Comments on navigation, load times, content, code, etc...
1. Navigation
Good enough for me. I miss a home link / button, but I have no problem navigating in my browser. Other people say there shall be a home button. But if you think objects, and you will train the surfer to click on objects, the cube, or the name, I agree with you, and do the same myself. Train the surfer to think digital objects with properties. When I click the Newsletter folder, I am directed to:
http://www.ientry.com/page/newsletters/ Is that natural or should the newsletter be on a subpage of the site?
When I now click home, naturally, I am directed to
http://www.ientry.com/. Somebody may have problems returning to WebProNews. Is the magazine designed for the moms and pops or the more advanced IT person?
2. Load time
That is worst for me in Norway with a three year old computer with 1 Gb memory, a 2.7 Gb processor and standard connection. If I want something improved, it is the load time.
3. Content
It is partly Ad driven with rotating banners and it is a news magazine. Then there have do be very different colours and graphics. News papers / magazines usually have a lot of sections, with different colours and fonts. It is a digital news magazine and it fits well to my screens. I use a Matrox graphics card for dual screens and it fits nicely to the 17 and 19 inch screen in IE. Same in my verision of Opera and Firefox. I think it loads faster in Opera 8.5, but since I am from Norway, I may be biased.
4. Scrolling
I look for content and information and it looks very much the same as Norwegian digital news magazines that I am used to. I have no problems with scrolling.
5. Code.
The load time, is that due to the heavy use of tables? Would it load faster with less use of tabels and more CSS? You use Google and Yahoo in the KW tags. Some mean that should not be done. I have no problem with it, but do not know US practice or standard. What about loading the upper sections before the lower?
6. Conclusion.
I started by looking at the green indicator and thought. It is an electronic newsmagazine. Do you know of any much better? I have a lot of links in my collection, but can not rememeber other digital
magazines that have much better design and layout. If I find one that sets a standard, I will post the link. Another site with much information, graphics, navigation and sections? I thought of
http://nasdaq.com/ and
http://www.cboe.com/, but that is not news magazines. There is a great difference between these two sites. The first loads much faster. In an ideal world, you should make a site that can be viewed in any browser, even in
http://lynx.browser.org/, on any connection and in any screen. That is in an ideal world. I think
the most critical factor is load time.
If you think for the future, more and more information will be available on mobile phones. Tv is available today. In the next step you may try to make a version for the mobile phone. That project should have the effect of improving the code for the W3 version of the site. Cooperation with Sun (java for mobile solutions), Nokia and Opera?