Topic: Site Review again (Page 1 of 1)

I'd like another site review.
Think I've taken care of most of the prolems since the last review.
Even removed the "fade effect" for "Suho".
Sig has link to site.. http://bennieshepherd.com



[This message has been edited by MIDI (edited 02-27-2003).]

link?

"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

I like the simplicity of the navigation and the colour scheme. I also like the highlight effect on links.

I wouldn't make the song pages and your links page with text centered all the way down the page; it's not natural to the eye, IMHO. I would create a left aligned column instead using css, and put the artist's name next to it.

Why do you have two search engines on your site? Having two is confusing, unless there is some reason it's there that I don't know about. Now that I've used both of them, I have to say that if you can get the Google design to match your site's, that would be a better option. Otherwise, people are automatically driven away from your site from the Vanbasco search option. If you still want to include this, I would put Vanbasco as a link instead. I'd make the default radio button Bennie's MIDI Page instead of WWW.

Those are my suggestions. Hope that helps!
~N

oops...i was looking with my eyes closed

Nethermind... The "Vanbasco" search engine is just for midi files and of course "Google" is a general search.
There's not a whole lot I can do with "Google", display wise, other than maybe changing the font color.
I did make my site the default search page. Thanks for the help...

Rinswind 2th... Took your advice and made the highlight work as soon as you move the cursor over the cells.
Just added a block/display for each of those cells. Thank you also for the help...

Take Care...

that's better hehe easier to navigate... i also like the idea from the new midi files on the first page.
There is a thing i didn't understand why do you use all the P tags in the code. Do you really need to have a paragraph for each link? And my final comment for now please put the style definition in the header or in a separate file.
The style tag should be avioded when possible. The style sheet is meant to reusable only for testing or exceptions on the main style sheet.

"Freedom of speech is by no means freedom to insult others" from the Razorart goodbye letter.

Rinswind... I don't hand code css and the program I use isn't working with that 1 cell, so I use the style tag.
As for the all the p's, I use them mainly for the space between links that they give me... Guess I could try putting the style in the header.
Thanks for the help again...

MIDI: Thanks. It looks much better without the fade.

As always, it's simple and straightforward, and you can't go wrong with that. I think Nethermind has a good point about text alignment, though. Having the song titles left-aligned will make it easier to read titles as you scan down the page because all the title will begin at the same point. As it is, you have to start at a different point each time. The total time difference could probably be measured in milliseconds, but still, why make it any harder on your users?

Also, I'm wondering if the three graphics on the "Home" page aren't a bit too prominent. They stand out from the rest of the design, and the user will immediately be drawn to them. If that's what you want, splendid. If not, you might want to rethink placement and/or color.

Suho... Got the song titles and even the menu aligned left
and changed the graphics into small banners, now they don't stand out quite so much.
Thanks again for all the help.
Any more ideas?