Parker — Fri, 24 Mar 2000 02:00:00 +0000

I feel like I just reviewed this site aday or 2 ago. Well it looks better now. Like how you don't have frames. It all looks good. The only thing I can suggest is the edges are jagedy. The rest looks good. Although I don't really care for all the blue.

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Formerly- ParkerT and sixflags111

josemontesjr — Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:18:00 +0000

Thank you Webmaster Drill Sergents. I will drop give you 50 and get back to training.

Suzanne — Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:23:00 +0000

There is a space between your header and the rest of the text in Netscape, and the text is right against the blue background on the edges, so that it is hard to read.

The swoosh isn't anti-aliased (it is jaggedy) -- it's a great idea but needs to be anti-aliased. www.gettingstarted.net is a good place to learn about graphics on the web.

The table cell where the text is needs to have cellpadding. Or a nested table to provide the illusion of cellpadding.

Oh, my lord -- that is the code that Fireworks pops out? Egads. Well, when you get more familiar with coding, perhaps you can trim up those rows of cells. Eek!

FYI, everything that starts with MM_ is just MacroMedia's way of getting their name into everything. If you are going to learn JavaScript, you will find there is no MM_!
www.useit.com (Jakob Neilson) has articles on reading and the web. To sum up, chop it up and make eyeball footholds. Use bold keywords and use headings <h1> et cetera in order to make the text easily scanable. Without these, I see a big block of text and no reason to read it.

Guestbook, chat, links are all things that can be under one heading or grouping. So are pictures, members, about us and recordings. If you trim up the navigation so that it is meaningful to the viewer, it will help the user get to the information more quickly and more accurately.

Services/Presentations would be better represented as 'Shows' or 'Performances' and grouped together either on one page (local and out of town on the same page) or local and a link to the out of town page from there.

The big list of stuff on the about page can be segmented into AWARDS, SPECIAL PERFORMANCES, et cetera (titles within the list and sorted) so that it makes sense to the viewer.

Individual head shots of the members would be nice on the members page.

Use headings (<h1> et cetera) for the titles on the pages, not all caps.

Spell-checking would be a good idea, or have someone read it over -- most of the typos are hard to find ones like 'haves' at the bottom of the first page.

Whenever possible, link the text itself to the other pages of your site. So if you are talking about recent performances include blah, blah, they can just click on recent performances and boom, see for themselves.

I can really see the development, which is nice!

Suzanne

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Rob Pengelly — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:41:00 +0000

It loads fine for me.

I like the logo you have, it looks great. The menu is pretty good except the edges aren't too smooth.

The only thing I suggest is you loose the Curser script. It is REALLY annoying. The script made a link to there site on my desktop and on my task bar.

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josemontesjr — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 22:36:00 +0000

Sorry about the frequent posting Justin, I did not know that was against the rules.

What can I do to make the pages load faster?

bilbong30 — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:32:00 +0000

Ya just keep getting better and better with your sites. Keep it up!
Here are a couple small things i saw:
1)Your recordings link needs to be spaced over to the right a tad bit. It doesnt looked lined up quite evenly like all the other links.
2)Some of your pages took some time to load. I am on a cable modem so that shouldnt be happening!
3)On your pictures page, i think that you should maybe make the thumbnails all the same size. Also when ya click on the thumbnail, that page with the bigger picture should not just be plain white. ya just use a blue background like the other pages. The big picture took extreemly long to load as well.
4)Use more colors. You have red rollovers, so why dont ya incorporate red within the site more?

Ummm, thats it for now, hope that helps!

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adamlee@mediaone.net

Justin S — Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:07:00 +0000

Jose: Please don't open so many new topics on the same site in such a small amount of time. If it's been less than 2 weeks than please just post your update in your last thread. For this reason I have closed your other two threads. Please don't do this again. Thanks.

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