Re: CRSP website

Nice site, Shelley and comfortable color theme. Also, nice job in the fact
that the site validated nicely to your doctype, however, your CSS didn't and
as a result didn't work in Netscape 4.7 which displays much of the text in
Times typestyle.
W3C CSS Validator http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html

Mozilla 0.9.5 did a better job than Netscape in understanding your CSS. It
interpreted the typestyle correctly, but not the size. It's displaying at
the default font size. Again, validate your CSS and tweak it for Netscape.

MSIE, like Monzilla, seems to be displaying the Font at default, also,
though I could be wrong. It looks bigger than the 10 pt your CSS asks for.
Try font-size: 10pt; instead of font-size: 10 pt;.

Next, and this is just my opinion and not a problem with your site, but  I'm
wondering if the time is over to support 600 pixel wide user agents where
people are surfing at standard VGA 640x480. I know that some of us still do,
but I'd rather see the site at 760 pixels, if it's going to be fixed width.

More importantly, I found that the images, from the top header to the
photos, were not well optimized for dial-up on any of the pages. For
instance, you have 65.9 KB in three small images on the index page. Look at
stedave.jpg for an example. It's close to 26k for a little 180x216 pixel
image. It's only compressed to a 78% J-Peg which is generally considered not
near enough for the Web. If you were to compress it to a 20% J-Peg, that
image would shrink to below 10k and I'll bet nobody could see any
difference, given the small size dimensions. These days, I like Photoshop's
"Save for the Web" feature. Just think, that nice first page could shrink to
under 40k total for images and HTML with a little tweak.

Overall, I liked this site a lot and can see you put considerable time in
it. It shows. Nice job.

Craig T. Harding
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley Watson" <shelley(at)internavigate.com>
To: <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:30 AM
Subject: CRSP website

> http://www.crsp.org - a non-profit organization that I belong to, revised
> website uploaded to their own domain.  Am hoping for some feedback on
this.
> A somewhat text-heavy, info site about the organization and it's purpose.
> Because I live and work in this field I can't be sure that the info I've
> included helps to the degree that I hope.  If you have time to even
comment
> on the layout, etc., that would be great.  BTW, the resource directory is
a
> huge PDF file - takes a while to download  so you might want to skip that
:)
> As well, the news page is mostly PDF links - most of our government
> bulletins and info are supplied in PDF so there aren't a lot of options
> there.
> Shelley
> shelley(at)internavigate.com
>

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