www.wellsboroalumni.com (Critique)

Hello Tom,

>From the top, Tom ... scrap the for best viewing junk, it look
unprofessional and tacky, especially when you are undecisive about it.  You
shouldn't tell people what to use to view your pages, it's like telling them
what to wear ...

Is that Green the school colours?  If so I can understand it's use,
otherwise ... trash it.  That floating bee is annoying and distracting ...
as I am trying to read your page, it keep taking my focus away ...  I also
noted that the bees are rather blocky, try atialiasing them to smooth them
out.

You choice of navigation is poor, I would rather have easy to click buttons
than a drop down menu.

Drop those flashing eyes please, eewwww :)  It makes the page look cheap.

After the eyes, you have a lot of blank space and then a left aligned image
that's not showing up.  (Right above "started 6/7/98")

Then a couple more blank lines and you copyright.  If I were an alumus and I
went this page, I would be very disappointed.  It looks far to haphazard.
You need to tighten up the page and provide some easier navigation ...

On to page two ...

The Alumni page ... I would break up the decades into separate pages, too
much scrolling for me ... if not that then some sort of navigation back to
the of each the decade for each section is a must.  I would also suggest a
stronger division between each year, I found it hard to scroll through and
see the years clearly.  The colour scheme doesn't help much, it's hard to
read.  Why are you using a different shade of green for the background.

Almuni Council ...

Okay different shade of green again, lose the three copies of the bee
button, you no longer have "Select your page below..." showing on you drop
down menu (it is now the second item) all you get is a blank line.  A web
page needs to have consistency and theme to be enjoyable.

The Almuni Form ...

Too garish all that white space in the green hurts my eyes ... next ...

Links around town ... again the missing "Select your page below..." another
shade of green and really boring ... you need to spice up the links page a
bit ... maybe even put them into categories for easier navigation ...

Photo Page ... see above re: drop down meny.  The only thing I don't like
about you thumbnails is that they aren't all the same size ... it make you
page look unbalanced.

Alumni Home Pages ... same drop down menu problem ... oh yeah these were on
another page too ... I really don't like those flashing bullet ... they are
too overpowering because there are too many of them ...

Well I think that's all for now ... (I am sure you wouldn't want to hear any
more ...)

Over all ... make some nice navigation buttons, lose the drop down menus,
animated bullets and bars, clean up the pages for consistency and style, and
match you colour scheme and you will have a great site.

I hope I wasn't too hard on you ... I just feel the best criticism is the
honest kind ... I want you to have a great site.  Let me know if you have
any questions ... be glad to answer them ...

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Robert Couture
V.P. Internet Technologies & Resources
A. S. P. Technologies, Inc.

"The Web Artist"
mailto:rob(at)web-artist.com
http://www.web-artist.com (Needs replacing)
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> Please critique my site located at www.wellsboroalumni.com
> thank you,
> tom
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