Re: Need a quick site-layout critique

Jacqueline,

It's obvious you've put quite a bit of work into your site.  It shows.
Everything looks great at 1024x768.  My only criticism (at that resolution)
is that I'm not fond of clip art.  The areas you write about are so
beautiful, drop some pictures in.  Maybe make them thumbnails if you're
pressed for space, and have them launch in new windows when clicked on.

At 640x480, you have some problems.  Your navigation graphics are rather
large, and take up most of the screen real estate, leaving you little room
down the middle for text.  On the page with your photo, the picture is so
wide that the user is forced to scroll horizontally (a real problem).  Also,
your vertical rules are not long enough at this resolution.

Whether you design for people at 640x480 is up to you.  I'm not going to
start a holy war over this.  I will say that many people I know run their
monitors at this resolution because:
1.  They don't know how to change the resolution
2.  They like everything on the screen to be large.

If you decide to redesign to be friendlier to low resolution, I would scale
the leaf graphics down a bit and take them out to the margins of the page to
maximize your working space.

I look forward to seeing your photographs and have bookmarked your page.

Mike Eovino
Webmaster
Estes Express Lines
http://www.estes-express.com  (old site)
http://www.estes-express.com/beta  (test site, feel free to critique)

<off topic personal note of no general interest>
Did you see them moving the lighthouse when you were in Cape Hatteras?  I
spoke with one of the park service officials when I was there over Memorial
Day weekend, and I think that's just amazing that they can do this!
</off topic personal note of no general interest>

-----Original Message-----
From: Memoirs <memoirs(at)geocities.com>
To: hwg-critique(at)mail.hwg.org <hwg-critique(at)mail.hwg.org>
Date: Thursday, June 24, 1999 9:16 PM
Subject: Need a quick site-layout critique


>Greetings, all!
>
>I'm sort of new to the list (kind of a lurker... I promise to participate
in
>the near future!), but was curious if anyone could take the time to peruse
>my monthly e-zine, Mountain Memoirs, at
>http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Forest/1691 .
>
>I'm mostly concerned about aesthetics, color combinations, legibility of
>text in graphics, and load time.  The darn GeoCities banner, at least on my
>computer, seems to take forever, but that's just a fact of life for now.  I
>get about two to seven hundred hits a month and this month, with the new
>layout, I have received everything from "Great new layout!" to "Too much
>green" and "Can't read the curly-que letters!..." so please let me know
what
>you think.  Thanks a bunch!
>
>Sincerely,
>Jacqueline
>

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