Please take a look at my site and offer suggestions. It's www.hoopsking.com.

Thank you,

Chris

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I am just trying to cover my butt in case someone breaks their leg doing the drills on my site.

chris

The site itself (I did agree!):

There is a lot of stuff there and I think you are going to have to look at your use of colour to make it clearer - you need to make the headlines jump out but there is just a mass of orange stuff. Links should stand out and this shade of orange seem to make them recede instead somehow.

Adding mouseover effects to the links would help and personally I feel that the orange is just not quite the right shade - the one you are using on your buttons would be a lot better.

The first thing I would do is change the width of your main table to 90% and align it center, it will pull the main content away from the side bars and make the whole thing look clearer.

Contrast is the main thing - you have a lot of excellent content, more contrast on the pages would present it better to potential users. As an example I changed the bg colour of the cells with 'Featured Streaming....' and Top Pick in them to red and the difference was amazing.

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LinKKs - Kilkenny's Online Magazine

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[This message has been edited by abbeyvet (edited 05-31-2001).]

I clicked and this is what I got.

Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow content to be listed.

As I haven't see it this is perhaps unfair but do you really *need* pop ups? - There's a huge reaction against these things. Certainly the minute I hit a site that uses them (anywhere but here) I mutter some very bad words indeed to myself and exit.

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Hope this helps :-)
Gorilla
aka Mark Saunders
http://www.computerdriving.com

marksaunders@techie.com

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Katherine

InKK Design
LinKKs - Kilkenny's Online Magazine

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"Dogs have owners, cats have staff!"

Thanks abbeyvet (and congrats again btw - well done) ye gods am I scarlet - you'd think I'd have noticed that myself

anyway chris - i'll pop back later and do a better look @ it.

gorilla

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Hope this helps :-)
Gorilla
aka Mark Saunders
http://www.computerdriving.com

marksaunders@techie.com

I'm not a fan of popups either but I am trying to get people to sign up for @hoopsking.com e-mail. It shows up the first time someone comes to the sight and not again. Maybe one time too many for some

Chris

You're not the only one who likes to cover his butt ... Glad to see that you're aware of the need and are trying to ensure that your butt is covered.

OK I'm back - fed, rested, refreshed, and all those other desirable things.

I'll start by saying that there's a lot of material on your site and that you've obviously put a lot of thought, time, and effort into it.

I echo Abbeyvet's suggestions and comments about your color scheme and navigation. As the site is at present it *is* a bit unclear. You're so close that it'd be a shame to miss out by a fraction.

Now the pop up:

Well it'll drive visitors away. Why not have a prominent welcome message instead offering people the chance to sign up for it. Try emphasisng that it's part of your efforts at building community amongst basketball enthusiasts etc etc.

The "agreement"

From the non-technical visitor's point of view clicking on "I disagree" does not *appear* to do anything.

In any case "to agree" "to accept" and "to consent" have very different meanings both in dictionaries and in many courtrooms.

I wonder whether clicking on "I agree" constitutes a valid acceptance. You *don't* tell your visitors what they are agreeing to.

That's why "adult" sites (to take the most glaring example) specify what it is you're agreeing to.

Perhaps you should rethink....

Many bar associations offer cheap advice schemes whereby for a small fee you get a ½ hour consultation with a local lawyer.

I hope this helps.

I changed the hyperlink colors to bright green. It is too glowing? Also I changed the big Headings to red and the navigation button text to yellow.

Frontpage mysteriously added a series of dots underneath the navigation button links.

Chris

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Hope this helps :-)
Gorilla
aka Mark Saunders
http://www.computerdriving.com

marksaunders@techie.com