Hi Eddy,

I'm really pleased to see that you're doing your HTML by hand! I think
this is the only way to do it. I've always coded by hand because when I
started, there were *no* wysiwyg tools, and I've never been able to get
into that way of doing it. Anyway, on to the review.

::home page::

Your link and vlink colours are the same - this is a little confusing when
trying to see where you've been and where you haven't. I would make the
vlink colour a slightly darker orange perhaps. Also, you've specificied
most of your colours using names ("black") instead of hex codes
("#000000"). Not all browsers recognise the colour names, so rather use
the hex codes.

The black bg looks quite good, especially with the orb in the header. I
think it would be just as effective (and more unusual) with a very dark
purpley-blue colour.

"Anything you want to say? Go ahead." should be a point on its own.

::faq::

I don't know if I would rightly call this a faq - are these really
frequently asked questions? If so, fine, but otherwise you might want to
change it to "about me" or something. Also, a list of the questions at the
top, hyperlinked to the relevant part of the page, would be nice - but not
essential.

I would also provide more of a visual link with the home page - it's not
obvious from the way the page looks, that it is part of the same site.
Perhaps carry the same colours throughout the site. Consistency is an
important part of user-friendliness. You should also provide navigation to
the other parts of your site. (These points apply to the site as a whole.)

::technical::

Comment the link out if it's not ready for public consumption!

::framed version::

The "remove all frames" option is a great idea and should be on every
frame-based site!

On my 640x480 browser window, the lhs navigation scrolled both down and to
the side and the effect of the pretty graphics was lost. I think that
frame needs to be a fair bit wider. I'm also not convinced that making
those images into a single imagemap is really necessary...

Sorry I didn't have time to review the other sections individually, but
see the second point under ::faq:: for my suggestions.

Generally one of the nicest (and most professional looking) sites I've
reviewed so far, congrats!

Lynnsey


Lynnsey Skliros
Mobile Telephone Networks

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