The Webmistress — Sat, 19 Oct 2002 07:30:11 +0000

Daryl, don't forget to tell us when you've made any changes as we'd all like to see the results

nepatriots — Sat, 19 Oct 2002 00:07:44 +0000

Thanks so much for the helpful feedback! We will be incorporating all of this feedback in the near future.

Interesting how code sloppiness seems to be a primary source of the problems...

-Daryl

disaster-master — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:45:04 +0000

Quote: I imagine we'd be talking more than just a flash on a dialup.

Yeppers. More than a flash on dial up.

taff — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 14:42:59 +0000

Yep, I like these colours also... a lot.

*pauses to make note of colour codes*

You definitely have issues somewhere with your page/table widths which is causing the "jerkiness" on page changes.

Another thing I noticed is that you are using the green as your body background colour and adding the white via table backgrounds which causes a flash of solid green on page change. I imagine we'd be talking more than just a flash on a dialup.

For the amount of green you are actually using, I'd recommend a white body background with the green assigned as a bg to the navigation only.

I know that you already have width issues but your left margin really needs some padding. At 800x600, your text is all jammed against the edge.

I agree that you could use a better hover colour (perhaps the green? maybe not.) and also think that you could use a second text navbar at page bottoms.

disaster-master — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:50:18 +0000

Looks nice overall but there are a few things you could do to liven it up a bit.

First off, rollovers for the links. A color change besides the black on mouseover would be a good effect.

The images that you are using below the navigation look a wee bit unfinished. They need something like maybe a border or uneven edges. Not sure but just the square image sitting there looks too plain.

Your tagline, "Marketing. Strategy. Innovations. Profits.", at first looks like it would be links to other pages. You might consider making your tagline an image and use a decorative font so that it doesn't look like links. I wouldn't use the periods there either. Maybe commas with an exclaimation point at the end???

Oh, I am getting a horizonal scroll here too.

Sonia

Megan — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:48:50 +0000

This site looks very nice, the logo is great and I really like the colour scheme as well. The layout is simple yet effective, although I think it could maybe use a little more added interest somewhere.

I think the biggest thing is that your code could really use a lot of work. I was going to say something about your paragraph spacing here which I originally thought must have been done with CSS to reduce the spacing, but I see that you've used 's and spacer images to create paragraph spacing - this is what the paragraph tag is for! Also learn about the list elements and other basic features of HTML. The built-in structural mark-up usually provides a good amount of spacing and indent by default, and you can always modify that with a stylesheet. Default spacing just tends to make things a little easier to read - everything seems really cramped together here.

The Webmistress — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:00:33 +0000

I agree with everything that's been said previously but I do like the colours and the design is very nice but seems a wee bit lopsided. You definitely need to do something with the links, they need a mouseover, and make then look like links as there are so many places on your site where non-links look like links and vice versa.

zollet — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 07:34:51 +0000

I like the design, but the pages keep moving left and right(when you click on a menu, the other pages are a few pixels off).

Busy — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 07:26:08 +0000

At 800x600 there is a horz scroll bar but your content is jammed against the side, i see in your soucre code you have main table at 100% then nestd table at 796, browsers borders are different so you have to go down to about 780 for fixed width.

what did you use to make this site, which editor? at the top it has "" you use CSS for the links, You really need to carry CSS through your site more, get rid of those 100's of font tags.
7 nested tables? you could do this site in 3 at the most, tables are good but try not to over do them, nesting gets really messy and hard to edit, plus adds to loading time.
You're also using blank images when there is no need to, replace them with either or surround the paragrah in and tags.

I like the look, simple yet clean, but the navigation colors are confusing being in the green box, the word at top right look like they are links, but arent, maybe use a mouseover color (a:hover) or underline (text-decoration:underline) on a:hover (or both).
example on the resources page, the first paragraph has a link, but its only found by moving your mouse over it so the cursor changes, they really need to be another color.

Last thing would be the "home" link, looks very squashed in the blue box, maybe give it some more space.

Welcome to TWF btw