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I just noticed this forum or I would have posted this when I launched the
"new" site.

Our site has been live for some time now, but I`m always open to input from
anyone.

http://www.servermotion.com

Thanks!

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Like your site.  Not too distracting, and very easy to navigate.

Good luck!

Your opening paragraph:
ServerMotion is proud to offer colocation services at 55 Marietta St in Atlanta, GA. Our redudant network is located in a carrier-nertral tier 1 facility with over 20 fiber service providers. Direct fiber links can be run for customers who wish to provide their own bandwidth via "meet me" to anywhere in the building, or across the street to 56 Marietta St, one of the countries largest carrier hotels. Bandwidth can also be provided by ServerMotion.

Is that supposed to be "carrier-neutral?"

Why so much play on "56 Marietta St."? Should that matter to me? I`m relatively versed in IT and can`t figure out why I should care? If it`s a unique jargon-term within the server industry, I`d suggest saying so before the paragraph.

The site read well in FireFox, but my own bugaboo is too-small typeface. I had to increase the size to read it well. Personal choice, as I said, but I suspect a fair number of online people have the same issue from what I`ve seen of "Web Site Pet Peeves."

I`d like to see a clear definition of "colocation," since you`re using it as a main heading. Even for folks well-versed in hosting services, it helps to make sure they`re using the same definition. For those not so well-versed, what would it hurt to spell-out the term?

It`s like the courtesy (and somewhat formal rule in grammar) of at least providing either the acronym or the spellout one time (in parentheses) at the first usage in an article. :-) Not necessary, but a nice thought.

On second thought, the link you provided was to your Colocation page, not the home page. So my first introduction was to a sub-page. I looked at the home page and it keeps changing! What the hell? I click a tab, go back to home and it`s all different!

I saw this on someone else`s site, and sure hope it isn`t a new trend in Web design! This is like going to a mall, seeing a shop I`d like to explore later, noting what it looks like. Then tomorrow, come back and try to find it and it`s .....gone! Bad idea.

:-)

Craig:

Thanks so much for your input! This is the kind of feedback I like to get,
helps me build a better site. I`m going to think over some of your input and
make some changes, I`ll post back when I make them and have you look at it
again if you don`t care.

Oh, and yes, the front page has a top peice of content that rotates between
3 sets of content. :)

-Chris

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I`ve been trying to figure out why anyone would want to confuse the customer with rotating content. As I said, I`ve now seen it twice, and it`s confounding. The only reason I can think of is that it`s there to make it appear as if there`s constantly updating content for the search engines?

If that`s the case, bag it! Your primary interest is customers...not search engines. To have the main site constantly change, rotate, or be different is the same as going to a store to buy your favorite thing and it`s been moved. Every day, for no reason, the managers change all the aisles, all the displays, and move everything to some other place in the store.

Personally, I think it`s a dumb idea. Shopping is supposed to make it easier for the customer...not more difficult, and not a scavenger hunt. :-)

Suppose I email my boss, who`s looking for a new hosting system. I send a cover, "Here`s a possible site. Note on their front page they have a fact that`s critical to our decision." Then the boss reads it and on the front page it says nothing of the sort! How does that make ME look? Like an idiot! And there goes not only the business from my company, but I`ll never take that sort of chance again with your site, to any other possible references.