re: critique request

Hi Loren,

Actually, I like the layout but you need to work on the implementation. I'd
make the home page the same layout at the rest of the site. You'll save
bandwidth and the site will look better, IMO. I'm not really a fan of splash
pages as they serve no real purpose. Furthermore the homepage seems to be
left justified while the others are sort of off-centered. Regardless of
whether you make the home page look like the rest, they should all be either
centered or left justified, not off-center.

Your roll-over image need to be refined a bit. They just don't seem to look
right.. not the same size or something.

Usually I'm not a fan of gray backgrounds but this seems to somehow work. I
like the color scheme.

The big problem I see with the whole site is that it's designed such that it
doesn't degrade to 800x600 resolution. You get a horizontal scroll bar. The
home page is the worst. with a fairly large side scroll. You should never
exceed overall fixed widths of 760 pixels if you want to degrade to 800x600
and never exceed 600 pixels if you wish to degrade to 640x480 res.

For instance your table on the home page is 860 pixels wide. That's a 100
over max right there. Heck, your spbanner.gif is 760 wide right there.

Another major No No on the Web is to change the size tags of an image to be
different from that image unless you're messing with painting backgrounds or
single pixel gifs for spacing. For example the gearspsp1.jpg image on the
home page has size tags of 100x550 while the image is actually 100x631. If
you wanted the image to be 500 high, you need to do that in Photoshop (or
whatever) prior to using it on your page. Maybe you did it to save bandwidth
because you've used it on the other pages correctly.

Maybe your instructor wanted those validation icons on the bottom of the
page, but I'd never do that on a real site. Those are tools for the
designer, and a total waste for the client. Visitors could care less whether
the page validates and don't even know what it means. Moreover, you don't
need extra invitations to leave a site.

about.html - impecible is supposed to be impeccable

I'd never use a java alert message to tell people there's not content.

Anyway, good luck with your endeavor. I think you have talent.

Craig T. Harding MS
Association of Computing Machinery - ACM
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers - IEEE
President - GuideNet.Net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Loren Quinn" <loren(at)quinntecentral.com>
To: <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 7:52 AM
Subject: critique request


> Greetinga All,
> Kindly a look at
http://www.quinntecentral.com/HTML2_Class/sprocketsxyz.html
> for a critique. This is a fictitious web site for the HTML 2 class.
> Kind Regards,
> Loren Quinn
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