Site Testing/Reviews - Rewards/Cash/Prizes!!

[Gorillaz]

Review Needed - Prizes

Hello, we are in the near end phase of opening www.hostbright.net - We are looking to get some feedback from internet users. We are looking for content suggestions, layout, plans, hostings and whatever wew can do to make the site better visually and most importantly physically so the site is as simple as possible. Host bright will select 3 reviewers who will recieve a coupon for 1 free year of our value basic plan, they will be choosen randomly and delievered via PM.

www.hostbright.net

Thanks,
Zach

 

[Mike]

Outstanding job! Clear and concise layout, easy to follow and navigate. From the expanding menu to a well written copy, there's not much - if anything - missing from a complete site. The logo is well concepted but hasn't been translated into a favicon and the "bookmark us" link, although not essential, is missing. Brilliant idea with the "gift card" and the price match!

In all honesty, you have a very complete package here. One that doesn't need any real alterations, just the minor additions from above.
Other than that, great project - best of luck with your business!

M.

 

[-NC-]

content suggestions, layout, plans, hostings

I'm actually looking for a new budget host after my last one lost all my website files.

Your plans look good, but then I got to this page:
http://www.hostbright.net/special_deals_hosting.php

Now, I don't know if that's just placeholder text you have at the top, but it's nonsense. e.g.

The balanced scorecard, like the executive dashboard, is an essential tool big is no longer impregnable to focus on improvement, not cost.

Also on the homepage you have this text:

If your tired of your current host

this should be "If you're tired", now I know this is pedantic, but for me it's small details like these which make me feel I trust an online company or not.

Also on this page:
http://www.hostbright.net/special_deals_hosting.php
The plan comparison tables state "Parked/Addon domains: unlimited", but then down in the "Domains" section, it says "Multiple Domains: 1", with no mention of how many AddOn domains.

Overall, I think the design has a somewhat cookie cutter template feel to it, but it looks good, professional.

I would suggest:
- Make your logo click through to the homepage ( this is a very common convention )

- Make your meta titles change on each page to be relevant to the content

- Create additional plain html navigation, e.g. if I just click the "hosting" menu item, I might think that those are your only plans. You could have some smallish text on that page under the heading e.g. "Need more? Check out our reseller hosting, VPS and dedicated servers" - then link each keyword to the corresponding page.

e.g. check out what the big boys are doing - GoDaddy has a fly out menu, but if I click on the base "hosting" menu item, i get to a plain page which prompts me to go to either their basic hosting, vps or dedicated.

hope there's something useful for you in there

 

[Cookies]

Looks like a good professional website. The drop down menu looks very smooth and clean.

Few things I would suggest:

- On your blue box saying "Welcome to our grand opening" you should bold up your letters to grab attention of members. The letters are a bit small, and I almost missed it.

- Have some flash animation to enhance your website, and bring it alive.

- The plans on the left should look more noticeable.


"Wondering Why You Should Choose Host Bright"
You should put that in a box. That should be information users WANT to read. Make it visually alerting.


As for the plans, they seem excellent.

- Add some exclamation marks to catch the user's attention.
- Bold words "Unlimited" (Or change font color).



Other than that, your website is excellent. I wish you good luck.

 

[Albino]

it all look very nice, colour scheme is great, sublte and pleasing.


a few things I noticed are:

- logo should link to homepage (as already mentioned)
- if I turn of Js, I can't get to most of the other pages on the dropdown menus. make the actual html link link to a page with all the js links on (just notced has already been said haha)
- some of the headers (testimonials, news, welcome to etc) looks a bit skewed/low quality.

the plans are well layed out and easy to read, and seem to be of pretty good value!

good luck

 

[moby]

Hi Gorillaz

Website looks good, don't have a problem there !

Although i did notice, when i clicked on - Support > Live it said .. Insert here ? Im sure you will sort that out soon.

Also i prefer, and im sure many others - check to see if you have an - Office Address - etc, and phone number or Fax no. etc ( not just -1800 even if its on answer machine
OK.

