>http://www.cdscomputer.com)

Hi Natalie

I visited you workplace site and have a few comments. All comments are IMHO.

1. On the first page you have scrolling (marquee) text on a yellow
background. I say kick it. It is distracting and IMO tacky and
unprofessional.

2. Same goes for the flashing 'weekly special/order now' gif. Far too
distracting.

3. I would also throw out the counter, as it is never good for your
clients/visitors to know how few people have visited your site :-)

4. I would put on the first page one paragraph succinctly describing what
you do. It doesn't matter you go into full in another page - it just means
someone who visits can see immediately what you do, where, what you stock,
etc. I rarely stay at a site if I can't figure out what they do or what the
purpose is about after 2-3 clicks. Such an introduction helps avoid this.

5. I would remove the frames, they aren't really needed. If you must keep
them, then at least remove the border between them. You might also give some
space between the CDS logo and the top of the browser - its jammed right on
the top.

6. If you remove all the animations and marquee's, then a page can be a
little dead. To counter this I would have rollovers for the menu and links.
This gives a non-intrusive and simple feeling of interactivity, and a little
life.

7. The main text font is great! I always think arial or verdana looks best
for a corporate page. However, in your code you have specified only arial.
Some OS/browsers will not have that font, so I suggest adding verdana,
helvetica and sans-serif to the font list. It gives the browser more choice
for backup in case it doesn't have arial.

8. The graphics are well optimised for size, though you could probably shave
a little more off, but this certainly isn't a problem.

9. You had no doctype at the top of your pages. A doctype tells the browser
and other user agents what standard of HTML was used to create the page. You
can get a doctype from w3 [1].

10. Maybe a few pictures of staff, premises, products would liven it up a
bit.

Well, I think thats enough to keep you busy for a while :-)

HTH

Cheers

Sebastian

[1] http://www.w3.org/

Win95
MSIE4
600x800 res with 32-bit colour
28.8 dialup from New Zealand
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