Re: Commercial Site: Please critique http://www.koolknitting.com

At 12:48 PM 12/26/2001 -0500, KoolKnitting(at)aol.com wrote:
>Hi there:
>
>I am very interested in hearing comments about my *commercial* site.  Any
>input or feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>
>http://www.koolknitting.com/index.htm

This page is very long and takes a while to load on my dial-up connection.

Please, double check spelling and do some proofreading and editing.  Example:
*The tassels that are attached to the scarve are luxuriant and add a 
definite elegant look to the scarf.* -- Sentences like this could be 
spell-checked, pruned and condensed for a more interesting read.

With the navigation surrounding the content, I think the logo is being 
overwhelmed. You may want to consider more color or something to help it 
stand out better while also incorporating it into the site. The scarf down 
the left combined with the top and left nav makes an interesting *frame* of 
sorts, but it leaves out the logo.

Your link on the side to Blue's Clues turns up a custom 404. Same with 
Olympics, so I'm guessing those pages aren't done yet?

Try to get more pictures like the one of the boy with the scarf. That one 
is so much better than the mannequin picture that keeps turning up.


>I am having trouble with a small area of white space at the top of the
>page(s) between the side navigation and bottom top-navigation gif.  The
>problem is only present, as far as I know, in NS 6.2.  I don't get the
>problem in NS 4.x or IE 5.0.

Netscape v. 6+ will render a page based on the DTD you use and you're not 
using one - well, not exactly either. N6 is it's own breed. See 
http://evolt.org/article/Does_Netscape_6_Break_Your_Table_Layouts/17/4427/index.html 
(watch wrapping). Try some of the tips in that article to eliminate that space.

Good luck -- good try, just keep tweaking, coding, trying!

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