Re: Critique Request: Biz Site!

by "Sebastian de Raadt" <sderaadt(at)clear.net.nz>

Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 1998 20:01:25 +1200
To:	"The Hailey-Davis Residence" <hailedav(at)erols.com>, "HWG-Critique" <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
	todo: View Thread, Original

>I am requesting a critique of my fledgling web design site at
http://www.dewinc.com.

Hi Preston and the list

I visited your site, and recall critiquing it before. From memory, not much
has changed, but since I was there and since it is quite a nice site, I
thought I would do it again :-)

1. The splash page is new, and I like it, especially, the rollovers (I love
rollovers of almost any sort :-).

2. Maybe you could do some more rollovers, such as in the bottom frame menu,
and the sidemenu on the rest of the site. Such rollovers are easy using
CSS/JavaScript. Post the -language list, visit a page in my site [1] or use
this CSS [2].

3. The STI logo is still jagged and unclear. I'm sure you can do better!

4. I like the webdesign graphic/montage very much.

5. Just something I noticed, the use of the term 'web' for a website (as in
'business web') is, (I'm not sure about this) not correct, or at least
doesn't, IMHO, sound correct or very good. To me it conflicts/overlaps with
'the Web'(WWW).

6. You state, "(Using industry standard Image Compression Techniques). ".
What are those standard Image Compression Techniques? JPEG? GIF? And why the
captilised first-letter?

7. The dolphin image on most pages, though a very nice touch, is repeated
over many pages. Maybe a selection of nice images over the different pages
would be nice?

8. IMHO there should only ever be one menu on a page. It is too confusing to
have more. It is alright to repeat the same menu at the bottom of a long
page (though better to put a 'back to top' link). Things like your client
list should be in the left menu.

9. Maybe the 'standard features' of your websites could be incorporated into
each of the package descriptions. It just makes the list of features longer
and more impressive. It also avoids having to load another page or
save/print two pages.

>Platform: What OS are you on?

Win95

>Client: What browser(s) did you use? with what results?

IE4, excellent results.

>Connection Speed: What type (speed) modem are you using?

28.8 dialup from New Zealand

>Download Times: How fast/slow do the pages download?

Quite fast, better than average. The graphics were also quite well
optimised.

>Navigation: Is it easy/difficult to follow?

Not bad, see above for details.

>Content: Does it make sense?

Yes. Well organised and clearly presented.

>Priority Tasks: What should be my first concern?

Top left logo.

Well...HTH :-)

Cheers

Sebastian


[1] http://www.rh.steiner.school.nz/welcome.html
[2] In your <head> section, put this:
        <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
        <!--
        A { text-decoration : none; color : #AAAAAA; }
        A:hover { text-decoration : underline; color : #FF0000; }
        -->
        </STYLE>
        Play with the colours and styles til you like the result.

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