RE: CRITIQUE REQUEST: Splash and Main Page of New Design for Non-Profit Website

Kevin,
  I have to agree... get rid of the name prompt.  It took 57 seconds to
load. I have a 56 k connection, and I didnt see that much content on there
that should have taken that long except that humongous banner at the top.
  Next on the splash page, both of your paragraphs are one sentence long.
The first paragraph has enough info in it to break it up to about 3
sentences.

OH my, the main page took 100 seconds to fully load.  Maybe your server is
slow? While you have a lot of graphics on the page, It shouldnt have taken
that long.  Are the question marks after your links really required?  To me
they seem unnecessary, add to the d/l time, and actually detract from the
page since they are not all directly after a link.

The basic layout is nice, it is easy to read.

I am using IE 4, at 800X600 resolution
HTH
:-)
Bob


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of Kevin Michael Reed
Sent: Monday, June 08, 1998 10:52 AM
To: hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
Subject: CRITIQUE REQUEST: Splash and Main Page of New Design for
Non-Profit Website


Dear Fellow Critics:

I have finally finished the first two pages of my redesign for Get Involved
Online, one of our organization's websites.

I was wondering if you could please critique these pages:
http://www.get-involved.com/new-site/
I only need the index.shtml and main.shtml pages critiqued as all other
pages that are linked to are just templates.

I especially would like to see how different browsers view the pages,
because I am using several technologies I have never used before (i.e. CSS1,
JavaScript - well I've used it, but not like this).

BTW, you don't have to be easy on me - I can take the pain - even though
I've spent the past week tweaking these two pages. :-)

Thank you and I look forward to your critiques...

Sincerely,

Kevin M. Reed

P.S. Again the URL is:  http://www.get-involved.com/new-site/

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Students That Care, Incorporated
An AIDS Awareness and Prevention Organization
4 Squire Lane
Post Office Box 3129
Stony Creek, Connecticut 06405-1729
Phone:  (203) 481-1440
Fax:      (203) 481-7634
Email:    kmreed(at)stc-inc.org

Webstites:
www.stc-inc.org / www.get-involved.com / www.aidsnews.net

President:  Kevin Michael Reed

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