Hi Emily,

> It's at: http://www.creativend.com/
> 
> Some of the links are bad, and not all the alt tags are there...

Mozilla 1.8a2+, Win2K, 1600x1200.  IE6 as well

* The colour scheme is nice with decent contrast and it does make 
me think "artist" :).

* The front page looks very empty.  It leaves me with a sense of 
"what now?".  Some sort of indication of what the site was about 
would be good.

* Is there some server-side browser sniffing going on, since IE6 
gets a Flash intro to the front page (srHome.html) and Mozilla 
gets a static one (srHome.php), although to be honest, I prefer 
the static one, since waiting for the Flash animation to load 
every time you go back to the homepage is just annoying.

* It took me a while to realise that the circle with "art" in it 
was a link

* On the Art pages, it took a while to figure out what the 
numbers next to each word (tulips, pears etc) were since in your 
stylesheet you have .xsmYellowBody {... ; cursor: auto; ...;}
This has the effect of making the cursor a normal "I-bar" when 
you hover over the numbers, making it difficult to realise that 
they are links.
If you remove "cursor: auto;" rule it should work fine in Mozilla 
and Internet Explorer.

* There is a horizontal scroll bar on the Art pages for no 
apparent reason.  This shows up in both Mozilla and IE6

* I'm not sure what the Print section is for, 

* There is a lack of consistant way of getting back to the 
homepage -- there's the artist's name, a "home" button and these 
are in different places on different pages.  Maybe this could be 
made consistant.

Sorry if this has sounded negative, but it was all meant to be 
constructive :o).

HTH,
Raj.
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Rajnish Bhaskar, Technical officer
IT Education Unit, University of Glasgow
r.bhaskar(at)educ.gla.ac.uk, http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/
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