Suzanne — Fri, 11 Feb 2000 06:34:00 +0000

If you make the frames no scroll, you may have problems at lower resolutions (I didn't look at your code) -- setting the html file to having no margins may resolve part of your problems or adjusting the absolute width of the frame by a few pixels, depending on how you want to resolve it.

Since you have scrolls on both main frame sections, removing the scroll option will present a serious concern for those using a different resolution (smaller) than you are.

It seems to be a lot of advertising and hype on the first two screens with many whirling bits. The colours don't bother me.

Sorry, clicked on a link -- that purple with that green bothers me.

Actually, while it seems to be reasonably laid out navigationally, I still found it to be difficult to navigate because all the images look the same.

You have no text links. While some here seem to think that this isn't an issue, when you are dealing with a professional commercial site, not having text links can mean death for useability and a loss of customers.

Additionally, almost all your inner pages scroll horizontally at my resolution. At last measure, 800X600 was still the most common resolution.

Lastly, even Macromedia uses text links.

It looks like a brochure and fails for useability.

Suzanne

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Parker — Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:43:00 +0000

Very good! It is 2 wide on 800 x 600 res.
I don't understand why you have the frame at the bottom either. It is empty and isn't doing anything so why don't you get rid of it? Other than that it is very nice. I just think the colors are kind of ugly.

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Malte — Thu, 10 Feb 2000 18:51:00 +0000

You need a scolling=no in the left frame, so the ugly scroll bar disappears.

Malte

Rayna — Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:17:00 +0000

hurst.....

YIKES....at 800 x 600 res there are some problems. I took a screenshot so you can see what I see.
http://www.tripleorbit.com/hurst.jpg

I think you have some great things going on here but honestly if I was a customer surfing the web for services such as yours I would have hit the back button the second I saw all those frames!!

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Justin S — Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:36:00 +0000

Excellent! I really like how you used Flash! Here are a few comments:

Your main page is a little too wide and doesn't fit in the frame at 800x600 res.

You have an unused frame cell underneath your two main frame cells. Why?

Speed was good for Flash animation.

Wow!

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hurst — Thu, 10 Feb 2000 15:18:00 +0000

I would appreciate all views on our website. I would especially appreciate your comments on speed , looks , content and improvements. Thank you for your interest. www.hurst.co.uk

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Megan — Thu, 10 Feb 2000 05:10:00 +0000

Is there a really good reason why you're using frames? You've also got a couple of problems with them in there - I clicked on "What our clients say about us", then "continued" and that took me out of the frameset. Without the frameset there is no way of navigating the site. All of your "back to the home page" links on the other pages seem to be breaking the frameset too. Personally, I think frames are more trouble than they're worth, especially since the same thing could be accomplished with a tabled layout.

I also think that you've gone a little too far with the flash. Looping animation is annoying whether it's done with Flash or old fashioned gif's. The opening animation is nice, and so is the one on the main page, but I don't think that should loop - there's already enough going on with the fancy mouseovers

The menu looks pretty good, although I'm not too sure about your use of the purple. It kind of surprised me because it's not used on the rest of the page at all. I wouldn't have put it with pale green, but it doesn't look too bad. Maybe a more bluey-purple would look better.

ON the "News and Forthcoming Events" page you're using a bluey-green that isn't the same as the pale green on the navigation menu - I'd change that to match, change the blue text to green, and the default blue links to something else as well.

One more thing - for a business like this I think you should make sure that your geographical context is known to your visitors before they get too far into the site.