 

[Hayes]

Also on the homepage you have this text:
this should be "If you're tired", now I know this is pedantic, but for me it's small details like these which make me feel I trust an online company or not.

I agree fully on this. Proper spelling/grammar is very important for a site trying to earn user's trust.

There's many mistakes which you need to spend quite a deal of time finding and fixing. I found one in the first paragraph.

We are dedicated, and our primary focus is providing support in any way possible. We offer both free and paid also plans.

You may also want to watch when you use upper case. Sometime it is used randomly for links and it throws off the flow. Example: "View more specials Here" and "Copyright © 2008 Host Bright. All Rights reserved"

Cheers,

Rob

 

[Traveler]

On the front page just under the logo the toll free number is in white and impossible to see. Other than that the site looks great. Good job!

 

[Gorillaz]

Thanks for all the great responses! They are of much help. Rest assured were not finished so some links dont work, some text may make no sense at all! For those who have reviewed this Thanks very much, I will leave this open for a couple more days before we launch here and then I will give out some free hosting. Also I will post a link with a new post - We will be needing some testers for Spelling errors, links, errors and such and we will be paying cash for those!

Please also know I am looking for everyones honest opinon and it looks good so far. Also rest assured your review text wont effect your chance of winning as it will be 100% Random! Your response is crutial to us in making our site user friendly, and make our web site the best it can be!

MIKE'S Review

Outstanding job! Clear and concise layout, easy to follow and navigate. From the expanding menu to a well written copy, there's not much - if anything - missing from a complete site. The logo is well concepted but hasn't been translated into a favicon and the "bookmark us" link, although not essential, is missing. Brilliant idea with the "gift card" and the price match!

In all honesty, you have a very complete package here. One that doesn't need any real alterations, just the minor additions from above.
Other than that, great project - best of luck with your business!

M.

Response: Thanks very much for the great response. We added a favicon and a bookmark link!

-NC-'s Review

I'm actually looking for a new budget host after my last one lost all my website files.

Your plans look good, but then I got to this page:
http://www.hostbright.net/special_deals_hosting.php

Now, I don't know if that's just placeholder text you have at the top, but it's nonsense. e.g.

Response: Yep, adding the text and more to the top of our matrix's are on the list to do! Also, im sorry to here how they lost your files, I dont understand how they can just lose your files, sounds to me theres more involved on there end. No host should lose files and should offer daily backups if such a thing ever did occur. We would love to have you as a customer in the future if you ever need anything.

Also on the homepage you have this text:
Quote:If your tired of your current host

this should be "If you're tired", now I know this is pedantic, but for me it's small details like these which make me feel I trust an online company or not.

Also on this page:
http://www.hostbright.net/special_deals_hosting.php
The plan comparison tables state "Parked/Addon domains: unlimited", but then down in the "Domains" section, it says "Multiple Domains: 1", with no mention of how many AddOn domains.

Overall, I think the design has a somewhat cookie cutter template feel to it, but it looks good, professional.

I would suggest:
- Make your logo click through to the homepage ( this is a very common convention )

- Make your meta titles change on each page to be relevant to the content

- Create additional plain html navigation, e.g. if I just click the "hosting" menu item, I might think that those are your only plans. You could have some smallish text on that page under the heading e.g. "Need more? Check out our reseller hosting, VPS and dedicated servers" - then link each keyword to the corresponding page.

e.g. check out what the big boys are doing - GoDaddy has a fly out menu, but if I click on the base "hosting" menu item, i get to a plain page which prompts me to go to either their basic hosting, vps or dedicated.

Response: Thanks for the grammar fixes, we will be posting a new post and link looking for testers which includes grammar and will pay, if interested please check back soon. The matrix pages are not finished and will be done soon so thats why you found those mistakes. I forgot about linking the logo/banner and your 100% right and added to my to do list. As well as meta tags. I like the plain html idea and we will have to try and utilize this. Thanks for your input!!

Cookie's Review

Looks like a good professional website. The drop down menu looks very smooth and clean.

