Hi Lori,

Mozilla 1.1b, 
1600x1200 (browser canvas is roughly 1000x1000), 
Win2K
LAN connection

> http://www.maryoconnorart.com

I love the look and feel of this site.  It really does extrude an 
artistic sense that really fits in with the artist.

However (you knew that was coming, didn't you :o)  ), I have major 
reservations about using images to convey text -- especially since 
you don't have *any* alt tags in the site at all.  This seriously 
impairs accessibility to the site in text only browsers.  I looked at 
it in Lynx and all that I can see is the "site designed by..." and 
the copyright notice.

Ignoring that (and that's a big thing [IMO] to ignore) and looking at 
the galleries page, when you hover the mouse over the "Galleries" 
link, the pointer turns into the 'hand', normally signifying a link, 
but clicking doesn't do anything.  Maybe you could put in a link here 
that takes you to an intermediate page (maybe explaining more about 
the three sections).

The sections themselves are nice.  The galleries loaded quite fast 
for me, but I am on a university LAN connection, so am not really a 
good representative.  One problem that I have is that if you're 
scanning between images using the thumbnails, in the space between 
one thumbnail and the next, the big image reverts to the original 
image.  It would be nice if it retained the current image until you 
hovered over another one -- another one of these little usability 
things.

Sorry that it's been a bit negative, but the little things can be 
important, and remember that the site really does *look* nice.

Hope this helps,
Raj.
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Rajnish Bhaskar
r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk, http://lordofthemoon.com
IT Education Unit, University of Glasgow
http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/
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He has entered into the strange world of history...
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