FW: Frames

I think that you certainly have succeeded in making your site both business
like and home like. I would tighten up the number of choices on your menu
frame. E-mail doesn't need to be there, it should be at the bottom of each
page. The guest book really only needs one button, the "view button" the
write option should be available from the view page. Some of the button
legends stick out beyond the edge of the graphic. I noticed this, maybe it
is not a problem, but I would fix it.

The Frame is quite acceptable to me. It is more appropriate on your site,
than on mine, where being lazy, I use it anyway.
Your index page *should* have all of your links shown in the <NOFRAMES>
section, so this ought not to bother a search engine: But your site, as a
commercial catalog, really is not that concerned with a search engine. Nor
are you really concerned by the viewers' inability to bookmark a certain
page. It is not like you had scholarly content that needed to be found by
search engines, or would need a book mark back to a particular page.

While I do not like music on WebPages, your music is tasteful, does not seem
to delay page loadings, and in addition to even running while I write this,
seems to add to the kind of site that you are running.

Your splash page is nice, but takes up too much vertical space: I have extra
screen space taken up by my Icon Tray, other users do too.  I think that I
would incorporate the content into the top of the first frame, and omit the
splash page.

Overall, I give you good marks for a nice site.

Br. Elias

-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org] On
Behalf Of Jan Flood
Sent:	Wednesday, June 30, 1999 07:41
To:	hwg-critique(at)mail.hwg.org
Subject:	Re: Frames

We have been working on making our website more business-like without losing
the personal touch and used frames.  I recently read an article that
mentioned frames should not be used - then last week there was a critique
which commented on how the use of frames affected the abilities of search
engines.  Could someone please post again with this information, we may go
back to using a border.  Thanks!
If you view the site, be forewarned, there is music. I know, I know, :) I'm
taking it off when I make some needed changes. Visit our farm at
http://www.oakridgefarm.com
Jan Flood  oakridge(at)windo.missouri.org
"If you can't find the time to do it right, how will you find the time to do
it over?"

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