FW: RE: [thelist] Site Critique Please

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From: "Andrew C. Wiss" <andyw at vectorvest.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Subject: RE: [thelist] Site Critique Please
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 09:00:22 -0400

Jorah,

The easiest way to achieve the whitespace you ae looking for is to 
throw a
second table along the right hand side of the page.  Leave it blank 
without
borders and set the width to 15 pixels or so.  It really could use a 
little
spacing on the right.
You might also want to try using Adobe Image Ready to re-export 
the original
images on the "splash screen" style home page.  You can acheive 
the same
images without all the lossy image quality.

Lata,
Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Jorah Lavin [mailto:madstone at madstone.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2000 9:15 AM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org; thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Site Critique Please


At 07:45 AM 7/4/00, John Scoot wrote:

>Would you please critique the following site 
www.buildingadvice.co.uk it's
>ourfirst serious commercial site and we would like to learn from 
our
>mistakes.

I didn't see any functional problems... Win95, 56k modem, looking 
at the
site from the US.  All my comments are just personal opinion...

I'd love to see a little more "margin" space on the right side.  The 
text
is running into the browser side on my screen.  Some of the pages 
have the
text running right down to the very bottom... I'd like a little more
whitespace down there.
I like the way the top of the page smoothly resizes to fit my browser
window.  I like the little construction men who animate alongside 
the left
menu, but was surprised when they didn't show up every time... 
might it be
more clear if they actually _stayed_there_ pointing at the menu 
item for
the current page I'm on?

On the other hand, (pun intended) I always feel like I'm breaking out 
in
hives when I see the "shaking hands" image like the one you have 
on the
splash page... and that tiny animation with the people sitting 
around the
table got annoying really quickly.

>I know we will get flak for using Comic Sans throughout, but this
>was at our client's insistence.

Actually, I thought it worked with the overall theme of the cartoon
construction workers.

>thanks in advance for your criticisms and comments.

I think it is a very smooth, unified look, focused on the task at hand.

I was a little mystified at the link to Fluke, though... why give me a 
link
to a site I can't see unless I've got a password?

-Jorah