%83^!!%5 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 This is the second time we've been in business and both times we have used WHMCS. More details can be seen at http://www.yurihosting.com/blog/ Our WHMCS installation is at http://www.yurihosting.com/clients/ Now, I know that there are far more custom things you can do to theme WHMCS but what I did do took a lot of work to get right. I think all in all it looks great. We started the website by using a free CSS template and then spent more than a month modifying it and changing it. It still bares a basic resemblance to the template but overall it is now unique for the most part. What do you think? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos5 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 How come there is no "powered by WHCMS complete solution" at the bottem of your pages? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DataHosts Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 How come there is no "powered by WHCMS complete solution" at the bottem of your pages? He purchased unbranded version 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 Yes, as DataHosts said, we purchased the $18/month (or thereabouts) non-branded version. We felt that WHMCS is recognized enough that most people will realize what software we are using and we tell customers personally to use WHMCS as much as possible. However, we felt that having the branding text would take away from the look of the site. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos5 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 Ah, neat. I forgot about the unbranded version. Maybe when I start making more money I can do that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 What did you think of our site? We've seen a lot of visitors from this post but no one has left feedback (yet). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I'd centre the main body of the site. Where it's left-aligned, and the login area is right-aligned, it makes the overall layout look skewed. There's alot of purple visible. By moving the main content into the centre, I'd be more drawn to that than the purple. Also, you might want to add some space between the hosting packages, and the WHMCS section. Lack of space between them makes it look cramped. Nice astronomical theme to your packages, btw 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Thanks for the feedback. What resolution are you running? On my system (1280x800) the main content portion of the site is centered with the sidebar on the left with little purple around it. The only significant purple on my screen is about 2 inches worth on the right. I have also tested on 1024x768 and a few other resolutions. I am not entirely skilled at web development (i'm mainly a desktop software developer) so do you have any specific suggestions on how to make it more consistent between resolutions? As far as the "login area is right-aligned" if you are talking about the toolbar at the very top, then that is meant to be. Once again, on my resolution (1280x800 & 1024x768), this appears on the right of the screen but it also overlaps the content area by about 50% (IE, covers about 30-40% of the screen in total) and doesn't look bad at all. What do you mean by: Also, you might want to add some space between the hosting packages, and the WHMCS section. Lack of space between them makes it look cramped. Are you talking about the webhosting.php and reseller.php page where it lists features? If so, I realize it is pretty cramped there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 I understood the login toolbar was meant to be there My resolution is 1366x768. Widescreen. To solve the differences in resolutions, I use maths alot. But I also code in ActionScript 2, as opposed to HTML. Visit my site and play with the browser window's height and width to get an idea. I'll dig out an old code example of mine... here you go: <div style="width:800px;position:relative; margin:0 auto;text-align:left;">Your Content</div> I used this to auto-align flash objects to the centre of the browser window before I learned how to dynamically reposition full-browser flash content. Change the width value to your main content's total width - left column included. I'd add this code after your login toolbar code. About the cramped-looking area, I mean on your index page. The spacing between your hosting packages and the content immediately below. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 I have added the extra spacing to index.php. how does it look? I tried but was unable to get both the sidebar and content area centered together. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Looks the same This part: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Yeah... I moved the two columns down by 50 px. I added a considerable amount of whitespace. Would you like more space? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted November 23, 2009 Share Posted November 23, 2009 Excuse me if I'm being confusing. I mean the table the lower content is sat in. The table's dotted border is right up against your hosting packages. The text itself is placed just fine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 oh! That was by design. I can change it if you think it would look better. (or attempt to change it, that is). I'll be honest. my programming knowledge is mostly in desktop/mobile software and PHP backend stuff (that is, stuff that doesn't require a good GUI). As such, I started this site working from a base free CSS template and modifying it slowly one thing at a time using PHP and learning CSS along the way by trial and error. In time, it kinda just came together as it is now. As such, I'm not 100% sure exactly how every element on the page works and what placed it where it is at (as it was placed there slowly over time and through trial and error). This is why I still haven't managed to center the content as you requested and I am not sure I would be able to change the index page either but I think I could. I'll try it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Check out the site now. Is that too much spacing? should I reduce it to 25 px (half what it is now?) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 I'd try 25px, sure. And it's ultimately your design. I'm only making suggestions, not requests. That's what feedback's for 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 Thanks for your feedback. i'll occasionally keep trying to center the site content. maybe one day it'll work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 I finally managed to get it to center as expected. Can you check it out again and tell me what you think? I also made some changes to webhosting.php and reseller.php to indicate our payment types more clearly 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 that's the one. good job! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 26, 2009 Author Share Posted November 26, 2009 Awesome! I've written a new blog post if you'd like to read it. Writing part 2 next week. Thank you so much for helping me with your suggestions. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%83^!!%5 Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 Fixing to write part 2 of my blog. I just finished a great search feature on the top of the site. Check it out! Supports full text searching of entire site (community forums, whmcs knowledgebase, website, blog, etc...) Supports boolean searching (IE, "yuri +password") Supports search categorization 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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