From: "Helen Creswick" <helenc@redland.net.au>
To: "Nancy Coffey" <ncoffey@netrover.com>,
Subject: Re: Site critique
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:42:56 +1000

Your site would be better if you changed your font to a 'screen friendly
font" such as Arial, Times New Roman is a print font and is hard to read
on-screen, especially when used as a small font.

The hotlinks on your fundraising page aren't working.

Try and rework your photos to reduce their size.   The image on your home
page is 25k, too big as it takes too long to download.    The smaller images
are round 10k, these could be reduced to about 2-3k if you reduce the
picture quality slightly, also add some drop shadows to them to give them
some depth.   If images are too big and take a long time to load, your
visitors won't hang around.

Add your email address to you footer so it appears on every page, and also a
time stamp so visitors know your site is up to date.

The other suggestion I would make is to get away from the frontpage
templates as you'll find many other sites out there using the same
templates, and therefore will have exactly the same feel as your site.
Creating your own graphics will make your site unique.

Apart from that, looks good, and should generate business of your daughter.

Helen Creswick
www.fetesandfestivals.com.au
Your one stop guide
Brisbane, Australia




----- Original Message -----
To: Balloon deco <balloondeco@balloonhq.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:33 AM
Subject: Site critiqueique


> Hello folks,
>
> I've just finished my first web site, for my daughter's business. She
> does beautiful (OK I admit I'm biased) balloon decor, and rents and
> sells items for parties and weddings. I would really appreciate it if
> you would go to www.timspartycentre.com and let me know if you have any
> suggestions to make it better. Let me know how it looks in your browser
> and what browser you are using, whether the pages download quickly
> enough, and if anything doesn't look right.
>
> Please email me rather than clutter up the list with comments that
> wouldn't interest anyone else. If I get any good general suggestions,
> I'll post them to the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nancy
> Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada
>
>
>