Hey All,

Its been a while since I have been on the forum, its growing nicely!!!

Just launched Version 2.0 of CompanyHotSeat.com.

The new site is fully Joomla Powered which is great. Recommend Joomla highly. Takes a while to customise but the CMS back end is fantastic. After a while you get sick of writing and debugging code!

The address is CompanyHotSeat.com - The Free Irish Business Directory

Be gentle on the reviews!

Regards

James

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ok ... my review ...

Its slightly ouch ... but I don't think it'd take that much to tidy it up ... some image padding / margins .. would do wonders ...

remove the joomla favicon as well .. I HATE the joomla favicon .. (not sorry for the caps )

I'd also recommend that you don't hotlink images in your css (sorry thats a complete no no)
that said maybe I'm missing something to do with the openid.net on the site ...

personally I really don't like Joomla these days ... after spending too much time f'ing around with it .. I found a lot of very basic things were missing from it ... but ah well (I've posted about that before and as was said there are some great plugins ... which I can't argue with)

companyhotseat@gmail ??? erm ... could I recommend google apps ? change you mx records if you're set on using gmail for it ...

Your logo / header image ... hmm... seeing that I would leave the site almost immediately ... head over to 99 designs .. and you could get something half way decent maybe for 50 - 100 quid ... if you're stuck for cash ...

Just a few thoughts on it .. take from them what you will ... I didn't delve any further into the site ... I'm on the beer ... second last day in galway .. and the missus just had her last day of work here

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A new template for starters the default joomla template just does not do it for me ,theres a lot of Free templates out on the web , or for a few bob you might pick up some more suitable.

The Joomla favicon looks amateurish

Does it matter if the software running the site is GPL or not?

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Fixed the favicon! Good tip thanks for that.. Took me while and a bit of messing around putting the file in different folders but finally got it.

U mean the standard GPL link at bottom. You think I should leave it or delete?

The front page seems fairly dense with text. Can you reduce / summaries some of it and then link to the full article/ explanation of it perhaps.

Also, I wound redo the text on your header logo 'company hotseat'. Just use a higher resolution image or anti-analise the fonts to remove the pixel look.

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