Re: Chart North Web Design site critique

Nice clean site, but there were a few problems I wanted to mention.
Viewed with MSIE 5.5 and NS 6.0 at 24 bit 640x480 - 1280x1024

1. You mention that you design sites that degrade well, but at 640, one gets
a scroll bar on each page and at 1024, 1280, or higher, the right hand image
is so far removed from the text as to look strange, IMO.

2. You mention that Karen is a "trained web designer and programmer." I'd
put something in there about where or what kind of training and degrees
related... maybe something about programming skills. I saw no programming
evidence.

3. Because this is a new site with an almost non-existent portfolio, I would
suggest some additional examples of work, including some more layout and
graphic skills. Maybe include one or two templated example site... maybe
even include a price example on them. I'd also consider, in the programming
vein, some examples of how you might handle database backends, ASP, and
other Web related technologies.

4. I would suggest another contact form on the Contact Us page.

5. Consider redoing the present contact form using tables and aligning
things up a little better. That thing seems to go on and on... a long skinny
form. (nit picking, I know)

6. Consider not replying to your form quoting those environmental vars
(REMOTE_HOST,REMOTE_ADDR,HTTP_USER_AGENT) as some folks resent their
collection.

One more thing. I know it's politically correct to talk about
"accessibility" these days, but do clients really care? Would they want to
lose a smidgen of interactivity or design style to gain a smidgen of
accessibility? I'm talking "real world" here. Oh well, just a thought.

Nice job in putting all the contact info on the bottom of each page... a
good idea that lots of people forget.

Overall, I liked the site and really liked the logo and overall theme. I
would agree with another in that somehow a little more salesmanship needs to
happen. You've chosen a simple yet clean approach is little interactivity,
so people need some reason to excite them or sell them into using you over
the myriad of other startup design groups.

> We finally got our web design business site finished.  I'd
> appreciate any comments.  Thanks so much for your time!
> Karen
> Chart North Web Design
> webdesign(at)chartnorth.com
> www.chartnorth.com

Craig T. Harding

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