anat — Thu, 25 May 2000 17:18:00 +0000

I like your site - content and design. Just a few little thing I would consider changing:

- The graphics would look better if you made their background transparent (in GIF format). I first noticed that on the blue background (top) but you can see that on the others as well.
- The colors are very nice as well as the graphics. The problem is that the page is so "busy" that the graphics don't seem to stand out and draw enough attention.
- I didn't have to scroll to the sides (I'm using 800*600), maybe you changed that already. I also don't mind having to scroll downwards. The important thing is to put the important info & links on the top part of the page and you seem to have done that fine.

Good Luck!

Megan — Thu, 25 May 2000 14:01:00 +0000

That font you have for the graphics has to go. It's too hard to read.

I definitely agree that it's too busy. There's a lot of stuff on here, and when you combine that with the graphics it just gets hard to focus on anything. Get rid of any of those ad buttons that don't need to be there (especially the animated ones), and use text links instead.

The design looks nice, but as I've said before, pale/muted colour schemes make brightly coloured ads stand out a lot. If you're going to have a lot of ads, you should really try a bright colour scheme so the ads don't overpower your design.

Why in the world is there so much space at the bottom? I get, like, 3 pages of empty space and that's at 1024. I also agree that your logo needs to be more prominent. The titles on the sub-pages need to be bigger and more prominent as well. Oh, and keep your text away from the edge of the table cell a little more.

You could probably use a drop down menu for your activity center. Maybe you could do that for the sites that you're linking to externally, and use graphics or text links for the ones that you do yourself.

As a Canadian, I would really like to see a site like this that indicates whether or not the sites will sell outside of the US.

Justin S — Thu, 25 May 2000 12:53:00 +0000

1) Front page is way too wide. It scrolls on my 800x600 resolution. Also- there are tons of line breaks after the design is finished.

2) Took over 30 seconds for the site to load on my 56k modem. Not good! Especially for a shopping site. I would get rid of alot of the small buttons and banners that plague the site.

3) I agree that the site is too busy. People will get distracted with all the stuff...

Overall I think it's ok, but it needs some work.

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johnnyboy — Thu, 25 May 2000 09:20:00 +0000

nysluggers,

I thought the front page was way to busy. You could bullet the list on the left instead of making it more graphics. I think that would be your best option, because if you add more graphics, your page will load even slower.
Consider making your logo a link back to your home page in addition to the text link.

The graphics had a cohesive feel to them. Blue and gray work well together, just look at this forum!

John

bilbong30 — Thu, 25 May 2000 03:33:00 +0000

Well i think your site is very good. There a few suggestions i have though...

1)Load time took awhile
2)I dont like having to scroll over on my 15 inch monitor.
3)Put some rollovers on the left.
4)Have a more distinct logo. Its very tiny compared to everything else..Your logo should be very noticable i think!
5)You can scroll down quite a bit on the front page

Those were just a few tips and concerns..Good job though!

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