RE: Commercial and Not-For-Profit web site critique request...

Robert...

Who's site are you critiquing? WebWham and Williamsburgh are mine, not
Bonnie's... Are your comments directed at these sites, or are you performing
a critique on something of Bonnie's and just getting the thread out of order
here?

If the comments are about WebWham and Williamsburgh, as I mentioned to
Bonnie, I will look at them at 640x480 to see if there is anything quick
that can be done to resolve the need to horizontally scroll. However, I will
not be redesigning the sites to exclusively support viewability at this low
resolution (at the expense of making things too small for larger, more
popular format viewing).

BTW, the Williamsburgh site is best viewed at 16bit colour depth (or
greater), due to the number of photos and images on the site. The less than
average number of 256 colour depth systems viewing the site will not be
disappointed until they reach the photos.


Gil Tennant
Webmaster at WebWham
http://www.webwham.com

Designing fine sites like the Williamsburgh Community Web Site -
http://www.williamsburgh.org



-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Harrold [mailto:rharrold(at)harrold.org]
Sent: Monday, August 03, 1998 11:40 AM
To: Bonnie Granat; webmaster(at)webwham.com
Cc: hwg-critique(at)hwg.org
Subject: Re: Commercial and Not-For-Profit web site critique request...


> The need to scroll to the right made me leave
> immediately. (640 x 480).
> Sorry!
>
> webmaster wrote:
> >
> > They've been up for a while, and I've had great comments from
> visitors to
> > the sites, just wanted another professional's opinion...
> >
> >         http://www.webwham.com  Our NEW "little company" site
> - load time is slow
> > here due to the large number of GIF images on the left (nav
> buttons). The
> > pages are faster once you get past the first page as the only
> thing to
> > change is the banner graphic, the GIF nav button for the page
> itself, and
> > the content on the page. I need to drastically reduce the
> load time on
> > Prod/Serv - now, how to do without losing clarity.
> >
> >         http://www.williamsburgh.org    This is a community
> web site we maintain. I
> > may change the background (getting tired of it, and it's been
> up since Oct.
> > '97). The community loves this one and it's pretty fast and
> browser friendly
> > for the most part..
> >
> > Let me know what you think needs improvement (other than
> what's already
> > mentioned above).
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Gil Tennant
> > Webmaster at WebWham
> > http://www.webwham.com
> >
> > Creating fine web sites like the Williamsburg Community Web
> Site:
> > http://www.williamsburgh.org
>
> --
> Bonnie Granat
> Technical Writing, Editing, & Consulting
> bgranat(at)lynx.dac.neu.edu
> http://lynx.dac.neu.edu/b/bgranat/index.html

Bonnie,

The first page loaded the text & layout in 29 seconds, with the total
page, graphics and all, finishing completely at 49 seconds.

Your main body of text cuts of (requires scrolling to the right) beyond the
74th character on a line.   Why not simply end each line, continueing onto
the next at around 65 or 70?  Then now one would have to scroll back'n
forth, back'n forth, in order to read the text.

Since you have several sections relating to different topics down the
page, why not put a line across the top of the page that can be clicked
that'll jump visitors down the page to the indicated topic?

Didn't have time to go beyond.

I'm using 100mhz Pentium
                     32mb Ram
                     28.8 modem/avg'd. 2.3kb throughput
                     640x480x256 on an old !BM 16"
                    Opera v.3.21 browser, font Times New Roman, Regular, 10
- --
Robert F. (Bob) Harrold II
rharrold(at)harrold.org -or- rharrold(at)juno.com
http://www.harrold.org/rfhextra.html
ICQ UIN # 3257495
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