RE: Commercial Critique

Hi Catherine,

I'm afraid I can't help you much with your JavaScript question, since I'm
new to that myself. But I did look at your site with IE 4.0 and NN 4.04, and
I have a couple of comments/suggestions.

Firstly, it looks very good, very professional and corporate with that
colour scheme. The navigation as you already have it works well on both
browsers. Load time was OK.

Now, I found it difficult to see the mouseover effect. In fact, I was
originally going to suggest that a mouseover would improve the navigation
bar. But then I looked at your code and saw that you are already doing it!
So, my suggestion now is to make the MouseOver effect more distinctive!

Another suggestion is to break up the projects page, it's quite long. It may
be more impressive to show a quick summary list as a first view, allowing
viewers to select a project to see more details.

As to frames and search engines - yes, the robots have difficulty finding
any words to match on the frameset page. Perhaps if you had some content in
the NOFRAMES section?

I hope someone else answers your JavaScript problem - I'm interested too!!!

Good Luck with your site

Marion

>original message clipped......
>
> 1.  First, I'd like feedback about the layout/design,
>
> 2.  The javascript creates the left side frame for me, and adjusts the
> mouse-on/off graphics to coordinate with the menu selection.
> I've also ensured that if the links at the bottom of
> the content pages are used that the mouse on/off reflects the new
> selection.
>
> 3.  MY PROBLEM:  I'd like to have a title included below the header
> banner - just under the grey bar (within the top frame) so that every
> time a new option is selected, the title shown will reflect the current
> page.  Of course I need to keep everything coordinated so that the mouse
> on/off selections remain coordinated with the header, and that the
> header will also change if the links within the content are used. And I
> don't want to have multiple htm's for the header.. I just want one to do
> it all.
>
> Also, I'm wondering what problems this sort of design might cause (if
> any) when I submit it to search engines?  Both because of the frames and
> also with all the javascript???
>
>snip
>
> Here's the URL:
> http://www.ottawacommunities.com/inodyn
>
> Thanks in advance,
>   Catherine
>
>
>
>

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