Rate my startup: Simplton

It's pretty enough in its own way, but do you know what my first reaction was? I first viewed your site in Chrome, then loaded it up in Firefox, and finally IE because I was convinced that something wasn't rendering correctly.<p>Two things stand out in particular: first, my laptop's resolution is 1600x900 and I have to scroll down to see the links on the left; secondly, that's a HUGE amount of empty space on the right hand side, and it looks like it could accommodate the "What is Simplton" text quite nicely.<p>Honestly, I'd advise doing what I do - although I'm not terribly successful, so perhaps you should disregard this advice ;-) Anyway, go to ThemeForest, find a decent sales page theme, and another one for your user area. It'll cost you $30-40, and whilst some will object to what are pretty obviously cookie-cutter themes, you'll find out pretty quickly if people will pay for it.<p>I was in the same place as you a year ago, with a tool whose design was 100 times worse than yours is, and I was signing up 1 trial account per day. Many months later I bought a design for $15 and an admin theme for $20, and that increased free trials to 20 a day!<p>Good luck! :)

On <a href="http://simplton.com/philosophy" rel="nofollow">http://simplton.com/philosophy</a> I would make the bullet points the only content on the page. Click them and it expands to show your explanation.<p>For something that focuses on simplicity, you sure have a lot of words. If I were you, I'd look to cut 75% of your verbiage.<p>I don't understand what the companies represent on <a href="http://simplton.com/pricing" rel="nofollow">http://simplton.com/pricing</a>. Is that companies that use your service? Am I buying real estate in this imaginary town? I think you're overusing your town metaphor.

I like the "small town bug tracker" marketing on the home page, ... not sure if the image depicts a small town tho.

clickable <a href="http://simplton.com" rel="nofollow">http://simplton.com</a>

About design, I have only 1 thing to say.<p>Use gradients or don't use gradients, PICK ONE. If you use gradients, then all (or most of) your elements need gradients. I recommend removing gradients, as sometimes gradients are hard to make work.