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[Adam]

Extremely well designed!

I do have some comments...

-flash for content isn't a good idea... many issues surrounding this but if
you must...

http://www.flazoom.com/usability/

-Logo in the right corner (defying conventional left where users expect to
see it). it is also difficult on my mac IE5.0/800x600 to make out the words
"annual convention". - the number one message that users should get when
they come to your site is the site's identity and thus value to them -Should
be unquestionable for them.

-From the main page the link under "partner for life"- the whole line should
be active not just the last word... arrow should point down...er no?

- I would say you should do what you can to get the site to validate
http://validator.w3.org/ - but since the site is temporary maybe forward
compatibility isn't an issue for you, any idea on the site's life cycle?

here are some resources...

http://www.nypl.org/styleguide/xhtml/benefits.html

http://www.webstandards.org/edu_faq.html#p3

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp *

*note the % of users with javascript turned off.


- you should  DEFINITELY provide alternative content for non flash users -
if the moock script does that... great. You might want to clear up some of
that html by putting the javascript in external docs, -might make it easier
for you to manage the code and avoid redundancy (ie: your mouseover code).

All in all visually it's a really nicely laid out site, I'd certainly be
proud of it.

Hope the bits above are helpful

cheers!
Adam.

on 3/17/02 7:25 AM, David Dorward at david at us-lot.org wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 07:18:01PM -0800, Jake Aust wrote:
>> hi friends...
>>
>> I would appreciate it very much if some of you would take a look at a site
>> I've built to let me know what you think. Especially if something breaks!
>>
>> The most complicated thing I've got going on is the home page which has
>> flash and non-flash content being written out by a flash detector. (The
>> Flash Player Inspector by Colin Moock at www.moock.org).
>>
>> I'm very proud of the site and it is for a big client that we hope to get
>> more work from...24 Hour Fitness.
>>
>> here's the link:
>>
>> http://www.lovejoycreative.com/extranet/24hour/
>
> No alt text (use alt="" or alt=" " for spacer.gif files), no
> <noframes> content, and frame names based on layout rather then
> content. The frames page is also missing a title. Unusable in lynx
> (and therefore presumable speech and braille browsers).
>
> http://david.us-lot.org/tmp/home.png
> http://david.us-lot.org/tmp/frames.png
>
> I suggest you take a look at:
>
> Use of ALT texts in IMGs:
> http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/%7Eflavell/alt/alt-text.html
>
> Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
>
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> David Dorward   http://david.us-lot.org/
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