Re: The day the music died

by "Kathy" <ksiddall(at)attcanada.net>

 Date:  Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:47:06 -0700
 To:  "Jim Heaton" <Jim(at)Heaton.net>
 Cc:  <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
  todo: View Thread, Original
Hi there,
Music takes too long to download and each person's musical tastes are
different. If it is rock, I am offended whereas if it is country it would
offend others. I keep a CD in playing music while I work and sound on a site
interferes with that.
I hope this helps :-)


>Okay, okay! I took the music down.
>
>On a commercial site it doesn't matter why people don't like something. It
>matters only that they don't.
>
>But on this critique list I expected that I'd get reasons for the "why". I
>got a lot of reasons why and I thank all who responded for taking the time
>to explain. Since music on a site doesn't bother me (I truly couldn't care
>less) but seems to be a pet peeve of many, I'd still like to hear from
>anyone who feels like "venting".
>
>Not everybody said music was a bad idea, but many did. On the other hand,
>not one person said a single positive thing about it. So it would seem to
me
>that it works only in one direction: not good.
>
>If I missed responding to anybody, it's because it had been a couple of
days
>since my last back-up when I got the dreaded crash last week and I lost
>about two day's email and a couple of bookmarks. I'm going to either a
CD-RW
>or a swappable hard drive (if I can find one) and avoid the nusance
>altohether in the future.
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Jim
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: escalate <escalate(at)ne.infi.net>
>To: Jim Heaton <Jim(at)Heaton.net>
>Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 9:33 PM
>Subject: Re: http://www.hosco.com
>
>
>> gotta get rid of the music
>> everything else pretty nice; maybe a few margin corrections but nothing
>real
>> noticeable.
>> pat
>>
>> Jim Heaton wrote:
>>
>> > First, I want to thank everyone who helped me with my last request for
a
>> > critique. Based soley on the feedback I got from this list, I decided
>not to
>> > accept the challenge of re-writing the entire site.
>> >
>> > However, I do have one I accepted in January and I think it's time I
got
>> > some critiques on it.
>> >
>> > It is located at: http://www.hosco.com and I had to move it to a new
>server
>> > over Memorial Day weekend. It is not an e-commerce site. It is a "Web
>> > presence" site. In other words, the company wanted to be on the Web and
>> > that's what they got. I have tried to break it up into relevant pages
>and
>> > keep scrolling to a minimum.
>> >
>> > The "Request Literature" page has been giving me fits because the form
>had
>> > always sent an email instantly - but ever since I moved the site it was
>> > showing a "not found" error when the "submit" button was clicked on. I
>> > rewrote the thing but now it puts the email in the person's computer's
>> > outbox and has to be sent manually.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance,
>> >
>> > Jim
>>
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>>
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