http://www.richknitter.com/arkat/

Please have a look at the site above and critique the design and ease of use. Also, it seems to be a bit glitchy in Firefox. If anyone can help me figure out why, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Rich

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Hi Rich

I am viewing this in Mozilla FireFox and one thing I did notice: The bottom LHS corner doesn't join up. Unless of course, its not meant to where I am wasting my time.

Initially, the site looks good: Its clean, simple and theres good use of keywords in both title and navigation. It also resizes well in 800x600 resolution (I was beginning to think I was alone there).

On the downside, your video takes 4 minutes to download (On my Broadband connection which isn't slow) And it is still thinking about it, even 2 minutes later. I assume this .wmv is pretty big? It might pay to optimise it, break it into sections or pre-warn your visitors how big the file is, and how long it should take to load for say a dial-up. Then at least if they want to view it, they don't get put off by the long wait.

Also, your buttons are quite tempremental. On some of the pages, they change from being white font with no underline to standard blue underlined font. Looking at your code, I'd say try having the around the image button and then have a separate around the button text (eg wildlife feeds). It is a shot in the dark and may not be the answer, but tempremental glitches (not the same) occurred for me on MSIE and this method seemed to work.

One other little comment: Your Aqua Feeds data is a little bit cramped in the table. Either the font size needs to be reduced or the table made a bit bigger.

The rest is just nitpicking, ie padding around your images and emphasis on a comment so it doesn't look like a title, but on the whole, well done.

HTH. If you would like me to look further or elaborate on anything, please feel free to contact me.

Best regards

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Deb Harrison
DVH Design
Essex Web Design

Thanks, I'll try changing the <a href=""> tags and see if that fixes it. It's a bizarre glitch that I have never encountered before.

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Well it might not, but it is a bit odd that the buttons were being that tempremental.

If not, I am sure another solution can be found.

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Deb Harrison
DVH Design
Essex Web Design

Some comments on layout. It is punchy with good use of graphics, however, the size of the menu buttons in relation to the content page does limit your room to layout data without it running for miles down the page. You either need to widen your content div or reduce size of menu buttons.

You do, however, have 26 markup errors. You may have missed an end tag for </p>. Some of these will affect how FF renders your site. Some are inconsequential but would be best incorporated into your style sheet.

The other glitches sound like CSS issues and may be worth asking the guys at css-d@lists.css-discuss.org for some insight. i am no expert so don't want to break your site.

It's nearly there.

Cheers

Ian

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Easy to use and navigate.

I would change your title tags to represent what the current page is about rather than have one generic title for the site.