Re: That movie channel site (again)

Interesting, the different comments, so, here's mine to toss in the mix:

The background on my monitor has a green cast to it.

The Buckeye logo is too big and the page does fall off the right on my 
800x600 too.

I just switched recently to a cable modem, wow, your page took a long time 
to load so I ran it through Bobby and it estimates almost 28 seconds on a 
28,800 modem. Your audience probably has much better connections, but it 
might be something to think about as you plan the new look.

I just peeked at the source -- MM on the image swaps? Is that Dreamweaver? 
You might want to try PPK's script from 
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/index.html then scroll down to miscellaneous 
scripts --> mouseover. His and Larry Coates' scripts are really fast, but 
I've lost the link to Dreamwolves (?) -- he's also on the HWG lists, so you 
may be able to find the link in the archives. Those scripts are very *light.*

IMO, the mouseover links in the middle are way too big and detract from the 
purpose of the site. I can imagine this should be more on the order of a 
television guide so the movie poster is good, but the MO links being front 
and center don't tell me what I want to watch /now/. Maybe it's just me, 
but that's why I use these things -- it's almost 10 p.m., what's on? If the 
title sounds interesting, then I'll want to read the review, maybe.

Now the proposed navigation scheme inside, like here: 
http://www.units.ohio-state.edu/moviechannel_new/schedule/index.html -- 
yes, I like that even if it also falls off the right side. It's large 
enough to help me find what I need, leaves space for the schedule to come, 
has a nice gradient background and seems more integrated than the one on 
the main page. Well, on my monitor, the green buckeye leaf does come 
awfully close to overpowering the letters on the logo.

And, congratulations on getting the chance to do this! It's already better!

8-)

Considering the awkwardness of the original site, I think you're definitely 
moving in the right direction with this.

Good luck!
<tamara />

At 02:31 PM 5/22/2001 -0400, welch(at)units.ohio-state.edu wrote:

>Hello, it's me, again -- she of the political situation with the marketing
>department.
>
>We had our big pow-wow, and the long and the short of it is that I can do
>whatever I want to with the movie channel site (yeah!), including dumping
>the color scheme and all of the graphics done by marketing.
>
>So, here I am, hat-in-hand again, asking for the informed opinions of my
>peers. The newest site is just begun -- I've hardly started loading
>content. I thought that, before I got too far, I'd get some opinions.
>
>Here's the latest:
>
>      http://www.units.ohio-state.edu/moviechannel_new/
>
>Here's the previous one I'd done, when my hands were still somewhat tied:
>
>      http://www.units.ohio-state.edu/moviechannel/
>
>And here's the old one done by marketing:
>
>      http://www.units.ohio-state.edu/old_moviechannel/
>
>Thank you all very much in advance.
>------------------------------------------------------
>Diane Welch, Webmaster
>UNITS, The Ohio State University
>(614) 688-8569
>http://www.units.ohio-state.edu
>webmaster(at)units.ohio-state.edu

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