Thank you Heather for your impeccable insight! 

I have made appropriate adjustments to the imperfections that you pointed
out! [1]

I have been fooling around with Microsoft's Merlin lately, let me know what
think. http://peterszaro.com/html/index_ma.htm { Will take some time to
load, on slow connections, but well worth it, IMHO! }

-------------------
Peter Szaro

[1] Currently revising the 'Resume' page as well as the 'Flash Rendition'
page.

-----Original Message-----
From: H. G. Quinn [mailto:hgquinn(at)attglobal.net]
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 10:27 AM
To: Szaro, Peter
Cc: 'hwg-critique(at)hwg.org'
Subject: Re: http://peterszaro.com


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Excellent design, great content.  Checked it in NN 4.77, Mozilla build 0.9,
IE
5.01.

My quibbles, all my own POV and opinions:

In NN 4.77, the H in Home is left-chopped by about 4 px, and all but the
last
vertical separator are lost.  Why not a navbar style, with a left margin of
at
least 1 em, and font faces, size and bolding?

Your alternative page links are in such a pale grey that many people will
ignore
them.  Similarly the current date, which is more obvious because of its
placement
and font size, but still easy to overlook.

Why web sites for "people and/or businesses".  Why not people and
businesses, or
personal and business sites?  Sounds as if you're not quite sure.  If
referencing
your site design business from your front page, why not spiff up that site?

Overkill?  Last paragraph on resume page mentions the word certification
very
often, and then you have a separate page that lists your certs in detail
with
logos.

Your intro1.swf movie doesn't load from the page under NN 4.77, and Enter
doesn't
retain focus long enough for an easy click to actually enter, under any
browser.

Why put your picture gallery under lock and key?  This adds to your human
interest, and I'd think you'd want everyone to be able to access it.  If
there
are private pix or family stuff there, that could be a subsection of your
gallery, with security applied.  If you're using it to get more info about
visitors, since you're not a famous photographer you are in effect filtering
for
people who already know you or those who are inordinately curious.  The
first
group is fine, the second maybe not.

I agree with Nerotik, if you espose having being able to code HTML in
Notepad,
why would you put up a resume site developed w/Frontpage (and why aren't you
using CSS more extensively?)?

The faketake function may be cute for other web developers, but if you have
a
non-tech like an exec or a human resources person visiting your site, he or
she
may be appalled and dismiss all thought of hiring you.  What is the purpose
of
disabling right-click?  It's unfriendly, at the very least, and could lead
some
to presume that if you were to work under them, they might have problems
managing
you, as you might be predisposed to secrecy and backdoor hacking.  Same is
true
of your echoing back the user's IP.  Doesn't using these functions in this
particular setting say more about your attitude than about your skills?  You
might want to move your JS to a page that purports to teach people things.
Have
your cake and eat it too ;-).

"Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors!
:-)"
is too-too cute, IMHO.  Similarly, "Netsucks" is appropriate for a mailing
list
or chat room, but for a resume site??  Suppose a prospective employer or
contractee works for a Time-Warner/AOL division (increasingly likely these
days),
or really believes in NN?  (Many corporate people support NN because it
gives
them a sophisticated mail client that doesn't allow virus or worm
execution.)

>From my POV, the one negative thing about your site is that there are too
many
individual instances where you put showing your knowledge ahead of the
impression
you are making on the visitor.  That it may lead people to mistrust your
word,
character or sensitivity a bit.  Since one main purpose of the site is to
ask for
peoples' trust to such a degree that they may offer you a contract or
high-level
position, wouldn't you want to minimize that anything that might diminish
trust?
People will try to read character from personal sites, and prospective
employers
are expert at it.  Also, going overboard about showing what you know or
listing
your qualifications, can lead some to assume you are insecure, and then they
may
ask themselves why that would be so.  If you were a free-wheeling artist,
the
tongue-in-cheek JS and attitudinal stuff would be fitting, but as a network
engineer and future consultancy firm head or CTO, you need to project an
image of
_absolute_ reliability: if I were you, I'd can the maverick streak on
job-associated portions of the site.

It's extremely hard to write about oneself in a clean and dispassionate
manner,
and to integrate humor, intelligence, wit and lightheartendness into the
text in
a way that creates a strong verbal portrait of a skilled, talented and
experienced person.  You've done an awfully good job of it, overall.

I'm working on similar issues as I redesign my own site: it's the content
that's
giving me the biggest struggles.

Good luck in future!

"Szaro, Peter" wrote:

> Hello Everyone!
> I have recently joined this list as would appreciate any input on my
> personal website. The site is primarily designed for future employers,
> family and friends.
>
> Browser, Resolution, OS, Connection speed?
>
> http://peterszaro.com
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and effort!

--
Cheers,

Heather Quinn
info(at)windyhilldesign.com
http://www.windyhilldesign.com
hgquinn(at)attglobal.net
http://pws.prserv.net/windyhill



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