Critique please

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Brandon Blatcher
<bblatcher (AT) comcast (DOT) net> writing in news:bblatcher-C5AED7.18030825052005
@comcast.dca.giganews.com:

Constructive Criticisim sought for :

http://wwww.thebestofsavannah.com

Thanks in advance.

There is virtually no content on the splash page. What is your most
important visitor going to get? It seems what you want to have the most
emphasis does not exist without the image, or with images turned off, or
if you're a search engine bot (your most important visitor).

Frankly, I would get rid of the splash page altogether, use a shorter
version of the header graphic that appears on subsequent pages, and put a
little bit about the Savannah annual readers poll on that first page.

I would also get rid of the fixed page size, that will negate the
background image that others have found distasteful.

--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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Tried to view it but the site would not come up.
"Brandon Blatcher" <bblatcher (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote

Constructive Criticisim sought for :

http://wwww.thebestofsavannah.com

Thanks in advance.

Trish wrote:

Tried to view it but the site would not come up.

You also missed the extra "w" in his link typo. <g>

"Brandon Blatcher" <bblatcher (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote in message
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Constructive Criticisim sought for :

http://wwww.thebestofsavannah.com

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Brandon,
Site needs some polishing graphic wise.

Blue wallpaper is too busy, takes away from the middle content

Your pixel widths are great.

You have more than 250 words per page, well done.

your links should pop up in Target=blank to keep people from leaving your
site permanetly

Repeat you links in text only at the bottom, a very good practice

have your logo top left click back to your home page

write a very good title and description for your home page.

That's it, i like it otherwise.
Maybe you can help me. I am just forming a new company www.300bucks.ca after
7 years with m7.ca. I need as many sites to link to 300bucks.ca as possible,
want to share links?

Kip Kappar
www.300bucks.ca



"Brandon Blatcher" <bblatcher (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote

Constructive Criticisim sought for :

http://wwww.thebestofsavannah.com

Thanks in advance.

Kevin Johnston wrote:

Brandon,
Site needs some polishing graphic wise.

Blue wallpaper is too busy, takes away from the middle content

Your pixel widths are great.

You have more than 250 words per page, well done.

your links should pop up in Target=blank to keep people from leaving your
site permanetly

Repeat you links in text only at the bottom, a very good practice

have your logo top left click back to your home page

write a very good title and description for your home page.
That's starnge. I got a 404 page.

--
Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:47:31 -0400 in alt.html.critique, Kevin Johnston wrote:

your links should pop up in Target=blank to keep people from leaving your
site permanetly

No! No! No!

I, as a user, should be the one to decide whether or not to open a new
window. I *curse* any site that tries to make that decision for me.

--
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become
the instruments of tyranny at home." -- James Madison
Rick Pasotto rick (AT) niof (DOT) net http://www.niof.net

Rick Pasotto wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:47:31 -0400 in alt.html.critique, Kevin Johnston wrote:

your links should pop up in Target=blank to keep people from leaving your
site permanetly


No! No! No!

I, as a user, should be the one to decide whether or not to open a new
window. I *curse* any site that tries to make that decision for me.

And what is so desperately wrong with a new window? I have a site with
pics of my last hiking trip , and it is set up so that clicking on a pic
will bring up a very small window showing a map of the area in which the
pic was taken. The user can then both look at the pic and the map at
the same time.

I don't see the problem with that. Or so there an acceptable
alternative way of getting the same effect?

Yours truly,
Ed

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Ed <ex@directory> writing in
news:42a37206$0$299$cc9e4d1f (AT) news-text (DOT) dial.pipex.com:

Rick Pasotto wrote:
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:47:31 -0400 in alt.html.critique, Kevin Johnston
wrote:

your links should pop up in Target=blank to keep people from leaving
your site permanetly


No! No! No!

I, as a user, should be the one to decide whether or not to open a new
window. I *curse* any site that tries to make that decision for me.



And what is so desperately wrong with a new window? I have a site
with pics of my last hiking trip , and it is set up so that clicking on
a pic will bring up a very small window showing a map of the area in
which the pic was taken. The user can then both look at the pic and
the map at the same time.

I don't see the problem with that. Or so there an acceptable
alternative way of getting the same effect?

Rick is referring to target="_blank" which spans a completely new window,
not a very small javascript window.

The problem with opening new window using target="_blank" is that it breaks
the back button. I use mouse gestures and very rarely look up to see if
the back button is disabled, then I'm gesturing along and suddenly realize
I'm not going anywhere. Argh!

If you include target="_blank" attribute where you are using a js onclick,
the back button is still broken for users with js turned off.

Users should know that small windows pop-up or that links open in a new
window. Just a small bit of text will let them know that.
--
Adrienne Boswell
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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