Gandi Bar - Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Comments

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 15:07:45 +0200

Great redesign. I came to the site, saw the change and within a minute had renewed my domain. Very intuitive compared to the old one. Thanks.

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - OKParrothead

OKParrothead — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:51:43 +0200

Kudos on the new site. Crisp, clean, look. Very Professional. Glad you could keep it "In the Family"

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - stephan

stephan — Fri, 26 May 2006 00:30:25 +0200

Update : launch of the new website definitely sometime next week. Stay tuned !

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - stephan

stephan — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:37:10 +0200

New website should be launched within the next two weeks now.

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - stephan

stephan — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:35:36 +0200

juan diego : Please send in your resume at my email adress, we are thinking about it atm.

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Jakob S

Jakob S — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:40:16 +0200

Oi, very very nice. To be honest, I had been looking around for another registrar with a more appealing admin interface. Looks like I'll have to look no further. Now, just get it out the door quickly, eh

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Morgan Aldridge

Morgan Aldridge — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:02:58 +0200

I like the redesign teaser very much. I'll be enthused to use it once it's live!

Keep up the excellent work!

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - wouter

wouter — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 20:49:35 +0200

It looks nice and simple, without banners or animated graphics. The layout is more consistent, I guess you've found a better template system and css make-up scheme. When the (current) English content gets a good check for spelling errors, this new design is a great improvement.

You might want to involve the community in some aspects of the site, such as translations or content feedback, so little mistakes get ironed out much faster than is the case now. Because of your openness, you have more customer goodwill which can put to good use in aspects that are not easily improved upon by a small team.

All in all, it looks very promising.

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Anon

Anon — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 16:19:13 +0200

What is the date of delivery of the new website?

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Steven

Steven — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:26:18 +0200

Vivek, the new version of the account area will only have one sign in that leads to an account overview page where you would be able to manage everything. It's going to be much more intuitive than the current system.

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - vivek

vivek — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:28:09 +0200

I just hope the new site won't make me login over and over as I move around. And searching for past actions (such as pending transfers, billing history, etc) should be easier than having to know the actual transaction numbers. Who knows those? Not I.

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - erik

erik — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 21:46:34 +0200

Oh! That's great news. I'm sure the new site will be wonderful, from what everyone has been saying so far. I did buy a couple domains last night with [gasp] another registrar, but I saved the better ones to register today in the hope that I would discover the Flash thing was a non-issue. I'm very glad to hear that it is!

[I'm a bit embarassed to be put in the same luddite camp as the fellow on the French version of this thread who wants to use NCSA Mosaic!]

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Tom

Tom — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:34:25 +0200

Nice.
If you do that, I'll never leave

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Steven

Steven — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:47:45 +0200

Hi all, just to clarify: there will be no Flash on the new Gandi site. The blog link was an animation we used internally to look through the pros and cons of the old website. Thanks for the feedback!

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Juan Diego

Juan Diego — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:23:39 +0200

Erik, you are right: it was a flash presentation, describing the pros and the cons of the old (current) website.

From what I saw in the presentation, I think you will be able to keep using console web browsers with the new Gandi design.

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - erik

erik — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:37:31 +0200

Woah there. I can't see anything on the new website because my browser [lynx, a text based browser] can not parse shockwave flash pages. And it can never be made to parse flash because flash is a proprietary format that only macromedia produced software can read. Any browser that macromedia doesn't want to support will never be able to use a flash-only website. I currently use Gandi for two of my domains, and I was on your site tonight because I was about to register four new domains, but now that I read that the website I've come to know and love is about to be replaced by something I can not use, I now have to start looking for a new registrar.

Hopefully it's just a flash intro page, so that you can put a 'no flash -click here' link on the front page which redirects to a useable html site. I'll delay my new registrations for at least a day while I wait
to hear if there is any more news on the website redesign.

Another reason to avoid 100% flash sites is that web search engines can not crawl past a flash opening page, so Gandi will disappear from search engines if that site posted above becomes the
root page on gandi.net.

-erik

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Juan Diego

Juan Diego — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:48:07 +0200

Very nice design! I can't wait to see it implemented.

By the way, are you interested in the translation/localization of this new Web into Spanish? Let me send you my resumé.

Best regards.

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:39:16 +0200

Sounds great! I didn't mean to disparage the guys who did the work last time.

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - marianne

marianne — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:49:15 +0200

Thank you for your comments. Your idea is quite interesting, though for our new website, we have a team of in-house translators that will assure our English site is free of the typos you have spotted in the existing one.
Nonetheless, the team that translated the current site did a pretty good job considering they were not native English-speakers. Still, as we said, change is on its way for Gandi! Just bear with us for a few more weeks and you'll see the quality of our new website.

Brand new logo, brand new site, but same motivation ! - Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:38:41 +0200

New site looks good. I know you have 2 languages to support. The current site has a several typos or sentences that are very odd in English. If it's not something then can be done easily in house maybe some incentives for the customer base to help would work.