Critique my site

cds posted this at 05:04 — 26th November 1999.

Joined: Mar 1999

Ken,

Have to agree with Ian, the flashy things really have to go. Or at least most of them. There were so many of them, my eye didn't know which to look at, so I didn't read what any said.

Also, at least design for 800x600 screen resolution. Mpst of your visitors are going to be at 800 or less.

I like the logo and color scheme. Don't usually like green, but with the logo, they work. Would try to make all the text fit in the light green area.

I would narrow the column with the nav menu and put the links right under the logo and then put your prefessional graphics, etc. in a single column underneath. Not sure you really need the netscape and IE links. Based on stats from some of my sites, about 80% of the viewers out there are using version 4.x or greater of NS or IE. AOL accounts for about 15% and the remainder are V 3 or odd ball browsers. In other words, you are supplying links for an extremely small segmant of your visitors

Might even consider having an About Laurie Studio page to put the maps, etc. on. Would help to clean up the front page.

Great photos.

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lauriestudio posted this at 13:45 — 26th November 1999.

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My site is at www.lauriestudio.com .
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Ken

Ian posted this at 15:17 — 26th November 1999.

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Well sorry to say it doesn't all fit on my screen at 800x600, so I feel sorry for 640x480 users. I really think you need to get rid of all those flashing things as well and maybe look at doing something with your menu. I went to another page, - more flashing things...aaahhh, thats enough of those, they really have to go I think. Animated gifs are one thing, but those....
Sorry.

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Brian Farkas posted this at 06:50 — 27th November 1999.

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Hi. You definitely need to fix the thing to make it fit at 800x600. If it doesn't fit at this resolution, you're going to lose the majority of your visitors (unless you designed the site with the specific intent of high-res visitors).

Things I liked:

I like the colors, they are eye-pleasing and blend in well with the logo
I also like how the photos are arranged and the quality of the photos

Things that you could improve on:

It looks unorganized with everything overlapping the various shades of green- assign something to a shade and keep it in only that area.
The animated buttons look cheap. Remove them
I would follow the advice of CDS and make the nav bar smaller, so you can fit everything to 800x600 with no sideways scrollbars.

I hope this helps

Brian Farkas

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lauriestudio posted this at 13:12 — 27th November 1999.

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My thanks to everyone. I will make some changes. Your input is greatly appreciated.
Ken