oswebmaster — Fri, 01 Dec 2000 14:30:37 +0000

I will take off the scroll. How do i make buttons that are not different images?

Edit by Megan: (also deleted another post) - please do not make wild accusations on the board - take it to private e-mail if it's that important to you.

[Edited by Megan Jack on Dec. 01, 2000 at 02:47 PM]

Megan — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 18:52:40 +0000

Okay... well.... can I assume that the frame ad and the pop-up are Angelfire things? I'll try to ignore them, but overall there are way too many ads on here - the frame ad, the pop-up, the banner at the top of the page and all the little ones at the bottom. Get rid of all the ones that aren't absolutely necessary. It's good that you've put the smaller ones below the fold, but they still look pretty tacky.

THe left frame, which I assume contains the navigation isn't coming up for me so I can't really see much of the site. A couple of comments about the main page that is up there.

The background of this page is a problem, because it makes it hard to read the text on top of it. Patterned backgrounds are difficult to use actually - it's a common practice for beginners, but really, it is hard to make them look good. It's usually best to try a more subtle pattern.

Another thing that needs to go is the useless javascript. It's just plain annoying if you ask me. Instead of using a pop-up alert to tell people that this isn't an official page, you could just put some sort of a disclaimer at the bottom of your page. The scrolling text in the status bar is kind of useless too.

I'm going to stop there. What you need to do is look into what makes a good web site. A "less is more" kind of approach has become very common. Clean, simple designs are usually best.