Re: annas-soaps: THANKS

re: www.annas-soaps.com

I wanted to thank everyone for the comments. I have implemented some, and 
sent the rest on to the owner for her consideration.

To answer a few questions...

The font used in the title graphics is University. What's funny is that I 
tried to talk her out of that font. *G* It's relatively common, and one of 
a small handful of fonts that even *I* can name on sight. I believe I said 
something to her during the original development about did she really want 
to use a font that I'd just seen the night before used in the end-credits 
on a bad tv movie, and had recognized. She insisted. Oddly, now that the 
site is done, I like it. It fits. I never would have chosen it myself, but 
it works.

There is a form for contacting the owner for comments or orders on the 
site. Hopefully I've made that a little easier to find. I've explained the 
trouble to her, and she'll think over the situation. Unfortunately, a full 
e-commerce solution is not really plausible at the moment. I believe that, 
to date, she has received only two orders via the site, and that just 
doesn't justify the costs. ;)  (It's been up for about 6 months now, but I 
had just completely reworked the code and wanted some feedback while I was 
in revision mode.) We've mentioned the paypal solutions to her, and she's 
still kicking around ideas. In the meantime, she wanted the site up while 
she contemplates.

Thanks for the compliments I received. This has been a fun site to work on, 
not least of all because I have received some of her soaps in addition to 
payment, for myself and as gifts to family (she fulfilled a good percentage 
of my Christmas list *g*). What a great job this has been! It's nice to 
work on a site where I know the products well.

Thanks again.

Jeniffer
OffLead Productions


At 07:22 AM 3/16/2001, Gilbert Midonnet wrote:
>Nice layout. Good feel.
>
>two quick things:
>
>Your nav bar goes below the fold on a 800x600: tighten up the line height, 
>bring up the nav so that Home lines up with that soap graphic. Anything -- 
>just bring all your nav elements above the fold.
>
>Make your text graphics smaller. By that I mean crop out all white space 
>around the word. Use html to space the graphics. on /specials.shtm that 
>text graphic "Special Offers" is way too big: 454x130, yikes.
>
>Nice font by the way.
>
>Your graphics have a clickable feel. See if you can link them somewhere. A 
>landing page with more info, or go directly to a sales list.
>
>
>--glm
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