RE: Please critique

Kathy,

First, when it comes to web pages and critiques, you need to leave the ego
at the door.  I know otherwise, my ego would have been smashed to bits long
ago :-)

critique:
splash page:

need work on alt tags.  People who are blind cant see the graphics and this
info tells them what the graphic shows.

the phone numbers need consistency.  one has all periods as seperators and
the other has a mix of  parenthesis and dashes.

This is debatable but I think the title should be the co. name, not services
offered.  Show the services offered down in the graphic.

Main page... again the telephone dividers are not consistent.  BC is british
columbia?  what is ab?

I see the graphic, but I have to scroll and I dont see why.  I have been to
two pages and seen the same thing on both pages...but no content.

About Us:    OK, I am guessing you are pitching your sales to the average
joe.  I dont know about others, but I dont care how many mils the siding is.
I also dont care what the building code is.  I want to know you will do
reliable work with reliable products.  All that other stuff is like
listening to a mechanic tell you in technical terms why something is
clicking.  This needs to be brought down to a consumer's level. A tiny nav
bar at the bottom.  As you are using frames and your nav bar on the left
never moves, this is superfluous, not to mention they are in a totally
different order than the frame nav bar.

Canaopies:  Again, alt tags need to be corrected.  No content on this page.
I see no reason to visit it. Nav bar..same as above.

Eavestroughs:  What is a facia?   Nav bar is now gone replaced by a
different nav bar.  Right column first item on the list, is not spaced the
same as the rest.  I can not read the cartoon. Same tiny nav bar, same
thoughts as above.

Galleries:  What are the different galleries?  Need to label these (alt tags
and nav bar etc...)

Railings:  What is AAMA 630.8? Why do I need to know that? What are the
stock colors?

Screen Doors:  What am I doing here?  I see one graphic and no info.

Vinyl Decking.  Cartoon looks sarcastic.  I see a hot tub/whirl pool (never
did understand the difference between the two).  Where is the decking and
info about it?

Contact:  I was expecting a contact page.. instead it was a direct link to
email... should have this providing business address, phone bnumbers, a
persons name, and a link for email.

I didnt go into the galleries.

Kathy underswtand none of this is a personal attack.  this is my best
professional opinion (although I do not consider myself a professional.)
This site needs alot of work, but has potential.  One good thing I found in
the places I visited in the site, was good loading times, but I have a 56k
connection so that may be misleading.

One last thing... I noticed no doc type.  You may want to include one for
future use incase you ever want to validate.

Atticus Longwalker
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-critique(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Kathy Siddall
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 9:51 PM
> To: hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Please critique
>
>
> This is the first time I have put a site, along with my ego, out for
> criticism.
>
> Please tell me what you think of:
> http://www.marathonltd.com
>
> There are many! more images and text pages to be added so it is far from
> complete.
>
> Yes it was done in Front Page per the client's request.
>
> TIA
>
>

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