Orange Pips

[splatthefly]

A company called orangepips.com has built us a tremendous site. It is highly complex and taken 2 years of tweaking to complete. They have never moaned about my demands, always finished ahead of schedule and on budget.

They are brilliant.:jumpy:

[Terminator1138]

Not really a cool site listing but a mere ad and as such belongs in the appropriate area.

Hmmm, two years to complete a site, way too long for even a complex site. I'm guessing you mean your home page. Of course they cannot moan, they are contacted to do a site. Same goes for budget and scheduling. If they did, you could take your business elsewhere. I looked at that site, very basic and they don't show a lot of client sites designed by them. They don't showcase their skills either. A lot of content missing it seems for a business site of sorts compared to others.

They overcharge on somethings also like hosting, and domain names.
They only thing that looks like they can do is graphic design which is a plus. Also I see every site they do is copyrighted in the footer by them...why? Its your site and you commissioned to have it done.

I'm guessing this was your first site if you claim they are brilliant. Why do you say they are. Is there proof in your claims what would make me want to choose them?

[PsychoticDude85]

I can't see too much to make me think of hiring them personally. Basic layout, only one main colour used throughout, mediocre markup coding and I can't even be sure there is a backend, but I have to assume not since you don't seem to be using one of the usual server-side code file extensions (.php, .phtml, .asp, .aspx etc).

$20/15 for a domain... why? GoDaddy or NameCheap blow that price out of the water and are better established in the business. And what do the hosting packages provide? It's mentioned that web design clients get some, but nowhere is it stated what the hosting server supports etc. Very unclear.

The designs aren't bad, but they don't even compete with a lot of designers out there yet, if they keep practising they might make something of themselves, but at the moment I don't think that this company is ready to head into the deep end.