The Webmistress — Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:21:43 +0000

Have you had the meeting yet Troy?

Brooke — Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:18:29 +0000

I know this is probably after the time - but I wanted to get back to you...

I see what you said about the mouseovers but I do agree that they need some color. Just think about it.

'the featured member spotlight', 'the sierra soho assoc' and the top nav don't match in my opinion. The first two are much more professional than the third one. I am not saying that I don't like the links - I do - they just don't seem to match the other two graphics.

That's all. I hope you had a good meeting!

Brooke :snow:

The Webmistress — Sat, 08 Sep 2001 13:52:05 +0000

Good luck with your meeting and don't forget to continue with this thread by telling us how it went!

tmay — Fri, 07 Sep 2001 05:04:13 +0000

Thank you very much everybody!

We're having a meeting about it this weekend. We'll see what we can do.

disaster-master — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:39:42 +0000

I just realized that somehow I missed critiquing your site and will probably repeat most of what has been said. For what my opinion is worth...here goes.

I love the simplicity of the site although I would add some color by doing the rollover thing. It would enhance it so much by bringing out just a little bit of color. The blue and white looks great looks great though. To me it is SCREAMING for some color....."please, please give me some color T". HAHA!!

The third image is just a wee bit smaller in height than the others and the black border around it is thicker at the bottom.

Also, the bottom of the page needs something. You have the title there but it is all alone. Why not do a very small logo there.

The "A" in your logo does look a little drab but it really isn't that bad to me.

As for the gifs that should be jpgs...they look to me as if they were sharpened too much if that makes sense.

Overall....I think you all have done a great job. It is really clean and straight to the point.

Lukster — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 23:15:18 +0000

I believe that the left navbar needs an injection of colour. The pale green is nearly unreadable on my monitor against the white background. Also you might want to include all the top navbar links as text at the very bottom on the off chance that somone doesnt display images.

My 2 cents..

Lukster
:gandalf:

Busy — Thu, 06 Sep 2001 02:46:29 +0000

The site is clean and professional looking but is rather blah.

I think you need to inject some colour into it somewhere, one place could be your icons, especially have a different color one for the page thats on. I think its the green links that give it that dull look, tryed dark grey?

the text is on the verge of being on the small side.

I also have a horz scroll on 800x600.

the five images on the index page are a little fuzzy, the second from the right is the worst to a point where I cant make out what the guy on the right is actually doing.
I notice too that its a gif, you probably know this already but never resize a gif with 256 colors or less, always increase to 24 mill colors, then resize, then decrease back to 256, 16 or whatever.

here is a free online service that crunchs .jpgs and .gifs if you need to http://www.spinwave.com/crunchers.html

looks good, keep it up

tmay — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 23:01:22 +0000

I didn't say mouseovers were unprofessional, I said our memberbase will be all professionals that don't care about that stuff. They are straight-forward business people. We just want clean and simple.

What logo at the top is too small?

Brooke — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 22:47:49 +0000

Well, I have to say that I disagree a little bit. Mouseovers don't make a site unprofessional in my opinion.

Also, you mentioned that you want the site to look the same from browser to browser. Yes, if you keep it simple it will be closer - but it still can look different.

There are a few things that I would like to point out:
the logo at the top is too small in my opinion.
the links don't match the logo at the top or side.
the two logos don't match - the one at the side seems really fancy and the links don't.

That's it!

Brooke :snow:

tmay — Wed, 05 Sep 2001 16:33:45 +0000

My partner is the one that got the images to use, she said they were exactly like they are now. She pulled them off of a free picture site.

We're still talking about the mouseovers. Her main concern is that our memberbase will be all professional business people that doesn't care about all the flashy stuff a page has. We have a ton of personal sites to play with. But she wants this one simple and to the point.