Great Danes site

Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 02:07:52 +1000
From: Craig Harcombe <webmaster(at)greatdane.com.au>

Hi everyone, Craig here taking the plunge for the first time<G>

I'd appreciate some feedback on http://www2.one.net.au/~riesig/
It's a Great Dane site and therefore has a lot of photos on it, let me
have it!

This is a plunge for me too ;-) 'Tis my first go at posting a critique.

Love the way you've done the titles, Craig. Overall, it's an aesthetically
pleasing site with good navigation.

I'm new to designing and creating, have been using the internet and the Web
for about three years, and I have gone in search of information about
specific cats and dogs on the internet. I couldn't help but wonder whether
you breed and sell? Somewhere, tucked away on many sites are a couple links
to direct folks who are looking for information on temperament, judging a
potential animal for purchase or buying one - that might be something for
you to consider. You may even want to make your opening page more explicit
so I'd know right off the bat it was sort of a home page for one who loves
and shows the animals?

I'm on a PowerMac 9600/300 64MB RAM 33.6 modem

1101 EST USA, 40 seconds to load
NNC 4.0.4 PowerMac 9600/300, 64MB RAM, 33.6 modem
If interested in great danes, I'd wait<G> Gorgeous photo and neat text ;-)
If I were trying to locate specific information or locate a breeder, I
might get pretty antsy and move on to the next page listed by the search
engine.

When surfing, I'll put up with "Enter here" - when returning to seek
information, or researching for something specific, it drives me NUTS, if
I've got a whole batch of possibilities, I'll leave if there's a long
download time.

For the fun of it, I switched to 256 colors, uncorrected gamma on your
"intro/html" - understandably darker, but still pleasing<g> The page loaded
quickly, considering all the jpegs
The turquoise or aqua links look great on the background. For me, the white
serif font is harder to read than a san serif would be. I'm going back to
the default "Mac Standard Gamma Correction" and "millions of colors" <g>

FYI - when shifting to Edit Page in order to see the HTML, for a moment, I
saw your pictures on the standard gray background and they looked much
better? While yours is a very artistic background, with 256 colors, I
couldn't see the "Riesig" and the lighter background seems to focus my
attention more on the pictures?

On loredana.html - appreciate the bottom page links to "next" and "index"
You might want to consider adding a previous for those of us who dive into
the middle are rewarded and want to explore in either direction.

Thanks - for the introduction to Australian Great Danes,
Joan Gillen
jgillen(at)earthlink.net
not yet ready for prime time: http://home.earthlink.net/~jgillen

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