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Happy NameCheap customer with 35+ domains here. This is the worst redesign I've seen in a long time but has a really well redesigned logo. Sorry. Looks like th
by ChrisNorstrom 13y ago
Happy NameCheap customer with 35+ domains here.
This is the worst redesign I've seen in a long time but has a really well redesigned logo. Sorry. Looks like they're trying to fit their content in one of those Generic Fad Layout Templates you find on ThemeForest. The LOGO is awesome though.
● Registering a domain is now harder. Before I could select a dropdown menu and see all the TLD options. Now I can't.
● Did you know that NameCheap sells .es domains? Guess how many screens you have to click through to find that out.
● Did you know NameCheap .coms are only $10 while other sites sell them for $14. Because this design doesn't tell you anything.
● I have to scroll so much to get so little. White space is good in moderation but this is just overdone. There's so little content and so much white space and meaningless grey elements and slideshows and giant icons that it makes the site look sterile.
● There's a slideshow with only 2 slides, one of them talking about Web Hosting (to sell web hosting plans), the other about Security (to sell ssl certificates). No other data. No other info. How many people do you think are going to click the second slide and find out that NameCheap sells really cheap ssl certificates.
● Lots of garbage information is taking up space.
● Less functional than the previous design.
● Some of the worst copywrite I've seen. "The internet needs people" and "Getting your site online is easier than you think."
● It tries to advertise NameCheap (poorly) and what it does (poorly) rather than letting me do it. Look, you guys won, I'm already ON your site. Stop selling your "image" to me and start selling your products and services.
Hopefully when their sales drop they'll revert to the previous layout and work off of that.
- emocakes 13y agoI kinda sorta agree, at default zoom level, everything is way way way oversized, the logo rocks though.
- goldenkey 13y agoAs a customer with over 100 domains, the new redesign is quite the eyesore. My main reason for choosing Namecheap was because it was technically designed, minimalistic, and had good prices. The new design says flat hipsterism with a splash of web 2.0 fruityness. It's not in the spirit of Namecheap. Something tells me that this design came from an external source. Why change for changesake? Eek.
- hdra 13y agoHow is the old website minimalistic? While I do agree the new design is confusing and put too much in form over function, the old website is way too cluttered IMO.
- joelrunyon 13y agoOver 100+ domains. Took me a bit to figure out where to login. Once I did the backend is completely the same :-/. That's not terrible, but it looks incredibly awkward next to the new design. By "rebrand" I thought they were changing name, etc - but it seems like the whole thing is less clear.