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Hi Lindsay and the list

I check out your site, and have a few comments, all IMHO of course.

1. On your splash page, do you have to have the xoom ad? It invites the
visitor to leave!

2. I like splash pages, but I thought you could make a little more of it.
Put a few lines as a basic introduction, so the visitor knows immediately
what this site is about. Maybe some DHTML would whet the visitors appetite.
 (sp?).

3. On the Main page (and all the others too) I get a js error.

line 47, char 4, 'document.legalLyr.left' is not an object

 on the pricing page, same error, line 44, char 4

4. There is no conventional scrolling. Instead you have interesting
navigation buttons. They are a good idea, but...

    a) When I clicked them they and the page flickered a lot, but didn't
scroll nicely.

    b) I get a horrible non anti-aliased single line border (not the red
'glow' - that was nice) around them when I click.

    c) While I was clicking them, the whole image map tended to select
itself (went blue). That made it difficult to see the buttons. Because you
seem to be using layers, that messes up selection/deselection, so I had to
reload the page.

    Maybe make them bigger for a start? Maybe separate them into 3 images?

5.  The large homemade tooltip with the shadow was irritating, and straddled
the right border of he content table - looking out of place. Maybe smaller
and in a more predictable spot, like under the nav buttons.

6. The show/hide button on the left came up with same js error. What does
that button do? If you do have a tooltip, make it descriptive.

7. I liked the clean design, the colours and the font. Maybe the grey
background is a little boring though.

8. At 640x480 res the nav buttons were lost and no scrolling was available.

9. The code looked good, so I didn't try to validate.

HTH

Cheers

Sebastian

Win95
MSIE4
600x800 (and 640x480) res with 32-bit colour
28.8 dialup from New Zealand
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