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Honest web site feedback (Fri Oct 25 03:40:01 2002 )
Xanthix [View profile ]
http://www.animelibrary.org
xanthix@animelibrary.org

First of all, I agree with everyone that your gallery is most 
impressive. However, as a web designer, I have to give some 
constructive criticism. Sorry if it sounds like I'm 
complaining; I only mean to point out a usability 
issue.

On a 800x600 monitor, your site looks like it'd do 
well. But at higher resolutions, there's a lot of unused 
space. The attached screenshot shows what I mean - it was taken 
at 1024x768. At higher resolutions it's even worse. This is 
not a critical problem, but it raises several points. One is 
that users with higher resolutions are used to being able to 
see more of a page than a half screen. I for one felt like the 
content was unnecessarily crammed into a small box floating 
in the middle of the page. There are also the issues of the 
content scrollbar not being along the right edge of the 
screen, limited space for content in a fixed-size IFRAME, and 
browsers that do not support IFRAME's (Netscape 4.X just 
shows an empty box!).

I do hesitate to criticise such a 
good-looking design. The site looks extremely professional 
and polished. Unfortunately, many sites are polished for 
graphics and not usability. For example, the leftnav looks 
artistic, but the grey leftnav text is difficult to read over 
the greyscale background.

Like I said, I don't want to 
criticise, especially when you're under the weather, but 
usability design is what I do, so please consider this free 
consulting that you can take or leave out with the trash. 
^_^

If you are interested in suggestions, I believe the 
same overall effect of your site could be reproduced with 
ordinary frames, although the border around the content 
might have to be a solid color or tiling image instead of the 
cel border it is now. I just don't know if IFRAMES are standard 
enough for primetime - do you want to leave out all Netscape 4.X 
users?

Anyway, hope this feedback was helpful, or at 
least mildly interesting. Either way, your collection 
remains an inspiration to all us Slayers fans!

Xanthix



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