Sundance Resort New Website

Hi Colorspots, Welcome to TWF.
the sub menus in IE5 and NS6.2 go to the top of the page instead of beside. Opera6 (as Opera6) goes beside the sub menu and is the best display. Opera doesnt have the black dividing lines thou.
In opera and NS the DHTML menu (bottom right) has a white background so the text is unreadable (blue background and white text in IE)
the "Village" link, should maybe read "Home", people are used to home as the home page.
the center graphic text is blurry, a little over compressed, maybe do that section as text? would help on search engine results.
the margins in Opera arent at 0, add marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" to your body tag.
I didnt check any links.
under "spa/treatments" you have "massage" twice

Welcome to TWF colorspots. :wave:

First thing I noticed is that it takes a while for the image of the mountains to load on my dialup. Nice image though.

The blue color that you are using for that table cell on the right sorta clashes with the blue color in the image of the mountains. And the brown color seems to be making the page a little drab looking. Have you experimented with other colors?

I am not crazy about the menu being crammed in the top left corner. It is throwing everything off balance. Also, in your menu, you might consider adding a small arrow image to show that some of the second level links have a third level. Someone of the "general public" might not know to look for that third level without some type of guidance marker. That particular menu may not offer the choice of doing that. I have never used that one.

On the "about us" page...loose the background in the right cell. Looks better with the solid color background.

The capital letter graphics that you are using at the beginning of some of the paragraphs could be of better quality. They have the fuzzies just a tad.

You have a lot of pages on this site and it seems to be really easy to loose where you are. Not sure what to suggest but you might want to rethink your navigation. Not sure that I like the color changes from page to page (or section to section is how I think you have this set up_. I suppose that isn't bad. It just looks too much like you are entering a different site. Or could be, I am just in a nit picky mood.

You have some really great images on the site. I love mountain scenes and these definately set the mood.

Netscape 4.7 is not being nice to you. Lots of errors showing up. But hey! The menu works.

On the lodging pages I think I would get rid of the transparency in the menu. (and other pages if you are using it) That makes the menu a bit hard to read. I don't have time to go through the whole site but overall, you have presented the material very well. Just needs a little tweeking.

Some of the pages have a smaller font than others. And actually, I think I like the smaller font better.

Well, me browser is frozen up now so I guess I will end here. Keep working. You will get it.

Sonia

I really like the greenish background, it suits the content very well. It's hard to tell normal text and hyperlinks apart, these should be different in some way. On the menu I dont think that having the font bold is such a good idea, the font you have used doesn't look that that good when it's bold.

I find it a bit heavy colour wise and I had a look at the current version and I have to say I prefered the fresh feeling that one gives. Plus this one was quite slow loading for me and I'm on a fast connection.

From a search engine point of view you really aren't doing yourself any favours with this version as the menu/links being done with javascript they have nothing to follow and with the text being an image they can't read that either.

Congratulations, you have found a dynamic drop-down menu that works in all major browsers!!!!!

I agree, however, about the menu being stuck at the top like that. is there any way to move it around at all or is this one of those scripts that only works at 0,0? Maybe you could tweak it to move the menu to go under the black header area. Also change that font, TNR does not look good.

The pages are loading a little slow here... I don't know if that's just me or what... maybe you should reconsider keeping those big photos on every single page. A smaller photo would work well and you could always link it to a larger version.

I like the way you've changed the background color on each page, but it is seeming kind of random to me (i.e. why is mountain biking yellow and snowboarding green? They're both under "activities"). What you could do is use a different colour for each section of the navbar across the top. Do all the pages in those sections in that color, and if you can, also color the navbar to match. I also really don't like that diamond pattern on the right side of some of the pages.

You should really do more on the front page to indicate what and where this place is. That wasn't immediately obvious.

Hiya, i like your site, the use of images are good, i had to get some one to do that for my site, lol. I also like the calendar hover thingy, very good

Very indeed well said all the above feedbacks!

I can say no more...

thanks for all the feedback. It defiinetly helps me create the site. Since I am the only developer sometimes I just get fixated and need help thinking outside the box. It is good information about the menues in IE5. It works fine for me in Netscape 6.2 and 7. I know about the rotating flash appearing white. I have fixed it it just isn't uploaded yet. The current image on the home page is definetly big. I am in the process of experimenting to bring the file size down but keep the visual. I am also in the process of redoing many of the graphics such as the drop caps. Those were built by the previous webmaster for another page. I just used them to give me a basic look and feel. We hope to have this site up and running by November 1. I appreciate the feed back and I will address hopefully all these issues in the next week or so. Thank You all so much.

I'm on a 56K modem and that image loads up in a few seconds..

I like your web site. You have a lot of menus to navigate through and your use of the drop down menus is a great idea. Good job. The only criticism I have is that your Sundance logo link on the right side of the page is a broken link. Take a look at that. One other thing, and this is only a preference of mine, is that I like the page centered. But overall, the site looks great. I think you only need to fix that broken link.