Few things I would suggest:

- On your blue box saying "Welcome to our grand opening" you should bold up your letters to grab attention of members. The letters are a bit small, and I almost missed it.

- Have some flash animation to enhance your website, and bring it alive.

- The plans on the left should look more noticeable.


"Wondering Why You Should Choose Host Bright"
You should put that in a box. That should be information users WANT to read. Make it visually alerting.


As for the plans, they seem excellent.

- Add some exclamation marks to catch the user's attention.
- Bold words "Unlimited" (Or change font color).



Other than that, your website is excellent. I wish you good luck.

Response: Great input, we will have to use some of it. We considered flash however im not to great with it, and last time I attempted it I had serious browser compatibility issues which cost me a bundle. In the near future we may consider a flash intro and/or a flash promotional area e.g. theplanet.com

Albino's Review

it all look very nice, colour scheme is great, sublte and pleasing.


a few things I noticed are:

- logo should link to homepage (as already mentioned)
- if I turn of Js, I can't get to most of the other pages on the dropdown menus. make the actual html link link to a page with all the js links on (just notced has already been said haha)
- some of the headers (testimonials, news, welcome to etc) looks a bit skewed/low quality.

the plans are well layed out and easy to read, and seem to be of pretty good value!

Response: Thanks, we realized we had been outputting images wrong in photoshop.

Hayes - We have noticed this a lot, if you have the time look for our post and you could earn some extra money we need people like you to help us out, theres a lot of text and we would like to get this site up, but we want it right and not half of job!!

neobodhi - Thanks that has been fixed!!

Current elgible reviewers for the prizes -

1. Mike
2. -NC-
3. Cookies
4.Albino
5.moby
6.Hayes
7.neobodhi

 

[iulianh]

First of all i have to say that you did an awsome job * Applause * . But i have to tell you some suggestions . On frontpage , where it says " Welcome to our grand opening " , bellow that you should try using an more brighter green combination , it will get the attention better then the current one who is a little dark . On the other pages i have seen that you have an white background, you should try using the same background as the frontpage . I think this will give an plus to the website structure . Beside the things i have writen above i don`t have anyhing else to say but to congrats you for the great website you have done , you really combined all the pro design needs .

Best luck with it,
Iulian

 

[Gorillaz]

Thanks much everyone for all the great reviews! Now that our servers are purchased and setup we are ready to give out some free hosting to all of you for your help! We have decided to pick 3 winners who instead of recieving out Value Bronze (basic) will recieve Value Silver. The others will recieve 1 year of Value Bronze. Below are the lists of the random winner. Please check your PM Box for more information! For notes all winners were picked with I Pick'em 2.60 Shareware so everyone had a equal chance. There were 8 enteries -

1. Mike
2. -NC-
3. Cookies
4.Albino
5.moby
6.Hayes
7.neobodhi
8.iulianh



***Winners***
6- Hayes
7. neobodhi
3-Cookies

Congrats! Check your inbox for details

***Remaining Winners***
1. Mike
2. -NC-
4.Albino
5.moby
8.iulianh

Thanks everyone! Please check for more posts soon including tests (next 1-3 days) and more reviews (will post in the morning)

 

[Mike]

Thanks, i appreciate the prizes. I sent you a PM regarding my prize.

Thanks,

M.

 

[iulianh]

Thanks too, a really great prize . And as i think a lil later will be my birthday *lol* . Thanks for the "present".

Best Regards,
Iulian

 

[domainsatretail]

i tried loading the site and get a "Site error: the file /home/hostb/public_html/index.php requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so to be installed by the site administrator."

 

[Cookies]

i tried loading the site and get a "Site error: the file /home/hostb/public_html/index.php requires the ionCube PHP Loader ioncube_loader_lin_5.2.so to be installed by the site administrator."

I believe he's working on the website. Give him some time.

 

[Hayes]

Gorillaz, thanks very much! I will reply to your PM shortly.

Cheers.

