Re: FLASH: Blistering Critique requested

[Keane_Sadler]

Dear Jeff,


Suggestions for your site follow:


1) Front Page

Simplify the first page the user sees.  You have too much random *stuff*.

The user has a simple choice: FLASH or no flash.

I agree with Roger in that the jpg you use does not seem to have much

depth;  you should be able to change that by adding rocks, etc to it so you

get perspective.


2) HTML home page

Icky Animated gif.  See if you can fit all the content here on one screen

of info, so it looks cleaner.  Using borderlesstables can really help here.


3) Marketing Page

No icky anim?  Put your navigational links at the top as well as the bottom

of the page.  Block quote, un-bold, and left align the text, maybe with a

graphic letter at the begining of each paragraph.


4) Pricing

Icky Animated GIF at top.  Header and Divider are jamming together on the

same line.  Keep table cells the same size.


5)History

Good overall.  Try a layout that using more than one HTML page; ie page

one, then user input to go to the next page.  Of course, if you do that

then make sure you make the rest of the pages thus to maintain consistancy.


6) E-Mags

One word: Formating! :)


7) Sample Sites

Again, see if you can fit everything in one screen.  I like the table

format.  The borders are good here, I think.


8) Philosophy

Broken graphics.  See above ;)


OVERALL:


You need to keep a more consistant design, preferable one that does not

require the user to scroll around much;  ie, keeping all information in one

place.  The animated header you have on some pages looks pretty bad, IMHO;

try a more professional looking letterhead.  Navigation, be it links or a

menu should be either on the left hand side, or at both the top and bottom

of the page.


That is all I can think of for the HTML.  I have some ideas for the FLASH

part, but I won't include them here, since you were primarily asking for

critiques on the HTML.  If you would like my FLASH suggestions, please

email me personally.


Good luck on your revisions (what ever you choose to do!),


Keane Sadler

keane_sadlerrosetree [dot] k12 [dot] pa [dot] us

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