RE: http://hmex.net

On your lead page: the fill at the right makes the text look like it is
floating. Those falling banners have got to go. If banners are necessary,
ok, but let them set there about 15 seconds or more so they can be read, and
then just change them without them falling of the page. That fading text
near the top is also annoying.

On the Home health page, reading it at 800 pixels makes the lines too long,
the eye does not know where to go when it gets to the end and then must
trace the line back to the start before catching the next one. 400 pixels is
long enough for a line of text. put in a photo or something. Loose the table
and replace it with a graph, something eye catching and that conveys your
information without having to be analyzed. The long page needs anchors and
links at the top to speed people to the paragraphs that they need.

What's new this week is much better with line lengths and use of graphics.
Some date back more than One Week, maybe just call it "What's New" . Also
needs Anchors and Links.

Needs better organization on the Exchange page. Too busy with two columns.
The eye cannot settle in on place, so the finger clicks the mouse.

Manufactures Links on a three frame page. (Gack)  I'd use one page, put the
index links on top, and the lists of links lower as anchors.

I see you have  your work cut out for you. None of the presentations are
uniform. there is no theme for the site. Even the home page is rather busy
looking.  I leave busy pages very quickly.

Br. Elias (RN)



-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org] On
Behalf Of Craig T. Harding
Sent:	Saturday, July 17, 1999 19:40
To:	HWG Critique List
Subject:	http://hmex.net

Hello fellow members. I just need a few folks to take a quick peek at a
site. It's an old site that is due for a rebuild. It is way too big on
the front-end and takes too long to load, but the client wanted lots of
things. I've make a few changes trying to speed things up by
re-compressing some images and removing some.

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