Visions & Insights

[gcwood]

I'm just getting my first subdomain at the new casawood domain with PowWeb. I have not done a main site yet and I am working on updating the challenges on the link page but I would like input on the ease of the site overall.

http://visions.casawood.com/

Thanks for taking a look and providing feedback to help me improve this site. It will help as I develop other sites also.

Gary

[gcwood]

I really appreciate all of the input and time you invested. I am trying to get away from Bravenet all together. Thanks for pointing out the guestbook. It doesn't surprise me as I have not used it for some time. I tried to bring this old site off my hard drive. There are many links and Bravenet refrences I need to get rid of.

I am not sure about the coding error fixes and all but you have given me some great lessons. As you can tell I am a real novice at websites. Again, I appreciate the nice write to guide me, a wonderful foundation.

Also, your jazz site is great! I just purchased an electronic keyboard, I listen to jazz often and love writing and hope to one day play.

Thanks again, I will get to work on learning and fixing...

[amo]

Gary,

A couple of things I noticed. These aren't really things you asked about, so forgive me for "meddling."

1. I didn't look at every poem, but I saw several different typefaces, colors, and both left-aligned and centered poems. Unless you have a compelling reason to do so, I would stick with a similar style for each poem page. Conversely, you could make each one different, perhaps with illustrations specific to the poem, etc. However, right now, I don't get a feeling of consistency from page to page *or* any sense that the style of each page was customized to the poem.

2. Related to #1, but different. On my monitor (1024 x 768 pixels), some of your shorter works scrolled off the bottom of the screen because the font size was large or because there was large spacing between them. IMHO, I'd try to get the shorter poems to stay on one page for as many screen resolutions as possible.

On the whole, though, the site is easy to navigate and professional. I enjoyed looking at it.

I'm a poet, too, and I look forward to looking more closely at your work! (I promise I won't critique here! :) )

-amo
www.amopage.com

[gcwood]

Some very good suggestions indeed. I will try to figure out how to make some adjustments once I get time. Your right, no real rhyme or reason and there should be because the content tends to rhyme although some of the poetry has no reason.

I really appreciate the time you invested and the feedback you have left. It means a great deal to me.

Gary

[amo]

Glad I could help :)