At 10:06 AM 4/22/2006, Hopkins Programming wrote:
Hey, while I've got it on my mind, would you all mind taking a look
at my newest website design that is set to go live on May 1st, 2006
for the Spring CSS Reboot?
You can see it online at
<http://new.hopkinsprogramming.net/>http://new.hopkinsprogramming.net/.
It is pretty much finalized, except for the Client Login area, and
some additional text on the home page.
Please let me know what you think of it in terms of graphics,
standards, semantics, and whatever else might come to mind!
Just one quick note: your nav menu at top and your links menu at
left teach us how to use your interface: that to active a link you
hover over the big graphic box. Then the main link in your content
area (CSS Reboot) fails to follow through. The graphic box isn't a
link, and what appears to be hyperlinked text at right is merely an
acronym. It took me a moment to discover that the headline was the
link. Not obvious, because it's styled identically to the other
non-link headlines. I didn't notice till after that discovery that
it's got a little 'external link' graphic next to it; ignored at
first perhaps because my peripheral vision mistook it for a
registered trademark symbol or sumthin' -- and because my experience
with the web in general and your page in specific hadn't prepared me
to expect a vanilla-looking headline to be a link.
Therefore I'd say that your user interface design lacks coherency of
vision. See if you can strip out at least one of those conventions
(if not two) and make your usage more uniform in order to make your
page more intuitively obvious.
Regards,
Paul
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