critiques for all!

Hello all! Please, everyone take these with a grain of salt. I did them all 
at once because I get the digest version. These are all IMHO (which may or 
may not be worth consideration to you!)  If you have questions about my why 
I made a specific comment, feel free to ask me off the list.
All info is based on IE 4 - Windows 95 - T1 connection - 1024x768 HiColor 
(16bit)

http://www.canicom.com/asp/CConnect.asp
I like your mouseover graphic on the bottom of the main page, however you 
might want to change your alt tag to say something besides mouseover 
graphic.  I think that you would have a nice color scheme going between your 
graphics if it weren�t for the maroon links with red visited links. I 
suggest that you change these to something else that fits your color scheme 
a little better. I would also suggest that you make contain your information 
within a table so that it doesn�t spread out at higher resolutions. I guess 
its personal preference but I would rather have things in the center rather 
than all spaced out.   I like your background image.  The who can use this? 
link goes directly to the page without the dropdown presumably because there 
is nothing to drop below it. I think that what does it cost? should be the 
same because there is only one option for that one.  All in all, good site. 
Navigation works ok and content is good.

http://www.2ndtononegifts.com
My first impression was that the color combination was odd, but not that bad 
and that the animated gif needed to be slowed down a little between frames. 
I like having the contact info on every page and I think that your 
navigation is effective. Is searching your site the main thing you want 
people to do since that�s where you go automatically when you enter? For 
some reason when I move my mouse back and forth the floating star candle 
moves slightly from right to left or sort of shook?  Why does the crafts 
page take me to the date reminder service? Is it just because that is on 
every page and the only content? It was just somewhat confusing. I really 
like the online pager idea.  Over all, a nice site, colors are a little odd, 
but consistent and effective.

http://www.optionsource.com/
I like the look of your site. The navigation is helpful I like the use of 
color. The constant ticker tape type thing on the front page annoyed me 
after a while. It would depend on how long a person is expected to stay on 
the front page or if its only there to exist as a jumping off point for 
other pages. I would suggest that you  make the headers, like the What�s new 
at Option Source into a link as well rather than just being able to click on 
more. I guess maybe it�s from visiting other sites but I expected to be able 
to click on the headlines that interested me. I would do this on all of your 
pages. Who is Bernie Schaeffer? Should I recognize his picture or name, or 
more importantly would your site visitors?  I think that when you click on 
it and it asks for your name and password I would include a bit about who he 
is. (Unless of course he�s someone notable and I just don�t know it!) 
Overall, I like it and think it will be a useful site to those for whom its 
intended.

http://neXXus.dragonfire.net/FNB/
Very nice! Like the splash page, but it a took a while for a T-1 connection. 
Maybe it was just busy lines though.  I suggest lightening the picture on 
the athlete�s resource page.  I like the armoury page, but who is Dave? I 
really appreciate the general fencing pages for those of us who know nothing 
about fencing. By the looks of your message board you get a lot of traffic. 
Good luck to you, this is a very well thought out site. 

http://www.nacs.net/~adrock
Very nice site look. I was confused as to the purpose of the site??  I 
looked at a few of your links and had no idea what your site was for. I am 
getting the idea that maybe it is a personal site or a site housing message 
boards.in which case it looks very appealing, but doesn�t have much content, 
especially right off. I didn�t like to have to go in layers and layers to 
find content. On the wall page the blue text was much to hard for me to read 
on the black background.

http://www.scott-baldwin.com
On the opening page, at first I was confused about what the page was about. 
You have a dr. picture and a quote about drs. and it really has nothing to 
do with your site topic? I think that maybe you should wait to put the link 
to your home page on until you have content on it. The navigation is nice. I 
am not sure why I would come to this page if I was looking for a CPA. Is 
that the intention? The focus seems to be more on user activities. I really 
like the profiles page and it gives useful info. So does the services page, 
however all the other pages, guestbook, networking, feedback, etc. are all 
user services and weren�t what I would expect from a page for a CPA. 
However, if users are coming there knowing you offer free email, things like 
this are fine. Overall the look of the page and the navigation is effective.

http://mypage.goplay.com/belibutn
I like your opening page. Inside you site though, I think that the color of 
the font is much, much to dark. On my computer I could hardly read the text 
and had to highlight to see read well. The use of frames is ok, but your 
bottom frame at my resolution take up half the page and all it has in it is 
guest book info. I think if you set the font to white that might be a nice 
choice to go with the purple/greenish images. Look how nice the Rifts logo 
looks since its lighter.  I must say that the newer browser version is much 
improved over what I think was the previous no-frames version. Good luck 
with your content :-)

http://www.winabc.org
I like the front page. It has nice photos and a good color scheme. However, 
I would suggest visited links be something other than orange.  Within the 
site, again, I say get rid of the orange!  I really like the navigation, 
especially on the top. I really like how the site is contained within the 
center of the screen. The only thing is on the bottom of the stamp page, the 
text stretches across the whole screen and looks out of place to me.  The 
contact us page looks disorganized and the donations to win page is 
partially left aligned while the navigation is center aligned and it looks 
odd together. The content of the site is very useful. I really like the 
story page. The pictures make that page great. I also appreciate the site 
map and glossary (or will appreciate the glossary, the idea of having it is 
nice).

Hope I could help somebody with my comments :-)

Heather Winter
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