Critique of website The Three Essentials of Web Design
http://www.curiousmindsmedia.com/articles/essentials.htm
The Three Essentials of Web Design
Site loaded in seconds but not surprising as almost all text, minimum graphics. It is boring to look at - difficult to make text exciting but a slightly different layout and fonts would help. And something more attractive than the dribbly graphic down the right hand margin. And I hate having to scroll down a page to read it!
The content is interesting and sound - not terribly well-spelled but no-one except oldies like me will care about that. What's more interesting is that they didn't follow their own advice about catering for different browsers! (Images used for vertical lines under links at the top of the page, which was fine in Firefox didn't look good in Internet Explorer.)
Links to other site pages did not work so not possible to comment on whole site.
Rating: adequate
posted by Jane at 7:14 PM
3 Comments:
As Given before on Steves blog I found the site had some good content but to get to it there was far too much flash movies and "fancy stuff" which started to get anoying after a while.
The bright ornage and white colour scheem started to hurt my eyes on my monitor after a while.
overall 2.5 - some good content but it takes to long to get to it
12:04 PM
Jane, i looked at this site to, your right some links don't work and the active links are pictures that don't always load. I have only check this in Explorer!
and as you say it seem sto break its own rule. Not good if your tell ours how to design good web pages. What was your score for this site? I gave it a 3.
3:43 PM
Agree absolutely about the time taken to load FLASH graphics. Also, on the page about how to design a good web page I too disliked having to scroll down. I believe this used to be an absolute no no. However, since the advent of the mouse with central wheel - I think vertical scrolling is now much more acceptable though horizontal scrolling is totally unacceptable.
11:14 AM
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