"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
...
I started a thread on this subject a while back and you guys gave a lot of
great suggestions. I could not find the original thread so I started a
new
one. (maybe it was somewhere else where I started the thread) Anyway,
here
is what I have done with my personal site based on what you guys had to
say.

After much review I have taken a lot of the advise you guys gave me and
revamped one of my websites:

http://www.YumaBassMan.com

SNIP


Bob,
Looks good.... Only thing I would suggest is to set your resolution to
at least 800 X 600 (maybe a little lower) and review your layout. It's a
little wide, requiring a lot of horizontal scrolling. People will leave
your page out of frustration because of this seemingly minor issue.
At the same time, try resizing your browser smaller, and watch how your
page adjusts to that new window size. It really shouldn't immeidately
require horizontal scrolling. Obviously, there are limits to what you would
like your minimum viewable area to be, but many people work with several
windows open at a time and will not be viewing your page with a full width
or height browser. Height isn't nearly as important, since people are
already used to scrolling, but an endless lenght of vertical height will
also detract from your site. Better to make links to other content after
they have scrolled about a full browser down into your page....And as
always, there are exceptions to this. A page like the Fishing Directory on
the ROFB site is a good example (http://www.rofb.net/comm_links.htm).
That's why it has the hyperlinks at the top, to quickly jump to the section
of the page people are interested in...


Just my two cents... Good luck with your site!
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Andrew Kidd
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