[thelist] Site Critique Request (WJ)

Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:56:15 -0500

Hi Dave,

Well, I owe a critique or two so here goes :)

Browsing at 640x480
IE 5
Win98

I really, really like the front page graphic, very
professional, nice colors, loaded pretty fast, and nice
mouseover effects.  I didn't like the banner about the new
look, the "furry" pattern looks kind of weird. It doesn't
match the other graphics in style or something. If I
scrolled down to cover the banner at the top, it looked alot
better.  I'd just get rid of it ;) Logo is great.

I'd also loose "This site best viewed at 800X600 resolution,
16 bit colour and using version 4 or--blah, blah" (even
though I have that on my own personal site which is in
frightful need of attention). I'd just make sure the page
degrades nicely, or do a browser version detection and serve
another page or site for older browsers if you are
concerned.

The "Jet To" box is cute :) Looks like the default colors
are used for the links, I'd change their colors to the logo
colors, dark blue and the teal. Same with the image map on
Destinations, it looks to bright beside the dark blue/purple
side frame (I'm a matchy-matchy sort o' gal obviously)

I'm also not really impressed with the plain text headers on
the pages such as "We Would Like To Hear From You!".  I
think I'd rework any page headers and make them graphics
that tie into the logo a bit better, they just kind of look
stuck there, but it could be the rez I'm surfing at at the
moment.

Nitpicky stuff, but stuff I would change if it were me.
Looks great otherwise!

Hope this helps,
Gina