Re:Virtualmin (a YC company) has a new website, feedback wanted
by SwellJoe on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @01:32AM
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Hey comatose,
Thanks for the pointers. All good advice, and I agree with most of it.
I won't comment on the too much text any further, since all YC newsies agree. I will cut text with reckless abandon.
I've rejiggered the "four ways" paragraph to put what those ways are in the first sentence.
I agree about more color...being weak on design limits my capacity to actually do so without making it look like angry fruit salad. I've forced myself to use a very limited palette of carefully selected colors to avoid that problem. But I'll see about getting some more accent colors in their. I do plan to add screenshots to the About/Find out more page.
As for the "new Virtualmin.com" part, I think we probably do need it for another few weeks. We had 4000+ registered users, and 500+ paying customers, on the old site, and I had to issue them new usernames and passwords (derived from the old...but the new policies prevent the old from working as they were). So, even though I sent them all email about the change, not everyone got that email, and might need some guidance on getting logged in with the new details. It will go away soon, though, to be replaced by a "news" section, probably.
Thanks for the pointers. All good advice, and I agree with most of it.
I won't comment on the too much text any further, since all YC newsies agree. I will cut text with reckless abandon.
I've rejiggered the "four ways" paragraph to put what those ways are in the first sentence.
I agree about more color...being weak on design limits my capacity to actually do so without making it look like angry fruit salad. I've forced myself to use a very limited palette of carefully selected colors to avoid that problem. But I'll see about getting some more accent colors in their. I do plan to add screenshots to the About/Find out more page.
As for the "new Virtualmin.com" part, I think we probably do need it for another few weeks. We had 4000+ registered users, and 500+ paying customers, on the old site, and I had to issue them new usernames and passwords (derived from the old...but the new policies prevent the old from working as they were). So, even though I sent them all email about the change, not everyone got that email, and might need some guidance on getting logged in with the new details. It will go away soon, though, to be replaced by a "news" section, probably.