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Overall it's extremely nice. Some unfiltered random things that I thought:

+ So much text on the front page I didn't read any of it.

+ The favicon "fit into" the logo. Trivial, but pleasing.

+ The first thing I wanted to see after screenshots was the demo, but I only found that by scrolling to the bottom.

+ The demo seems to be on a slow machine or something because it's not very responsive and the UI graphics (rounded corner GIFs) loaded slowly (no keepalives?).

+ The quote "Your software kicks ass!" seems a little risque for your intended audience. It stood out to me at least.

+ "Docs" navigation option made me thing of Google Docs & Spreadsheets which through me off.

+ Navigation links are a bit non-standard and seem unimportant because of their size.




I finally have to accept that pg was right...I talk way too damned much, and everyone agrees. So the text is getting a serious pruning.

I'll make the demo more visible. The demo is, in fact, on a slow machine--it's a qemu instance on the server itself. I'm moving it to a much faster xen or EC2 this week sometime. It is now doing double duty as the Webmin demo server, so at any given time there are several people logged in. It's working pretty hard for such a wimpy system.

As for the quote being little risque, that's OK in my book. We're not the stodgy choice (that'd be cPanel), so the stodgy "nobody ever got fired for buying cPanel" folks won't buy what we're selling anyway. I think it's downright wonderful that a customer said it on a whim, so I couldn't help but take the opportunity to share it.

I've renamed Docs to Documentation.

I'll try bumping the nav links up a notch.

Thanks for the great tips staunch.




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