Re: Critique a greeting card site

IE 5.5
Win2000
1024x786
16 bit colour
DSL connection

Hi there.

a few things.

1) I like the nice yellow font used on the top left side.  It looks great
with the dark navy.  I would however move the navigation buttons up a bit.
They seem too low, and would look better closer to the yellow text.

2) The text on the page is easily read, but I imagine at 640x480 it would be
just enormous.  You might want to think about reducing it's size.

3) On the actual order page, you say that it requires JavaScript.  That is a
good start, but you might think of making use of the <noscript> tags.  Have
them display a nice big <h3> message across the top warning the users as
well.  It will save those that don't read the small text some sanity,
without having to display the warning to those users who are using
javascript.

4) Very beautiful pictures on the site.  The pages loaded fast for me(DSL),
but when I check them for size, they are too big for dialup.  The page that
displays the greeting cards
itself(http://members.aol.com/seascapecards/cards.html) is over 130k in
size.  This will take a 56k user well over 30-40 seconds to download, which
is quite a long wait.  Maybe make smaller thumbnails and give the user the
opportunity to view a larger image by clicking on the thumbnail.

Hope this helps


Paul Mennega

http://www.mennega.com
Mennega Solutions
"Your Solution Source"

----- Original Message -----
From: <DScha97041(at)aol.com>
To: <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 6:25 PM
Subject: Critique a greeting card site


> Hi
>
> I have redesigned my site and used XHTML.
> I would like to know how it looks. I would like to
> know if the load time is to long. All comments
> are welcome.
>
> http://members.aol.com/seascapecards/
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
> Dick
>
>
>

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