I forgot to mention...

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On 8/31/98, at 3:45 PM, Lynnsey Skliros wrote: 

>Hello,
>
>I think the biggest problem is the lack of consistency throughout the
>site. Rather than using every bg image you can find, stick with one. It
>also reduces download time because the image is cached.
>
>The other problem I have is the way the poem indexes load over the
>navigation. Look at it this way: once you've clicked on one of the poetry
>sections, which is more useful to you: the introduction? or the top-level
>navigation? Definitely not the intro - most people *might* read it once -
>few will read it more than once. It would be far more useful to have the
>top-level navigation available - that's one of the main reasons for using
>frames, after all.
>
>	Home page
>
>If you're going to use frames on the home page, you must at the *very*
>least include the <noframes> tag for people with browsers that don't
>render frames.
>
>I don't think the backgrounds work very well - they're rather garish.
>Also, the purpose of a seamlessly tiling background is rather lost when
>you chop it into little pieces by putting it into separate little frames.
>The blue-red bg is also rather too busy. The text is difficult to read
and
>made more so by the small font and use of italics. I recommend you pick a
>few colours that look nice together and stick with those, rather than
>using the entire spectrum. Choose colours with good contrast, that won't
>cause retinal damage to anyone looking at your site for more than 10
>seconds!
>
>Actually, looking at the content, the frames are rather superfluous - the
>intro, links and copyright notice (which hardly warrants a frame of its
>own) could easily go into one page with very little scrolling.
>
>And the image on the main frame is broken.
>
>	Love and loving
>
>Once you've clicked there's nothing to tell you which section you're in.
I
>don't like the bg, but it's the best so far - it doesn't make the text
>illegible. The poems themselves should be left-aligned rather than
centred
>which is difficult to read - your eye has to look for the beginning of
>every line.
>
>	Death and loss
>
>Most of the above applies here too. The contrast between the bg and text
>colours is good but the rotating skull is rather cheesy IMO.
>
>	Thoughts...
>
>The shell pic would look much better on a white bg or with the white
>surround made transparent (although it may still keep an obvious halo on
a
>non-white bg). See Love section.
>
>	Humour
>
>The white text is hard to read on the light bg. See Love section.
>
>	Submit a poem
>
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> I'm not sure
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>Hope this helps!
>
>Lynnsey
>
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>On 8/31/98, at 2:16 PM, Shing Khor wrote: 
>
>>Hi, 
>>	I'd like to request a critique for this poetry site; it's been run
>through
>>this list before but I've done some changes; mostly deleting parts that
>>caused error messages. Feel free to add any comments about the
>>categorisation of poetry; and anything else. And I would also like to
>know
>>if any of you would think that a non frames version of this site could
be
>>made without multiple tables slowing the page down. That's all, thanks
>and
>>hope to hear from you soon.
>>
>>The Poetry Station
>>http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/6620/frpoetry.html
>
>Lynnsey Skliros
>Mobile Telephone Networks
>
>The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you
>pour upon it, the more it will contract. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Lynnsey Skliros
Mobile Telephone Networks

The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you
pour upon it, the more it will contract. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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