Critiques of The Goodhue Gallery

Group:

Thank you for all your comments on my website.  The majority of the
criticisms dealt with my use of a scrolling task bar to instruct about the
site navigation.  Many of you found this to be a distraction and a misuse of
the task bar.  Well, I'm flexible.  I'm willing to try something different.

In the Lobby of the site, I've gotten rid of the scrolling task bar and
added a button operated scroll box.  Please bear in mind that I need
something without much height because I have some pages with horizontal
scrolls (which I under no circumstances want to kick on the vertical scroll
bar), and I want to keep the navigation instructions consistent throughout
the site.

I only changed the one Lobby page because I want to know that you all think.
Is this better, or worse (as in more distracting from the images)?  I'm
certainly willing to go back and switch the navigation on all the pages I
have up now (as I did after a suggestion about making my alt tags more
informative and less descriptive), but I've got the images ready and am
about to build 3 more gallery rooms (including adding a second floor) and I
don't want to have to go back and do ALL that over again.

I, personally, still lean toward the scrolling task bar.  It's farther away
from the main viewing area.  But, I need some more opinions.  Please??

Jeff Whyle
Webmaster(at)hawkfan.com
http://www.hawkfan.com

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