> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 10:07 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Blowin our own horn: New CF Site > > We've just launched our own new site. It's fully CF driven from MS SQL > DB. > > If you want to see it, it's at: http://www.austin-williams.com
It seems to load quickly for me (Comcast Cable). But... +) I had a lot of trouble with the sideways menu text. It's small (too small to support a cosmetic orientation) and heavily anti-aliased (making it fuzzy and hard to read since text antialiasing is optimized for horizontal text). The very tight kerning doesn't help. +) Like others I also tried (in vain) to click on the items in the Flash movie. That's a LOT of real-estate to consume for a non-functional element (especially one that doesn't actually explain anything). +) A lot of the interactivity is frustrating. When I click on "Our Mission" I get the mission... then when I move the mouse out of the way to READ "Our Mission" it disappears (even tho' you've also included a specific control element as well). +) You're navigation is all over the map... the main navigation palette is spacious and large (even if the text is small and cramped) while on inner pages (like the "brand studies" page) this is replaced with a crowded, tiny palette (with even harder to read gray-on-gray text). +) I think most importantly: after watching the Flash Intro longer than I would normally watch ANY Flash into in the wild I still don't know what the site is for. I asked my lovely bride as well and she immediately knew what it was: a site for an art gallery. Oh, and yeah: we're pricks. But you did pop your head up into our sights. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314672 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
