[thelist] Re: Site Critique requested (Westside)

Paul Peterson paul at woggz.com
Fri Sep 28 14:25:55 CDT 2001


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> From: "Linda Tamblyn" <ldt at look.ca>
> 
> Hi Evolters,
> 
> I am coordinating the completion of this website.
> I am looking for some feedback. I realize that it is only about 60%
> complete, so there are obvious missing pieces.
> The most obvious: no titles, and some of the links on the left hand
> navigation are not fully functioning.
> 
> I have some real concerns about the usability.
> It looks fine in IE5 - 98 and IE 5.5 - 00, but there seem to be problems
> in
> Netscape 4.7 - 98
> I have an older computer and it crashes on IE4 - 95, Ouch!
> So if some of you could test on other browsers, I would really appreciate
> it.
> 
> Plus what do you think about the colours? Do you find the white hyperlinks
> on the aqua hard to read?
> Does anyone know what language this is? I certainly notice the lack of CSS
> being used. Another concern.
> What fonts are you getting on your Macs? I have heard that most Mac's now
> have Arial?? but I doubt that you have Tahoma.
> 
> http://calgarywestside.pandell.com/
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Linda,

Overall I like the site. The colors really bring about a refreshing, natural
feeling, which is obviously good given the subject.

I viewed this on my Mac at work, using IE 5 and Netscape 4.0. Looked pretty
good on both. I do have Arial on my machine, but not Tahoma - I think that's
pretty standard with OS 9.

The first thing I noticed, and which became distracting rather quickly, was
the large Flash animation in the upper right corner. I think it's a nice
touch, just too big.

The aqua on the side navigation is a tad too bright for my liking (keep in
mind I'm on a Mac). Perhaps bring the color down a notch or choose a darker
color for the links?

Finally, I appreciate the liquidity (is that a word now?) of the site, but
some of the text looked a little ridiculous when I narrowed the window
considerably. Maybe add spacer GIFs or use some method to fix a minimum size
for those sections?

Paul






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