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Old 25 May 2004, 01:14 PM   #16
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I'd get rid of the BIG ORANGE ARROW.

Actually, I'd get rid of all the orange color.

Why orange? Or dark orange? Or goldenrod? Whatever it is?

It's was OK as "trim" but I think you've got too much now.

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Old 25 May 2004, 07:23 PM   #17
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Maybe this is an issue with Safari then. Can another Mac user confirm this (Liz)?
The screen appears similar narrow and compressed on Safari on my PowerBook. Upon attempting to compare this with Internet Explorer (5.2.3, 5815.1) however, the page failed to correctly load with elements of the web page incorrectly placed and skewed.
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Old 26 May 2004, 12:18 AM   #18
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I'd get rid of the BIG ORANGE ARROW.

Actually, I'd get rid of all the orange color.

Why orange? Or dark orange? Or goldenrod? Whatever it is?
Isn't Orange the colour compliment to blue? Perhaps this was their idea. I second this suggestion actually. I prefer the blue & grey combination with maybe a single orange arrow for signup - to draw people's attention.

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The screen appears similar narrow and compressed on Safari on my PowerBook. Upon attempting to compare this with Internet Explorer (5.2.3, 5815.1) however, the page failed to correctly load with elements of the web page incorrectly placed and skewed.
Same here. The columns are very messed up in IE.
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Old 26 May 2004, 12:28 AM   #19
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Thanks for all your feedback so far!

We'll do some changes over the next few days, and surely incorporate some of your suggestions.

Trip: I don't have the graphics files available right now - I can send them as soon as I do. I'll be interested in seeing what you come up with!

Rich: Hmph, you never seemed to have had a problem with the orange arrow before! We're trying to spice up the service a little; perhaps we used too much orange. The other templates won't be that colorful anyway, as we definitely want to retain our clean, conservative, and professional look.

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Old 26 May 2004, 01:03 AM   #20
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Thanks for all your feedback so far!
Rich: Hmph, you never seemed to have had a problem with the orange arrow before!
True. But the old one was in the background covered by black text which made it stand out less.

The new one makes me think of all those construction signs around here (it's that time of year again ... we have two seasons, winter and construction).

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Old 26 May 2004, 07:12 AM   #21
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Thumbs up

Thanks a lot Geir. I'm looking forwarding receiving them. Just send to my Runbox account.

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Old 26 May 2004, 06:28 PM   #22
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Very good draft so as 's a' comments on it. The design looks much , much better than the actual runbox FP
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Old 27 May 2004, 06:22 PM   #23
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Yes I like the new design a lot.

Presumably this new design scheme would be used not just on the home page but across the website - including a new look to all our accounts.

Just two slight criticisms (other's will probably disagree, just my persoanl opinion).

1) I don't like the runbox logo in the top left hand corner - the white square doesn't look right on the the white background - I like to top right hand corner though - I like the new slogan "The Original Premium Email Service.

2) I don't like the testomonials on the homepage - I think they look corney and cheesey. Comments such as “It makes managing email so much easier.” - W.M, USA - would not entice me to purchase the product.

But with that said I like the new look a lot - well done

:-)

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Old 28 May 2004, 02:38 AM   #24
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I agree with BLuRReD, the mobile phone picture looks a little tacky.

Don't use the phrase ads-free, it doesn't make sense, nor is correct English. Just Ad-Free would do.

I like the orange, it shouldn't be a main colour, but it needs little to break up the blue. The roll-overs on the links in our accounts turn Orange.

The testimonials are cheesey, I agree. I've always thought it looks bad on Fastmail's index, don't follow suit!

I like the little 3-cube logos next to 'Price Plans' and 'Testimonials' though.

Aside from that, it looks brilliant.

And yeah, the page doesn't load in Mozilla correctly.
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Old 28 May 2004, 03:02 AM   #25
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I like the little 3-cube logos next to 'Price Plans' and 'Testimonials' though.
I'm not a big fan of these. But I would be if you could them to act as a horizontal scroll bar .
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Old 28 May 2004, 06:03 AM   #26
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Those with Mozilla troubles try going to the page then holding down shift and clicking reload. I think there is a cached stylesheet somewhere causing the problem and this should solve it.

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Old 28 May 2004, 12:54 PM   #27
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Heya Geir,

Thanks for the graphics, css, and html files. I am on my way to a new rendition for the login page. I think you're gonna love it!

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Old 28 May 2004, 02:25 PM   #28
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Those with Mozilla troubles try going to the page then holding down shift and clicking reload. I think there is a cached stylesheet somewhere causing the problem and this should solve it.

Neil
Shift + Reload didn't do it but clearing all the cache did. Thanks Neil!

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Old 28 May 2004, 05:00 PM   #29
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I'm not a big fan of these. But I would be if you could them to act as a horizontal scroll bar .
Good thought ! Or else scroll automaticlly as this as-provider does.
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Old 29 May 2004, 01:04 AM   #30
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My first reaction to the new front page was that it's hideous and unprofessional -- but since most other comments were positive, and somebody had mentioned that there were problems with Mozilla, I took a look at it in IE (Netscape is my browser of choice and I use IE only when absolutely necessary.)

Now that I see it the way it's meant to look, I like it! I hope that when you launch the new design, you will first have ensured that it displays properly in Netscape.
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