I would suggest the tag at the very bottom "Build a beautiful marketing site for your startup in minutes." is your biggest selling point, and so perhaps it belongs 'above the fold' so to speak (at the top).
I would also like to see the 'beautiful' sites, and not watch a video or look at discrete elements like buttons.
I'm not a customer, so don't put a ton of weight into those comments, but it's what immediately occurred to me when I went to look.
* Assuming that dog food is consumed, do you offer landing pages without the 'scroll instead of load pages' behavior that's become [arguably] too common lately?
* I understand the trend towards 'flat design', but to my inexpert eye there should be some indication that I can interact with an element - the buttons on the page and demo just look like colorful text blocks.
Edit: moved this down, it's no longer relevant on second glance:
I think the idea is good, and there's a need for such a service. There's just some that isn't clear.
* What do I get by subscribing - unlimited sites? The rights to keep using the design I configured?
* What if I just want one-and-done?
EDIT: sorry, the video showed subscription in the walk-through, but this isn't something on the actual 'get modulz' page.
I betatested this. Even back then it was pretty solid. As you can tell by the landing page (eat your own dog food etc) it's drop dead gorgeous. It's easy to work with and contained a lot of modules. Took me about 30 minutes to put together a landing page.
This is ideal for testing out those early ideas, or simply when you want to move ahead with a product without having to spend money or time on a landing page yet.
Besides the improved visual design, the key difference with Modulz is that it's modular. Most themes come as full pages. If they don't suit, sometimes it can be hard to tailor them to your needs. There are also up to 17 different sections with Modulz, that's more than most thems ship with.
We've decided to drop the prices based on feedback. Thew new prices are $49 and $79. Everyone who has purchased Modulz already will be refunded the difference.
Beautiful design, and with the pricing change it is a great buy. One quick note -- when you click the eye buttons to see details, the old prices still show up.
I like the idea very much and the fact it's self-hosted as well. Yeah, you could go with launchrock of a standard Bootstrap-carrousel page or a Wordpress template, but this is even simpler to deploy and allows for easy tweaking. Great for launch- and product pages and even small websites without a database and stuff. Did notice the button to 'video' doesn't work in Safari (6.05). Works fine in Chrome.
I'm sorry but the point still stands: excellent idea but the price gap is way too big with themeforest themes compared to the benefits. 50 bucks is the max I would set aside for this, and I consider it to be a lot.
I donno, Modulz looks well designed and built. I like the professional feel it provides. Hiring designer to build something similar would cost a lot more than 99 bucks. It's not that much to spend for someone who's serious about their startup and want something other than standard themeforst/bootstrap. (That is until everybody starts using this, I suppose by then there might be a lot more versions/tweaks).
There is currently no internal way to import your own color scheme. You can always override the CSS with your own colors.
We have lots of extra features planned for the future including extra color schemes, custom color schemes, extra Modulz, web fonts, more customization options etc.
If lots of people start using it, we will add new customization options very soon.
It wouldn't take much work to override the base styles with your own colors. Shoot me an email at colm@modulz.co and I'll walk you through how to do it.
Ok so it looks great in Chrome, but I fired it up in IE 10 and the first 2 pages "look" blank, if you didn't know to scroll down you'd think the page was blank.
A template to be used for a landing page should be able to properly render in browsers. Just sayin...
A landing page is a marketing site. When startups want to launch their products, they build marketing sites to help advertise. Modulz is a collection of HTML website sections that you can customize and piece together to build your marketing site.
What does a landing page have to
do with the Web site? Is
the landing page
one of the pages at the site
with the domain name of the site?
Is the hosting the same as for
the site?
Does the landing page first exist
before the site does,
at the same time the site does,
or only after the site does?
Why isn't a landing page
just one more page I could
have at my site with the
same domain name of my site?
Does the landing page have links
to the other pages of the site?
In what sense is the landing page
"marketing", keywords for
search engines or search engine
optimization (SEO) or something else?
I understand the Web site I'm building
but not landing pages --
trying to learn. I might need
a landing page.
So, if one reason someone
might use my site is to learn
about cooking, then maybe
I will have a landing page
intended just to attract
(via search engines and keywords
about cooking) users interested
in cooking and from that landing
page have a link to my site? In this
case the landing page for cooking
doesn't really tell the user much
about cooking but just directs them
to my site where they can learn more
about cooking?
And if my site is also of interest
to people interested in classical
music, then I might have a
landing page just for
users with that interest?
Is that the idea?
If so, then such a landing page
might have difficulty doing well
in page rank?
The term 'landing page' is overloaded with two different meanings.
Meaning 1, the 'startup community' angle and the one being used for this product, is effectively a "one page website that sells a product". This can be a simple test (put a page up for a product that doesn't exist and see if it converts well), a page about a mobile app, or simply a page to promote a company with no released or conventional products yet. Often this'd be the only page on the site, and the root page at that domain.
Examples: anything from LaunchRock, Hipster's launch.
These landing pages often grow beyond their initial "onepager" design and become gateways into the product itself, blurring with the second interpretation of the term:
The 'marketing community' angle for landing pages is as you describe above. A page that's effectively targeted at an audience to convert them to a sale, sign-up, etc. This can be anything from a page that's keyword optimised for a specific feature-slice of a product, to a splash page that's used in certain campaigns, and the general point is to replace the "first contact" experience with the site with one that's more tailored to the specific user. (So that's why they're used in marketing, when the campaigns have some 'specific user' connotation.)
It's more of a very simple website that you are going to use before you have your actual website built, to gauge interest from potential users.
Usually a 'landing page' consists of a big title / catchphrase, a few points of information about your upcoming product, and a box where you can fill in your email address if you want to subscribe to the mailing list to have more info later. Kind of like what http://launchrock.co/, but less minimalistic I guess.
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll upload one soon. For now, if you open dev tools on the Modulz site, go to the html element and change the "phlat" class to "glossy". Then you'll see the skeuo buttons.
I would also like to see the 'beautiful' sites, and not watch a video or look at discrete elements like buttons.
I'm not a customer, so don't put a ton of weight into those comments, but it's what immediately occurred to me when I went to look.