Re: Business Site: Invesco

First of all, my applause at seeing a decent subject title in the middle of
all the "critique please" subjects all over the lists.

At 10:35 AM 3/11/98 -0600, you wrote:
>My associates and I have recently won the redesign contract for the Invesco
>website located at http://www.invesco.com, one of the largest independent

Pentium System, Windows 95, Netscape 3.x Gold, 33.6k, 1024x768 @ 16bit color.


>1. What do you like about the current site?

The basic layout of it I liked.

>2. What would you do if "you" were the developer of the site? (please, no
>"I would kill myself" answers ... we've already got dibs on that answer
>*grin*)

Find a way to speed up the title's of the pages (the right top frame). Most
pages seemed to load in the bottom right section before the top right
section even changed at all. I think it should be the other way around.
Basically, all of it seemed to load slow that I checked out. The Javamenu
on the left, when I clicked on a page, it changed to grey, yet the old
page's selection was still grey for some time..

>3. Although there is a complete and functional text-only version available
>(thanks to us BTW), what do you think about the frames and their
>implementation and functionality?

At my resolution, I think they worked fine, however, with using Secure
pages, I would rather have the secure document full page as so Netscape
would then have it shown as secure (Blue bar across the top and the key on
the bottom)

>4. Speaking of frames ... how do you feel about the present navigation?

i think It works pretty well, however, you may want to make the navigation
images a little taller so that ALT's show up. One thing I hate about
netscape is the fact ALT's don't display unless the image is a certain
height minimum.

>5. In your opinion ... Does the site reflect the nature of their industry?
>(meaning ... does it come across more as a conservative presence or does it
>have a contemporary feel to it?)

I thought the site seemed pretty professional.

>6. For all those with a fine tuned eye ... how does the graphical presence
>strike you?

Just speed up the times on the graphics.

>7. Any other comments?

One thing I noticed, when you do a "reload" the menu no longer shows which
section you are in.

There is a cure for this :-) I took me some time to figure out how to make
a "work around" for it, but for a customers site, I was able to make it so
if you did a basic reload (not SHIFT-RELOAD) that it would tell you what
page it was on.

If you'd like I'll toss up a sample page using some of the code I wrote in
the page, along with explanation how it worked. Unfortunately, after
getting it working right, the customer opted to remove the frames....
Figures... hehe.

Hope this information helps you improve on the site. Main thing I would
concentrate on is the loading times, especially the order it loads up the
frames so that the menu across the top is there at least partially before
the bottom half is complete.

-Greg

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