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I'll put this together bit by bit as I switch back and forth from the site, so forgive any disjointedness...
1) Nice colour scheme (I like that blue generally, and it fits with the company type)
2) There are at least four different 'types' of rollover behaviour on the site: on the first page - the left side links, the drop down menu, and the right hand side; on the subpages, the "home" rollover.
It makes it seem a little bitty and disjointed for my liking.
With the menu divided between left, top, and right, it wasn't clear to me how the menus were related
3) The left menu (large document, etc) - I'd personally make it so that pointing to the round bullets also acts as the link, and triggers the image swap. Just a personal thing, but it didn't feel right that the screw-heads(?) didn't "do" anything...
4) The top drop down menu - odd things seem to happen with resizing the page: menu being truncated, not disappearing properly, not being in the right place, that kind of thing (IE 5.5, windows). Also it isn't clear which items are direct links, and which items trigger submenus, particularly when the submenus don't always disappear when they should - you'll need to check the consistency of the layer appear/disappear behaviours there.
5) The right menu: first item (levels/lasers) seems very squashed in that box, as well as having a strong black border which none of the others have. Also when the image swap occurs, the segments slide sideways - and become rectangular, rather than looking like the same shapes moved across. Is it supposed to give the appearance of a sliding block, or am I just misinterpreting the model there?..
6) I expected the three items at the bottom - quality, service, experience - to be clickable...
7) On some subpages the left menu (large document copying, etc, etc) disappears, on some it is retained.
All in all, not too bad, but comes across as very inconsistent. I'd strongly recommend picking one of the navigation systems and sticking with it for all the navigation, or make the navigation systems less dramatically different to each other.
Regards,
Jon Wilson
Threespot Limited
1) Nice colour scheme (I like that blue generally, and it fits with the company type)
2) There are at least four different 'types' of rollover behaviour on the site: on the first page - the left side links, the drop down menu, and the right hand side; on the subpages, the "home" rollover.
It makes it seem a little bitty and disjointed for my liking.
With the menu divided between left, top, and right, it wasn't clear to me how the menus were related
3) The left menu (large document, etc) - I'd personally make it so that pointing to the round bullets also acts as the link, and triggers the image swap. Just a personal thing, but it didn't feel right that the screw-heads(?) didn't "do" anything...
4) The top drop down menu - odd things seem to happen with resizing the page: menu being truncated, not disappearing properly, not being in the right place, that kind of thing (IE 5.5, windows). Also it isn't clear which items are direct links, and which items trigger submenus, particularly when the submenus don't always disappear when they should - you'll need to check the consistency of the layer appear/disappear behaviours there.
5) The right menu: first item (levels/lasers) seems very squashed in that box, as well as having a strong black border which none of the others have. Also when the image swap occurs, the segments slide sideways - and become rectangular, rather than looking like the same shapes moved across. Is it supposed to give the appearance of a sliding block, or am I just misinterpreting the model there?..
6) I expected the three items at the bottom - quality, service, experience - to be clickable...
7) On some subpages the left menu (large document copying, etc, etc) disappears, on some it is retained.
All in all, not too bad, but comes across as very inconsistent. I'd strongly recommend picking one of the navigation systems and sticking with it for all the navigation, or make the navigation systems less dramatically different to each other.
Regards,
Jon Wilson
Threespot Limited
Hi wblue,
I tested in IE4.0 and NN4.73:
Frst my compliments that the site looks the same in both browsers! Well done, I've seen a lot of pages that don't look the same in those 2 browsers.
Here are my remarks:
1) In NN the top dropdown menu gives an apastrophe "'" in the left-upper corner of each second-level-menu (like "photographic srevice", supplies" and "kip copiers"
. The second-level-menu "hp plotters" don't have that. Maybe it because this is the only one that is aligned "right" ??
2)in NN the top drown box don't colors the menu items with a rollover.
3)The left menu show "media" on line 6. When you click on "large document copying" or "Distribution .." suddenly "copier media" shows up. Keep showing the same link-names !!
4) in NN the background of the media-tabel is widther than the tabel and shows under the right menu. Something the same happened in "instruments.htm"
5) the backgroundcolor of your page is bgColor=#638dab.
the backgroundcolor of you image ebc%20logo.jpg is bgColor=#648dab
6) The send files link don't work at all in IE for me. In NN I think it works half. I don't exectly understand the meaning of it, but I must admit that I don't know much about FTP.
Hope this helps you a bit,
Erik
I tested in IE4.0 and NN4.73:
Frst my compliments that the site looks the same in both browsers! Well done, I've seen a lot of pages that don't look the same in those 2 browsers.
Here are my remarks:
1) In NN the top dropdown menu gives an apastrophe "'" in the left-upper corner of each second-level-menu (like "photographic srevice", supplies" and "kip copiers"
. The second-level-menu "hp plotters" don't have that. Maybe it because this is the only one that is aligned "right" ??2)in NN the top drown box don't colors the menu items with a rollover.
3)The left menu show "media" on line 6. When you click on "large document copying" or "Distribution .." suddenly "copier media" shows up. Keep showing the same link-names !!
4) in NN the background of the media-tabel is widther than the tabel and shows under the right menu. Something the same happened in "instruments.htm"
5) the backgroundcolor of your page is bgColor=#638dab.
the backgroundcolor of you image ebc%20logo.jpg is bgColor=#648dab
6) The send files link don't work at all in IE for me. In NN I think it works half. I don't exectly understand the meaning of it, but I must admit that I don't know much about FTP.
Hope this helps you a bit,
Erik
Hi,
I just checked out your site in IE6 + NN6.
I totally agree with the above comments.
The first thing I notice is LINKS, LINKS, LINKS!!
I personally think that a user may find it very hard to navigate as there is so many links and different looks between the 3 navigation menus.
One thing that really annoyed me was the fact that your dropdown menu links did not disappear after mouse off.
In NN the top dropdown menu moves to the right which messes up the look of the site and also hides most of the right nav menu.
I also expected the bottom 3 items to be clickable..(Service etc.)
Another thing is you will have trouble with is search engines as you don`t actually have any body text on the page. One thing I would personally do is to remove the top right image(Complete engineering reproduction) and replace it with text. This is a valuable piece of information relating to the site and search engines will miss it if it is included as an image.
Overall, looks good but I think the above advice would benefit the site..
Hope this helps Wullie
I just checked out your site in IE6 + NN6.
I totally agree with the above comments.
The first thing I notice is LINKS, LINKS, LINKS!!
I personally think that a user may find it very hard to navigate as there is so many links and different looks between the 3 navigation menus.
One thing that really annoyed me was the fact that your dropdown menu links did not disappear after mouse off.
In NN the top dropdown menu moves to the right which messes up the look of the site and also hides most of the right nav menu.
I also expected the bottom 3 items to be clickable..(Service etc.)
Another thing is you will have trouble with is search engines as you don`t actually have any body text on the page. One thing I would personally do is to remove the top right image(Complete engineering reproduction) and replace it with text. This is a valuable piece of information relating to the site and search engines will miss it if it is included as an image.
Overall, looks good but I think the above advice would benefit the site..
Hope this helps Wullie
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