Critique requested... any help appreciated -

Sorry, I didn't include a URL. This was my first post here. http://hnowen.hypermart.net

Hello Grandpasclocks.
Thank you for the English critique, I'm afraid I'm a bit "right brained" and tend to get a little careless with my English when I'm in a hurry. I still mix up to, two, and too as well, even though I'm quite aware of the differences. I'll try to be a bit more careful in the future .
Now for your critique. First off you've got some interesting graphics, they all look nice together. Nothing about them says "clocks" to me though. You could experiment with some textures (wood) or shapes (clocks) to make your graphics tie in a little bit more with your theme. Also, if you designed a logo "grandpa Owens clocks & stuff" I think your site would a bit more professional. One suggestion would be to replace your heading text (the bar on top) with the logo and make another catchy graphic for your headings.
The yellow text that overlaps the yellow background is a nice effect but a bit hard to read. You may want to adjust that color a little bit.
Take care,

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Carolyn Jones

For anyone interested:
they're = they are
there = over there
Easy reminders to avoid making this common mistake.
- the text grandpa's home is mis-aligned
- not to keen on the lightly coloured background
- the rollover graphics are too rough and do not look professional
- the font size is to big and reminds me of those scam MLM sites (sorry)
Was that merciless enough?
JP

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The site loaded quite quickly on my machine.

Interesting buttons? What are they?

The pictures could do with sharpening as the
quality looks quite poor.

The site seems quite bare - probably could do
with more information on about yourselves.

The photo's page did not load at all and came
up with a "server down error"

Hope this helps!

Hope i've used "they correctly"

Just thought I would throw in my two cents worth.

When the page is loaded in using Netscape the flying words don't. You then get a scroll bar on the bottom that leads you to believe that there is something else on the page. Although I couldn't find anything else.

When in IE I found that the words flew in to slowly for me. I like to make a real quick cursory glance through the page and didn't like waiting for stuff to fly in to see what was available.

Because I don't like to have pages that don't work on IE and Netscape the same and because of the fact that the flying words don't serve any practical purpose (and the script is quite long) I think I would eleminate that part of the page and use the bandwidth to color up the buttons and such.

Being that my Grandfather is a clock collector I really enjoyed the page.

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My goal in life is found in Phillipians 4:8-9

Here are my opinions:

First the yellow text in the header image is hard to read against your background color.
Your link graphics remind more of keys than clocks and the edges are a bit jagged.

Also you should try putting everything in a table so it all has a uniform widt everything looks kinda spaced out and uneven.

One last thing not to be too picky but the page seems kinda busy with all the animations. Its like my eye couldnt decide where to focus. Try using the animations to emphasize the most important aspects of your site. Animations are great but overuse seems to ruin the effect.

Hope I was of some help

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Doni Ronquillo
I-Face Warehouse
http:\\ifaces.radicalweb.net
icq: 18216690

Hi Grandpa.
Liked your page.
But I think It Is too long and that makes it load slower, you should make it more compact.
That is opinion.
Hope that helped...

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Nicolas Escobar Jariton