[thelist] Site Check, & help needed.

[A. Erickson]

First of all, I really liked your Flash animation. Some might say it's too
simple or something but I think it's adorable.

In the top right of your Flash animation frame you have a broken image.

I wasn't quite sure where to click when I got to the site... perhaps you
should consider having the Flash movie standalone and then automatically
take you into the site after a time?

Now, I'm here: http://www.designtotus.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi and
again the top right of the frame is broken.

I would have that top right animated .gif only cycle maybe three times. It's
distracting.

I don't speak French so I'm not sure how this site is working
informationally. I would say that the paragraph of yellow text on the lower
portion of the page is a little hard on the eyes. If it wasn't a graphic
(Flash) it would probably be a bit softer on the eyes. There's not so much
text there that you couldn't put it on the page in .html text, no?

In here:
http://www.designtotus.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?product=tournesol the
only thing that I think is a bit harsh is the navigation across the top --
those colors on green are a little painful. I would advise to stick to one
color for your nagivation items and pair them with a complementary color. In
fact, the yellow on all your pages is so dominant that you really only need
one other complementary color and I like the reddish/brown that you picked.

- amanda

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>          Hi guys ( & gals) Ok. It 2 am here, been having a go trying to
> finish up (80% done) this little project by friday.
> http://www.designtotus.com  ,it has a BIT of flash at the beginning
> (customer request) but I tried not to abuse considering it s a small
> e-commerce site.
>          I have yet to finish putting the product specs &
> pictures but the
> lay-out is pretty much . . . what makes my customer happy so far.
>          This is my first <not amateur> site & ALL CRITICS & BASHING will
> be taken. hehe :0). I have a few quirks I couldn t figure out to
> fix on the
> second page of the site, when you follow the link magasin en ligne , my
> table images are off one pixel in Explorer. Why ?! . I looked  &
> looked again.
> Ok, second thing on that page . . . I would like to know a
> mouseoverfunction to handle the image swap when the client passes
> over the
> text link, the corresponding image just above is swapped. The
> image already
> is a roll-over in Dream-Weaver.
>
> ok. 2 tips, I owe.
>
> <tip  type="web grammar"> Hey. I'm french, but. . . I just read this & I
> thought I'd share it with you.
>      Don't Use Apostrophes for Plurals. Use an apostrophe for a
> plural as a
> last resort. If you buy ten
>     CDs, isn't that better than buying ten CD's or ten C.D.'s? Use an
> apostrophe only if the abbreviation
>     requires periods, or in the case of single lower-case letters
> like x's
> and y's, or if leaving it out would     be plainly confusing.
> </tip>
>
> <tip  type="site usability">
> The organization of information within websites is vital to its overall
> usefulness.
>   In fact, a study by Morkes and Nielsen found that their experimental
> website "scored 58% higher in measured usability when it was written
> concisely, 47% higher when the text was scannable, and 27% higher when it
> was written in an objective style instead of the promotional
> style used in
> the control condition and many current web pages" (p. 1). That
> is, viewers
> tend not to spend too much time on a particular page. Instead
> they usually
> scan for information that is of direct interest to them. It is therefore
> recommended that the text within websites be very succinct, with only one
> key idea per paragraph, as well as use highlighted keyword or phrases and
> bulleted lists (Morkes & Nielsen, 1997)
> </tip>
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