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re: http://www.wordsatwork.com.au/ALPHA Hello Matthew! Here's my response to your request. I visited your site with a P300II Win95 Machine, 800x600 24 bit screen mode, MSIE 4.01 with 33K6 modem. * The site loaded fast, and that for a site not real close to me. Good! * The design has simplicity and elegance, is good looking. That's a neat job there, although I learned that frames can cause some people to go "Oh no! I'm caught in frames!". The use of colors and graphics so far is good. Easy on the eyes. * Whoops! I encountered the first problem. Actually, two problems. When I click on "Our Quick Pitch", the left frame (the red one) gets a scrollbar both vertical and horizontal. Seeing that the horizontal scroll bar suggested that I have to scroll allot to the right to see something, I figured that was an "Uh oh" to you. And indeed, scrolling to the right gave me some "Cont@act us" image far to the right, not visible before one scrolls. At the far bottom, there's an image with "Return to the main page" - I don't think you had in mind to add a little "scroll adventure" to the site, so I'd be sure to check that frame out. * The second problem I encountered (as noted previously) is that the screen changes every xx seconds. That's okay, but I can't read THAT fast. I'd say, just keep it to those "next" and "previous" buttons already in those pages. And btw, some of those images that were supposed to show gave me a "link broken" image - e.g. MSIE was thinking "What image? Where?". Okay, let's check out the rest. * Okay, I am at the "Case Studies". I like that eye up in the left corner - some may think it's "creepy", but it's a nice addition! Great! In this screen, the left frame (in red) is showing correct - no scroll bars and all the images are showing as they (probably) were designed. You need to keep in mind that MSIE adds room for a vertical scroll bar, even if it's not there. So the eye-image is not fully to the right edge of the frame - which might be something you DO want. (Oh, don't think MSIE is my fav. browser though). But why am I staring at a blank information screen (the white frame)? * Next screen: "Clients". Allot of clients there! And all of them with an image too. Hmm, I think that it'd be best to take your most important clients (they all are, I know, but those who can make others think "Wow, the served such and such?!"). Also, the "Good Guys Discount Warehouses" image is a broken link, as well as the eye-image in the left frame. The text in that left frame is literally against the left border of the browser, not making it very nice to look at, but that's not such a biggie to me - I can read what's there. * Now I noticed something about that "eye" too. It "flickers" which takes away a little of the professionalism you've put into the site. It also stops after a few, which I don't know if it were the intention - if it was, decrease the number of repeats. * The staff page seems to be A-OK Well, as you tell from my opinions and discoveries: IMO I think it needs a little more work, especially in checking the HTML code. Frames have never really been the Web Designers friend nor the surfers... (From my own experience). Sincerely, Mike Green.
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