Re: Website Critique

As I wander I'll make point form notes.

The flash 6 upgrade pop ups are extremely, I say again extremely annoying. 
I have to say no twice just to get the home page to load. I don't see 
anything in your flash that can't be done publishing it as 4 or 5. I 
believe the latest stats are that only 30-40% of visitors will have 6 
installed whereas it's 90+% with 5 or 4. 
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/survey/whitepaper/page11.html#appendixI

I was surprised at the comment about alt tags and text only browsers.... 
who would visit a site presenting visual art with a text only browser ? ? ?

I find the home page somewhat busy... too much text... you don't yet know 
why I have arrived and there's all this content you want me to read. Most 
of the planet is still viewing at 800600 and home pages should not scroll 
at that res. Move most of the text inside the site.

You've got this very nice set of fades as the feature graphic... and I 
wonder what the purpose of slice_lady.jpg is...

The quick gallery links should  open pop up windows sized to frame the 
artwork...

Let's pretend I'm a visitor to the site... what I see excites me... and I 
am looking to commission work for the corporate board room, whatever... why 
can't I telephone the artist to discuss it...

I don't know how you pitch your services to prospective clients... but if 
marketing expertise is a big part of it... placing a link to your own site 
on a client's site really dilutes your credibility... and replacing the 
client site with your own in the same window just adds insult to injury. 
The client site is all about the client's business and only the client's 
business... period.

out of time
Steve

At 07:23 PM 7/29/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>The sites are:
...
>http://www.maryoconnorart.com
>http://www.lolamediadesign.com
...
>Any comments will help but I am interested in the technical,
>user-friendliness, marketing and creative values of the sites.  Feel
>free to comment on any slow loading or superfluous items in your
>opinion.  I would be interested to hear feedback on the gallery pages -
>as the thumbnail images contain rollovers which take longer to load - I
>am not sure if the interactivity is apparent due to this.
...
>Lori

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