Hi there,

><URL:http://Luther95.org/GLC-TFL>(the GLC-TFL must be 
>capitalized)and send me your comments. 

>This is my first site I have used Frontpage 98 to build 
>it but I do know how to code HTML 4.0. The site also 
>contains frames.

Not sure why you chose to use FP if you're able to code yourself? I also
don't think the frames are necessary for this site.

>If you would please comment on the following
>1.  General appearance.
>2.  Graphics placement and content.
>3.  Ease of navigation

Loaded quite quickly, good! The first thing I noticed was the logo/banner
at the top. It's extremely pixelly/jaggy. The words "grace" and "church"
appear distorted. Of course if this is the official logo there's not much
you can do, but try to get a better quality copy at least.

You have 4 different text colours on the home page. This is confusing.
Rather use one colour for copy, one for links, etc. I tried to click on
"Welcome" and "Grace Lutheran Church".

The buttons are all quite clear in meaning except for "musical notes" -
wasn't sure what to expect there. Didn't find out either, because you're
missing a table tag somewhere and Netscape won't render an incomplete
table.

I'm not sure why you chose to separate "who we are" and "more about us".
Consider consolidating them into one section with sub-sections.

"More about us" doesn't have the textured background, while "who are we"
has way too many font colours and faces. You need to be more consistent in
that respect. There's a huge gap in "President             Stan Ewanowski"
- I assume it's split over 2 TDs - rather use one TD and set colspan=2.

I notice other inconsistencies in look n feel such as the diverse bg
images and font styles on "what we offer", "happenings" etc. There are
plenty of good reasons for choosing one look/bg image/font style/ and
sticking with it. Download time, ease-of-use, etc. It also looks more
professional - otherwise you can end up with a site that looks as though
it was designed by a dozen people, each doing one page.

>4.  How does the site look using other browsers besides 
>MSIE?

I looked at with NC4.05/NT4. It looked fine, mostly. I suggest you
download some other browsers; you need to test as you go along, not find
out at the last minute that an essential element of your home page is only
supported by IE4.5632!

Some problems I assume are Netscape-specific:
- The text above your counter is all mooshed together for some reason.
- There's a line break after "We are the family of" on the home page.

Sorry, no time to look any further.

HTH
Lynnsey


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