[thelist] Site Review (please, please) www.coeville.com

[elkay]

Rachell,

I had to read that 'caps' thing a few times too. I think he meant screen
CAPtureS. He offered a link to his page that indeed shows his 'caps' in
various browser windows (IE, NN, etc.).

Am I correct aardvark?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rachell Coe" <rachell at coeville.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Site Review (please, please) www.coeville.com


> Thank you aardvark for taking the time to go over my site.  I am currently
> taking care of many of your suggestions, such as the differences in the
> anchor colors, formatting my resources better, and so forth.  I believe I
> will also add a 'Usability' heading to my design resources page.
>
> I didn't understand all of your comments. For instance, one of them says
> that the 'TO' links look bad -- which links are these and on which
> page?  (I would love to make them better if I knew which ones you were
> talking about.)  Also, you mention that all of my caps are from IE/win --
> the main font for the headings is Agaramond. Coming from Adobe, I didn't
> think that it would make one of their main fonts Win exclusive.  What
serif
> font does look good in both Win and Mac?  Believe me, I am not trying to
> cut out my MAC viewers, but because I only have a PC it is difficult for
me
> to troubleshoot for them.
>
> I also wanted to address several of your comments:
> 1. I realize that I have a lot of images, but I have made sure to keep
them
> simple and to optimize them so that most of my pages weigh in at under
35k.
> 2. Because I used a background image in the far right table cell of my
> internal pages, the image won't tile until over 1300 pixels.
> 3. I added resource links to my site because I am constantly being asked
> for design, search engine, and graphic links from the many lists I'm on as
> well as from my clients -- it just seemed easier to put them on my web
site
> so that everyone can use them.
> 4. Also, I wouldn't consider links to evolt.org, monkeyjunkies, and so
> forth a poor choice of links that make you want to look for what I'm not
> listing.  Just take the resources for what they are -- and if you have
> better ones, then why don't you share them?  I'm always looking for better
> resources.
> 5. As to thinking that I don't know all there is to know ... who does?  It
> is common knowledge that there is so much information on the web that
> nobody can "know all there is to know".  If someone thinks they do, then
> they are deluding themselves.
> 6. I am confident in the links that I have selected, and if I have missed
> some good ones, then please let me know so that I can update my
information.
> 7. I do use Dreamweaver for much of my coding only because I don't have
> time to hand code all of my pages.  However, most of my pages are a mix of
> WSYSIWYG and hand coding -- how else could I have achieved the liquidity
of
> my site in most browser and computer platforms without getting my hands
> dirty with the coding?
> 8. I don't have my outside links open new windows because with my sheer
> volume of outside links, a viewer could have multiple new windows open up
> before they know it.  According to Jacob Nielson (considered an authority
> on usability) this is not a good idea, and I would have to agree.
>
> Again, I want to let you know how much I appreciate many of your helpful
> comments, and that I will use them to make a better site.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Rachell Coe
> <http://www.coeville.com/>www.coeville.com
> <mailto:rachell at coeville.com>Rachell at coeville.com
> (541) 434-8007
>
>
>
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