the images go, are they royalty free? Perhaps I will give Xippy.com a mascot!
Once again, thanks.
Ethyn
disaster-master posted this at 18:34 — 14th May 2002.
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I can't remember where I got this dingbat from but I found it again here (which is an extensive font resource page):
http://www.indexbrasil.net/fontsdepot/
Scroll down to the sub-heading "Dingbat Fonts" (about half way down)and find "Kooksters". You can download it there. After you download it, read the "readme" file. It has copyright info there.
Also, here is a tutorial on using dingbats that may come in handy.(consisits of several pages)
mmi posted this at 06:09 — 15th May 2002.
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hey Xippy - a couple of suggested copyedits:
on Features
The ability to disable scripts and block cookies?
on Terms of Service
unless the individuals have specifically requested?
Semi-annually or annually payments - drop the ly's?
"re-instate" is typically not hyphenated
"pro-rated" is typically not hyphenated
if Xippy.com initiates its right of cancellation
for lawful purposes? - also, there's a nbsp in the code in front of that phrase
Federal, State or Local laws - there's really no need to cap any of these, imo - I'd say at least take "local" out of it
but is not restricted to, copyrighted data - optional, I suppose
or handling in any way of obscene or pornographic material
attorneys' fees
its agents, employees or assigns
or any defective products sold to customer - I think
on Guarantee
hyphenate "NON REFUNDABLE"?
Bank charges are not refundable as well - just "bank charges"?
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submit posted this at 19:03 — 17th May 2002.
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Looks fine but this part;
"Xippy.com's additional features include: removing banner ads from the most common ad servers in our database, disabling scripts and blocking cookies."
It's kinda redundate isn't it? Plus the screenshots don't really look like screenshots, they appear to be form that is functional.
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leenkz posted this at 23:35 — 20th May 2002.
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I agree with those who suggested a logo, the top of the page seems a little plain.
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