[thelist] Site Review Please

[aardvark]

> From: "Archetype Design" <alex at archetypedesign.co.uk>
>
> is live but has not been launched yet, meta tags, description, content
> etc are still to be completed. The site is targeted at a specific
> audience of health care professionals, Doctors,  Health Centre
> Managers etc. Thanks in anticipation.
> 
> http://www.designedtoinvolve.org.uk

so, you know who your audience is... what can you tell me about 
their browsing habits?  the technologies they use to surf?  those 
are key elements of knowing your audience...

splash page:

- are you telling me that i can change the text in my browser for a 
reason?  is that a hint?

- the button to get in, with its pseudo-3D, doesn't quite fit... and the 
'alt' is a little wordy... you alread say 'enter' below it, so you might 
even be able to get away with alt=""...

interior:

- hey !  more of those buttons... now here the 'alt's are somewhat 
useful, although it may look silly to see the word repeated in Lynx...

- your graphic bullets have an odd 'alt' as well...

- doesn't quite fit in my 640x480... width of 620 is 20px above what 
works for me...

- the site is quite table heavy... 

- remember that you told people how to resize text... that means 
they can also resize your nav...

- on home.htm, "glossary" link doesn't work...

- your headers are the same color as your links...

- the big 'to top' arrow link is a bit odd, but it matches your 
buttons...

- "About D2I" makes less sense to me than "About DTI"...

- on 'about', the colors are all over the place - mostly in the goup 
members... i thought it was 3 distinct columns because of the 
spacing... the giveaway was "a rep ....... from ...... foo"

- why does it take so long to load these fricking pages?  what up 
with yer server?  i'm thinking it's your tables...

- the 'menu' on resource:orgs is all blue and times... not planned?

sorry, this is taking too long and i gotta get back to work...