Critique of alumnus site(was Re: A test message)

At 10:20 PM 3/8/99 , The Lion's Cub wrote:

>Ok, I guess my E-Mail system has not been list friendly, hopefully this will
>pass through as I think I have disabled the necessary things.  I am looking
>for a review on my web site at
>http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ridge/4618/ any comments are appreciated
>and thanks in advance for your help.

hello!
First of all, you have lots of unnecessary things on top and front page of
your site. All this stuff does is invite people away from you when you want
them to stay and visit YOUR site. You can put the Geobanner and the ILE
banner on the bottom. I would do that as it will make you front page better. 

I would make a separate page for the awards and place them all there
instead of crowding your front page with them.

Why do you have a link to the CDNow stuff? I have not found where you are
incorporating that or Amazon into your content. I would suggest that if you
are going to be in an associate program, use their content in cooperation
with yours. For example, perhaps you can find the top ten books and albums
from the different decades and have links to those books and albums on your
site for people to see and perhaps purchase. Otherwise, you don't do
anything but give these folks free advertising. Now if you really like
CDNow and Amazon and want to advertise them on your site, that is fine. I
would just do it in a less conspicuous place.

I liked the color scheme and the buttons. The buttons were the right size I
thought.

The wi_button.gif on your links page does not exist. It did not show up as
a broken link, but when I went to try and view it, I got a 404 message from
Geocities.

The layout was fine(except all the extra banner/ad stuff) and everything
loaded quickly for me. Good luck.


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