Re: Oops!

by simone(at)genesisnetwork.net (Demitrius)

Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:38:35 -0800
To:	"Alan McIntyre" <alan(at)idax.com>, <hwg-critique(at)mail.hwg.org>
	todo: View Thread, Original

Hi Alan,

Site critiqued: www.idax.com
Viewed with a P133, 640 x 480, 28.8, MSIE 4.0

Your index page was excessively heavy in file size. It took about 2 minutes
to load. That's way too long.

Your animated logo:
http://www.idax.com/images/idax_ani.gif
is 85k in file size! If you insist on keeping it, run it though Ulead's Gif
Animator and optimize the color palette. I ran it through and was able to
get it down to 40k. That's still real big. I would reduce the number of
cells. Sure, it'll look less fluid, but it's a good compromise, IMO.
http://www.ulead.com

If you reduced the pixel size of the static logo:
http://www.idax.com/images/icaslogo.gif
you wouldn't get that nasty horizontal scroll bar at 640 screen res.

Must all your banner links at the bottom be so large? I would reduce those
at least 50%.

Why did you strip out the:
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 2.0">
tags?

Why do you make some text look like a visited link? IMO, I would not
underline the text. It's too confusing. Bold and/or italic will suffice.

I do like the background. It's good to see you have full (and I mean full)
contact info at the bottom of every page. Good thinking.

That's my $0.02

Regards,
Demitrius >I<
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