 

[Gorillaz]

Please note - Server downtime will be 10 minutes at the moment for a kernel update and a further approx. 1 hour. For those trying to visit out site. We are being sure every feature is installed, working and up to date so once we launch and put your accounts on it they will be up 99.9% of the time as our policy states!


Cheers,
GorillaZ

 

[Gorillaz]

Sorry about the downtime. The server is brand new so Server Hardening, Security updates, feature updates so on all had to be performed before we launch and before clients are placed on it. Soley because we want our servers to be 100% of the time!

Be sure to check us out
www.hostbright.net

For those who replied to the PM check your box for your account details!

Enjoy,
GorillaZ

 

[Cookies]

Received information of Hosting. FTP works, and so does everything else.

Thanks!

 

[Gorillaz]

Hello,

Once again HostBright.net is seeking some reviews as well as testers. We are looking for Spelling/Grammar, broken links, Plan suggestions, general reviews, and more. We are going to give away 5 Value Bronze Hosting plans (1 year) to Reviewers. On top of reviews we are offering Cash/Credit to Testers. You are welcome to participate in both parts however please label your reply's one Review and one Test so you Will be entered into the contest as well as get paid!

Please note Hostbright.net is not launched yet so the site has lots of mistakes, we are however accepting orders and hosting customers

Soon to be added
Voice servers
Game Servers
and more

How it works:

Reviews - For reviews we are looking for suggestions, Professional aspect, Is the site confusing, is the text clear, is everything easy to find and navigate so on and so on! Please add detail to your reviews and not just your support page is lacking detail - please offer what kind of detail if possible!! On 2-1-08 we will give away the packages at our launch! You will be pm'ed as well as it will be posted here!

Testers:
Below is the pay scale, We are paying you per mistake or suggestion you find, there's also a bonus scale. We want ever error to be fixed! Turn this into a Search Word Puzzle For Cash! On 2-10-2008 we will Post the amounts earned and get you Your Credit/ Gift Card! Host Bright will be offering E-Gift cards and actual plastic gift cards fully customized to its customers and thats how we are paying our testers! On 2-10 we will Ask all testers to either submit a email or submit a mailing address to recieve there gift cards at! These gift cards are useable for anything we sell, including hosting, domains, SSL's and more! Also If we get at least 10 Testers we will give away 3 Value Bronze plans to those testers as well (1 package per reviewer/tester - if you win 1 and your in the second contest your name will be removed)
Pay Scale:

Grammar/Spelling Mistakes - .25 each.
Broken Links - .50 each.
Missing text - .50
Plan Mistakes (Matrixs) . 50
Other Mistakes will be paid .25 and up

Bonus Scale-(once you reach that number you get that amount added to your per mistake pay)
5- $3.00
10-$7.50
15-$10.00
20 - $12.00
25+ $15.00 and 1 Free year of Shared Copper Hosting

ALSO TESTERS FOR ORDERING PROCESS!!

We also need testers/reviewers to help us out with the account areas, Domain purchases, SSL's, Different payment methods and more. If you are interested in performing these for us please PM me, email me [email protected] AIM - Flipmyspork or 1 of our support methods available at hostbright.net - You will be given test account numbers for CC's, paypal, so on and will simulate real transactions without money exchaning hands! You will be paid $2.50 per issue found, You will also be given 1 Free year Value bronze hosting and $10.00 - Limited number of people accepted and will be performed on a live basis with other testers on the following dates

02/01/08
at
1:00PM CST
4:00PM CST
8:00PM CST
11:00PM CST

We are looking for 1-4 people per time. The sessions should take 30 Minutes - 2 hours

Please Note If you recieve a hosting package on the bonus scale and/or payment testing you are still elgible for the contest packages.

Thanks for all of your Help!

Zach K.
Co-Owner
HostBright.net

(Please note that shipping is free on all gift cards. Gift Cards are currently in production and may not be available until approx. feb 15th. You will recieve account credit at the above times however! All hosting packages will be given away at the above dates as well, any questions may be posted here)