http://www.smytheandson.com/webweave/

Hi Kathleen,

URL: http://www.smytheandson.com/webweave/
P200MMX, 800x600, 640x480 24 bits, MSIE 3.02, win95

time for me to pay back some of your interest in my reviewing my pages.
I think they are pretty nice all of them. Clean and tidy, to the point, and
no junk graphics. Perhaps the design isn't amongst the most exciting I've
seen, but it works and looks professional.  Perhaps you could do something
with the actual menu. It's a bit dull, IMO. A drop shadow or something
perhaps? 

>2. ease of navigation

A bit confusing that the menu changes for each page. Besides, it uses more
bandwith when you have to load a new picture each time you go to another
page. I would just stick to the same image on all the pages. Most people
know where they have been without having 10 images or a javascript to tell
them.  But other than that the structure of the site looks comprehensible.


>3. do the pictures download in a reasonable length of time

Hardly didn't notice any time at all, good. But if you want to deacrease it
furthermore you should make a black table out of the black image at the
top. Do you sence what I'm getting at? It will look the same but we won't
have to download the image which you can make with the cell of a table.
Example: after the "y" in "gallerY" you cut the image and let the rest be a
black table.

Another thing, the 1a.gif doesn't look too good because you use a darker
black on its background. Make it darker.

Besides from the weaver being headless I think the imnage is to grainy in
24 bit, 800x600. I checked in 640x480 too and it looks the same. It should
also have a border on the right as well as the other 3 sides. Remember that
when you improve it/make a new one.

I got a message about a javaScript not working all the time. Whatever it is
I think you should lose it. The support for javaScript is appearantly not
good enough yet, eventhough I (and many with me) still use MSIE 3.x. If you
have to use them make sure you test them on both browsers, on both windows
and mac platforms to make sure they work, or ask guys like us as you do now.
So whatever it was, it doesn't work with my P200MMX, 800x600, 640x480, 24
bits, MSIE 3.02, win95.
<Microsoft JScript runtime error
[Line: 5] preload is undefined.>

 
Good luck,

Thomas

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