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topnoch Posts: 18 From: None Status: offline	please critique - 4/2/2001 15:01:00 hi, i posted a message last month and have since taken the advice of you guys and made changes. please re-advise if necessary. thanks, topnoch


mfalk Posts: 330 From: Centereach,NY Status: offline	RE: please critique - 4/2/2001 15:18:00 Whats the URL? Mark (in reply to topnoch)


topnoch Posts: 18 From: None Status: offline	RE: please critique - 4/2/2001 15:22:00 oh yeah!! sorry www.tobacorp.com (in reply to topnoch)


Nancy Nelson Posts: 148 From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Status: offline	RE: please critique - 4/2/2001 15:32:00 I currently have my browser set to a background colour of hot pink (a trick I learned here a few months ago). Your website is coming up hotpink. You may want to specify an actual background colour for the page, or the user will get their "default" (whatever color that may happen to be). ------------------ <thanks> Nancy </thanks> (in reply to topnoch)

Goober

Posts: 1156
From: Pennsylvania USA
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RE: please critique - 4/3/2001 20:10:00

Hi!

First thing I see is side-to-side scrolling. Your tables need a little work. It appears that the table on your home page is set at 19% wide? Also, your top grapic is rather wide (on the Nokia page).

The biggest problem is see at the moment is the file size of the Nokia page. I've been waiting three minutes (or more) and it's still loading. It is impossibly large. The light-up antenna pic alone is larger than a whole page should be. If I was a prospective customer, there is no way I would stick around for a page like that to load. Actually, I didn't wait for it to entirely load even now.

You need some kind of text navigation on the pages...not just graphics. And again, those animated .gifs are just another unnecessary addition to the page file size.

Someone viewing your site with graphics turned off would be out of luck (or rather you would be). You need to add alt text to all the graphics.

Back to the home page...I notice there is some kind of red "something" that flies down the page as it's loading?

Don't forget your meta tags.

Sandy

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topnoch Posts: 18 From: None Status: offline	RE: please critique - 4/3/2001 20:15:00 how do i get the table to be the same size on all three pages. as for the picture size, can i just go in photoshop and reduce the image size. if i reduce the images wont that free up some of the time it takes now to download? (in reply to topnoch)

capitao

Posts: 53
From: Guidlford Surrey United Kingdom
Status: offline

RE: please critique - 4/3/2001 20:43:00

some of your images have unused white areas - the nokia 8890 for example has white above and below the pic, so there's one place for triming size down. They may also work better as GIFs? try a few and compare file size (therfore load speed), they would then shimmer into view and we'd get something to look at while the images are forming. The way they do it on the orange site http://www.orange.co.uk is to only have 5 phone pics per page, and they are smaller too.

Table sizes - you could define the table in pixels, say 700 pixels wide (to keep the people coming in on an 800x600 screen happy)

And YEP - those animated back and forward buttons ... mmm - don't think so. No no

Also your nokia page is called: New Page 2, are the other two pages ... one of the first lines in your HTML, and easy to edit

while in your code, there are no META TAGS in there. Keywords: Nokia etc. search engines may not pick it up too well if at all

I actually found the pages quite fast loading on a 56K modem, mid afternoon over here (UK) .. but smaller images are the key - your phones are what between 8-13k each ... need to be smaller

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