Hello all I would like to share my personal experience I have had with Payton Designs over the course of a new design.

First of all when we requested a new designer and I received tons of PMs and responses of designs wanting the job. Everyones work was nice, but Payton Designs standed out to me the most. Not only have I read other reviews for him but I also saw his work and let me tell you its amazing.

Ok, so it started on AIM which is good because you can go into more depth with your conversation on what you would want for your design. I agreed to go with him. 5 minutes later I received an email with 25 questions asking me different questions about how I would like the design to turn out. The questions are straight forward and short so that's good.

I got the mockup of the design within 2 days I believe. I loved the design so much we didn't even have to do any revisions, it was that perfect and the way I wanted it to be. He kept in contact with me every step of the short / fast process via AIM. My design was finished and coded along with WHMCS all within a week. Once it was coded I just need a few modifications done and they were done within minutes.

Overall I am very happy I went with Payton Designs and I have future plans to hire him again for another company or two. I would recommend him to anyone that is looking for a nice design or WHMCS integration.

If anyone would like to see the work Payton Designs has done for me you can contact me and I would be more than happy to show you his great work.



Thanks for reading!

It was a pleasure working with you! I couldn't be any more happy with how your design turned out. Best of luck to you and your company!

If anyone would like to see the work Payton Designs has done for me you can contact me and I would be more than happy to show you his great work.

Go ahead :)

Post it up! And a very nice review I will add.

Ok, well as requested you can view the design on my site www.inviohosting.com

(if there are any validation errors its from me, everything was validated when I received it ;) )

Ok, well as requested you can view the design on my site www.inviohosting.com

(if there are any validation errors its from me, everything was validated when I received it ;) )

Great looking site, well done!

Just so you know, your navigation is displaying a bit incorrectly via Safari and should be fairly easy to fix by editing some padding and margin styles.

Just so you know, your navigation is displaying a bit incorrectly via Safari and should be fairly easy to fix by editing some padding and margin styles.

Eh, I hate macs and how they render Tahoma. Thanks for the catch Steve I'll get this fixed up for my client.

Eh, I hate macs and how they render Tahoma. Thanks for the catch Steve I'll get this fixed up for my client.No problem... The <li> tags have a right margin of 44px and should be pretty easy to fix, but then again, I'm not sure how it currently displays in browsers like IE or FireFox.

No problem... The <li> tags have a right margin of 44px and should be pretty easy to fix, but then again, I'm not sure how it currently displays in browsers like IE or FireFox.

It displays perfectly in IE and FF with Windows7, I just need to adjust the padding and center it or change the font type to suit mac users.

or change the font type to suit mac users.

FF + Ubuntu has the navigation off -- no Tahoma font on Linux...

Otherwise looking great... And a good review :agree:

FF + Ubuntu has the navigation off -- no Tahoma font on Linux...

I'll have to go through and check these things out. I can also see the slide show is off.

If there was only one browser life would be much easier :) So much for valid xHTML Strict...

I can also see the slide show is off.

I think that is only due to the navigation font pushing it off... if the font was plain "sans, sans-serif" the slide would be back in place.

Otherwise looking good :agree:

I think that is only due to the navigation font pushing it off... if the font was plain "sans, sans-serif" the slide would be back in place.

Otherwise looking good :agree:

Thanks for your input, much appreciated! I will get on this.

Great design keep up the good work Payton.

Great design keep up the good work Payton.

x2, everything looks great!

Thanks guys for the feed back on the errors im sure Payton will help me out with this :)

I wonder if you pay more than I did to Payton Designs. I like your site design BTW.

Talented designers you got there.

More excellant work from Payton :)

Gr8 Design Payton

Looks outstanding!

How long does it take to dish a design like that out? :confused:

Woahh! That's a sexy design you got there. ;)
Good job Payton!

Not sure if this is help or hindrance, but here goes anyway:

As someone else has suggested - the slideshow is only off because the nav is dropping a line - so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

I've attached some screenshots from Chrome and Firefox on a Linux distro. As far as I know Tahoma is windows-specific, and while i'm not sure about OS X, I can confirm that it doesn't exist on Linux. The problem is that Tahoma is quite a small and compact letter-set - and you can't rely on default system fonts (serifs or sans-serif) being as compact. Even declaring fall-back font families is never going to completely sort this - with the sheer amount of Linux distros, OS X versions, windows versions, BSD-based systems etc. when do you stop declaring fonts to ensure you've included 1 valid one for each system?

If you look at the attached Chrome screenshot you'll see that the menu isn't dropping a line, but it is in FF. This is because you haven't declared alternative font-families for the nav bar - so in chrome (where the default font is the system-default serifs font) it's falling back to the default font which is also quite compact. In FF, however, a different default font is set (another serifs font) - which is a much broader letter-set.

The only real way to fully sort it is to make your menu more fluid. You'd need to change quite a few elements. The ul selector can have a 'text-align: center' property. This, of course, means you can't float the li elements - but you can leave them as 'display: inline' so they center automatically. you can then float the 'a' elements within them (once floated, the 'a' elements are automatically block-level elements - so you can add your padding etc. to them), e.g.:

#mainnav ul li a{
float: left;
padding: 0 20px 0 20px;}

Of course, this isn't an 'easy' fix and will require some rearranging of the menu as each solution on its own would cause its own problems. I'm also not exactly sure how it effects the drop-down menus - I've only had a look at the menu's top level.

Again, hope this is of some help to you. And my compliments on the design - it really does look fantastic - very fresh - very easy to navigate; intuitive.

EDIT: Sorry, editing because i think I over-complicated what I was trying to say:

You div/ul or the items within it need to be given room to breath. The list items DON'T have a fixed with, but you're positioning them and applying paddings/margins to them as if they had; Hopefully that's a bit more concise.

I'd also just like to repeat that I'm in no way putting down your design - it really does look fantastic! And, to be fair: it will most likely render correctly for a MASSIVE majority of web-users. If you do decide to make changes and need new screenshots, please don't hesitate to ask.

FF + Ubuntu has the navigation off -- no Tahoma font on Linux...

I see the same problem in Seamonkey / Linux. Your banner is way far to the right.