[thelist] Site Check

[Chris Johnston]

Jp wrote:

>Well after 3 months and thanks to some wonderful help/advice gleaned and
>solicited from thelist I have managed to get my first website published to
>the net.  If you have a few moment please cruise over and let me know what
>you think.
>
>  
>
Not a bad design. Nice and clean, fairly straight forward, and really 
really boring. There is nothing here to prompt the user to ever go any 
further into the site.

First question: what was the purpose of the site and who are the 
intended users?

Aside from the top, here are some other points that I noticed:
1. The little blinking quote thingy at the bottom rotates to fast to 
actually read any of the quotes. You may want to slow this down.

2. At small browser sizes in IE 6 and Mozilla, the blue bar that extends 
the top navigation does not continue to the end of the browser.

3. In mozilla, once again using a small browser size, the navigation 
totaly screws up. The options scroll down and form another line just 
below and messes up the design.

4. In mozilla, for the drop down menu options you get an I bar instead 
of the nice little hand.

5. On the left hand side, the orange that you use in the secondary 
navigation is hard to read against the lite blue background. The white 
on blue is not the easiest to read either.

6. You are missing an explicit Home button

7. Something seems to be missing on the bottom and the left hand side. 
The design just seems to end. This leaves me with the feeling that it is 
not quite done. I am mostly referring to the double lined T on the first 
page.

8. And finally, your html does not validate:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fterratechnology.com%2Findex.html
(watch for wrap)

Hey, you said to not hold back.

chris