From the article: Paws For Parrish
What do you think of the design of "Paws For Parrish"? Provide your feedback on the design to help Bill make it better. Read these tips for constructive criticism to provide feedback that's useful. And if you have nothing bad to say about the design, that's great too, tell us why you liked it! Provide Your Critique. Share Your Critique
Not my choice
- I don't like the pdf opening in a frame in the middle of the page and it really looks unprofessional, especially the safety and security page with the Code Red hand circled. It just seems childish. The type set in the pdf looks like Comic Sans which also should not be used professionally, unless your audience is children. Sorry, but that's my opinion. Sandy K
- —Guest Sandy K
Nice site :)
- Very nice site! I love the pdf trick, very cool, very geeky, but I don't think your target audience is geeky. Joomla has a nice feature where you can save the html page in pdf format by clicking a link at the top, or send it to someone in email. Thats far more user friendly, is easier in that it stays simple yet offers viewer choices. It's all about user experience and offering choices. I love the paper look, very nice as well. But I must ask, what are you doing with all the real estate on the left hand side? Would it not be better served using it for site navigation, perhaps google ads etc..? Perhaps take the lead from what other websites do with there valued space. Those "utility links" need to be where they belong at the bottom. I'm not looking for the broom n dustpan at the main buffet. Excellent content, but as previously commented, no graphical content to spice up your lesson, you are educating the viewer, and the vast majority of people are visual learners. Otherwise well done!
- —OKFossilGuy
Design
- The torn paper is kind of a nice touch, but the background graphic on the left sidebar is um, well it's not Christmas ok...lol. The island graphic doesn't get it for me either I'm afraid. Actual images of the dogs working would be good and overall this design might work for a personal page, it's just not appropriate professionally for the medical field, which is what the therapy dogs mission is in. Even though I like the torn paper because of my last comment I would have to scrap this and start over because of the expected professionalism required in anything medically related.
- —Guest Dave M
Cute Graphics
- But very amatuerish. The torn paper effect is all over the web and has been for awhile. Agree with the pdf comments, that should have been directly in the page. And clicking on a link to have a pdf come up is definitely a no-no, unless you are expecting it. To me this was a quick throw together site with more attention to the graphics and less on content.
- —Guest t1certain
Technology
- Not a bad site, but I have some technical complaints... I dislike the use of spacer GIFs, simply because they are useless (at least in the title, and problematic in the content). Two spacer GIFs surround the title of the page and come before it as markup. This means that if I make my browser window as narrow as 990px, the title bumps about 113 pixels lower. This could be cured by deleting the two spacers, because the title is already inside a CENTER tag. The situation is similar with the content itself. If I resize my browser window to have a width of at most 830px all the content falls one page lower. I would say the solution here is more complicated... Even though I am not a fan of tables in tables, here it can actually help, since its already present. Remove all the spacers around the content (the images that point to blank1.gif). Find the TD element with the torn paper effect background image, set its width to 665 pixels and add a CSS padding of 20px to it. Done
- —snaketrouble
Confused
- I like the torn paper affect and colouring makes it friendly. I wasn't sure straight away of what the site was about and of where to go for information about it. Perhaps the side bar would be better used as the navigation and simple text based rather than the drop down options. Agree with Jennifer about the PDF. It may have been better to simply have the text in the PDF as the pages themselves. Or at least warn the visitor that all links are to a pdf file. I like the clipart image of the dog and nurse but perhaps real images of the dogs in situ would have been more revealing about the sites content. It wasn't clear how to "send us a note" I would perhaps have had this text as the link to the email. At the heading on the home page as "Send us a Note" rather than the email itself.
- —GillBraysh
