[thelist] [fwd] site review

[Glenn Hunt]

First off, the interface and look are nice and very consistent across
the links I saw (most).

Second though, I *HATE* when browsers force a window size, especially
when if then forces me to scroll the content. In your case it forces not
only vertical scrolling [forgiveable, maybe :)], but also horizontal
[unforgiveable - where was that wet noodle ......]. There is no reason
that the site can't be "fluid" and look good - the menu on the left
would be in the top left corner, and just fall away at the top and left.

Third, the HTML site can have almost the same look and feel as the Flash
site.

Glenn Hunt
ghunt at hds.ca

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> All,
> Before asking you to take a look at this site, I'd like to 
> prepare you -- and protect myself from unnecessary criticism. 
>  Please feel free to let the necessary type fly. ;-) I do 
> realize the following: 1. Yes, it has Flash content (and you 
> can't navigate without it).  Because a large portion of our 
> training is delivered via the web, we're attempting to show 
> our users and potential users that the content does not have 
> to be static or silent to load quickly.  I'm trying to 
> convince the higher ups to at least have an html-only option 
> on the home page.  The html-only pages already exist. 2. It 
> uses frames. Not my idea but I'm not the only one working on 
> this site and I was outvoted.  :-(  I'm currently looking at 
> ways to force frames on our unsuspecting visitors so they 
> don't find a page and then have no way to find the others. 3. 
> It was built for IE users based on info found at 
www.echoecho.com. (Does anyone know if that info is accurate or not?)
I'd like for it to look and work properly in Netscape and other browsers
but am at a loss as to how to do this. (The bosses don't feel it's
necessary.) 4. We force a window size.  What's the feeling on this?  It
was done to make sure that the page looked right.

Now, with some of the explanation out of the way...
The main site is located at www.nti-online.com
The html-only content can be accessed at www.nti-online.com/html

TIA,
CindyLouWho


Cindy L. Jorgensen
Multimedia and Training Specialist
NTI Online
cjorgensen at nti-online.com


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