Re: DJDatabase homepage

Hi Nick,

I went to the site and didn't have my speakers on. Do you have sound there too?

The flash did take a while to load and I'm not sure you really need the 
effect with the way you have it laid out now.

I don't get the background on that main flash page. Your links are huge, 
but the mouseovers work nicely. I really like your DJD logo -- that is 
very, very nice.

I'm on Win95, 800x600, 45k or so dial-up, NN 4.5 -- Wow, those words above 
the DJ registration form are REALLY BIG and, with the dark blue background, 
the black type is still hard to read. On the portfolio page -- I like the 
link colors, those show up nicely.

You may want to reconsider your frames. I just clicked a *book* link off 
the portfolio page -- perhaps you should try it too. I think if you tried, 
you could do this with tables and SSIs. The very bottom portion may be 
difficult, but most of it would work pretty well, I think, in a table 
rather than a frameset. Now, I know there are those that hate, despise, 
loathe frames, but in some circumstances, I do believe they are a good 
thing. But, you are dealing with two disparate audiences -- the DJs and 
their potential clients. This may not be the best place for a frame-heavy 
presentation.

As far as your query about adding DJs -- there are form processors such as 
the one at http://www.bignosebird.com/ that may be able to offer some help. 
This form processor will write to a file that could be imported into MS 
Access. It's not ideal, but could be a short-term solution until you get 
perl and/or php running and writing to a database like MySQL (which is 
where I'm heading one of these days).

Good luck!
Tamara

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