[thelist] Critique request - http://www.sakusuurhall.ee/

[aardvark]

> From: "Lauri Vain" <optima at hot.ee>
> 
> Could you please check the site http://www.sakusuurhall.ee/? The site is not
> designed by me, I have to fix some backend coding problems. I also have to make
> sure that the site looks great in all browsers. I would highly appreciate any
> suggestions to fix cross-browser problems on this site. I found some problems
> but I'm not an expert in this issue.
> Please give some basic information about your platform and browser.

NN4.08/IE5.0/win98.33.6

first off, it takes forever to load... in NN it took almost a minute to 
load enough images to render the page... at least IE could render 
before it all download, but i still had to sit there... the images weigh 
in at 196k (not counting rollovers), which is about 172k fatter than 
what i target for a page...

i'm sure you know it doesn't fit in a 640 window...

'alt' attributes would be nice...

i don't much dig that mouse/hand cursor on the animation on the 
front page... thought i misplaced my mouse for a moment...

the buttons on the left don't tell me what section i'm currently in...

http://www.interest.ee/suurhall/ehitus/ -- why on earth are the 
photos 400x300, but scaled via HTML to 100x75?  IE crapped out 
after only downloading 453k... you *have* to fix that...

if i submit a blank form from 
http://www.interest.ee/suurhall/uudised/uudis_naita.php3?id=5, the 
page won't render in NN... but that's because the tables are not 
properly closed, so that error message needs to be fixed...

http://www.sakusuurhall.ee/kysitlus.html -- why a mailto?  it 
doesn't redraw the page after submit, it gives a nasty-sounding 
warning, and it's generally unreliable...