Site Review: Horse Racing

[Bobby Furlong]

Sites been up for a while, but I always have the fear that it only works on my machine. ;)

http://www.ieahstables.com/cgi-bin/home.cgi

[B&T]

Clicked around a little. Works fine for me. Looks good.

[(jj)]

Looks and works fine using Mozilla FireFox. A few pages seemed slow to load for me, but the overall net has been rather sluggish this evening.

[B&T]

but the overall net has been rather sluggish this evening.What do you expect in ND? I am surprised the bits can make it up that far :)

[BWD]

That's a beautiful site. Clean and simple, but not boring. I like that it didn't stretch my screen on 800x600 resolution, even the photo page was fine. Some might find the ticker tape news bothersome, but you have it scrolling very slow, so maybe not. Cool how you can hover over the << arrows and have it scroll faster. If you want me to nitpick (do you? :p) I would say I don't like the blue text (on the upper right and also used for active links). It doesn't seem to fit with the colour scheme somehow and just looks like that awful link default blue.

All in all, a terrific job though.

[Bobby Furlong]

Thank you everyone for your input. I really appreciate it.

I obsess over things fitting in 800x600, so I'm glad you noticed, and I also agree with you on the bright blue. I was trying to incorporate the colors on their silks into the site, which are actually that color, and not the navy blue you see on the silks in the left column. I think I will change it to either navy or maybe even a dark green.

Did anyone watch any of the races? I only offer the wmp format, which is probably not the best approach, but it seemed like the easiest way to reach the most people. thanks again.

OT: Shining Hawk in the 1st race today at Belmont should run well. worth a bet, depending on the odds...

[tacimala]

I think the site looks great and I really enjoyed the layout and the pictures. One thing that caught my eye though on the links page was links to several casino and gambling sites. You are sending some big red flags to search engines by linking to sites like that. You may want to ask yourself if the money earned by referrals to those sites is worth the loss in traffic from search engines. Other than that I think the site the looks great!

[Bobby Furlong]

I feel the same way, but these gambling sites are friends of the owner, and so I have no choice. They also want me to build a flash intro for them, which I've been trying to put off for months, because I am strongly against such intros. They're starting to lean on me a little more, so I may have to give in on that front too. Oh well, but thanks for your help.