[thelist] Site Critique Please

[Jorah Lavin]

At 07:45 AM 7/4/00, John Scoot wrote:

>Would you please critique the following site www.buildingadvice.co.uk it's
>ourfirst serious commercial site and we would like to learn from our
>mistakes.

I didn't see any functional problems... Win95, 56k modem, looking at the 
site from the US.  All my comments are just personal opinion...

I'd love to see a little more "margin" space on the right side.  The text 
is running into the browser side on my screen.  Some of the pages have the 
text running right down to the very bottom... I'd like a little more 
whitespace down there.
I like the way the top of the page smoothly resizes to fit my browser 
window.  I like the little construction men who animate alongside the left 
menu, but was surprised when they didn't show up every time... might it be 
more clear if they actually _stayed_there_ pointing at the menu item for 
the current page I'm on?

On the other hand, (pun intended) I always feel like I'm breaking out in 
hives when I see the "shaking hands" image like the one you have on the 
splash page... and that tiny animation with the people sitting around the 
table got annoying really quickly.

>I know we will get flak for using Comic Sans throughout, but this
>was at our client's insistence.

Actually, I thought it worked with the overall theme of the cartoon 
construction workers.

>thanks in advance for your criticisms and comments.

I think it is a very smooth, unified look, focused on the task at hand.

I was a little mystified at the link to Fluke, though... why give me a link 
to a site I can't see unless I've got a password?

-Jorah