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I've spent quite a bit of time on my website in the past two months and learned more about html than I ever thought I'd need to. I didn't get everything on my site exactly the way I wanted it, but I think I've done a decent job. Before I offically open for business, I'd like to get some feedback from a few of you. Any comments or suggestions would be helpful. Click on my logo below to get to my site.

Thank you in advance.

~Marcy~

Marcy,

Love the site...Just a few things I am feeling off about-You're choice to keep or change:

1. On your home page the beautiful boat pic in the middle throws me off-you ask those questions above it but I have to scroll to the answers, kind puts me off but again your choice.
2. On the Order and Quote pages--The scrolling on the iFrame is weird, maybe try changing that a little-resize or such of the iFrame and disable scrolling--just seems odd.
3. On the Promotion tab-The sidescrolling throws me off but probably OK since I would just print the coupon anyway.

Anyway just trying to help.

~Ghoster~

Also if you can let me know how you did the services page....I am trying to get my FAQs to expand like that.....Thanks

Thanks for the input, I wasn't too sure about the scroll bars either, so I'll probably change that tomorrow. I've been working on some more tweaks that I think will work well.

For the services page I just used the sourse code from a page that I found and then editied it for my information. That was probably the best tip that I found during my html crash course.  I'm not even going to try to pretend that I know what half of the other stuff means. (JavaScript, CSS, XLST - I have no clue) There is an good example of an expandable list at http://www.widomaker.com/~reboughner/W3C/lists/list1.htm. Just select "source" from the "View" menu and then edit that. I also found a really good HTML editor (and free) at http://www.htmlkit.com/ in case you don't have one.

I think that it looks very professional. I agree with Ghoster about the boat picture though, it doesn't quite fit into the theme of the page. Also, on the refer-a-friend page you might want to actually tell the people what the discount is. Did you use store manager for the order form page?

I used the OLXT form generator for my order form and my quote form. ( http://olxt.com/formgenerator.aspx ) had to do a lot of editing to get the layout the way I wanted it, but the form generator is the only way I could find to custimize a form that way. I tried to use the form designer, but it puts everything in one long column and that just wouldn't work for what I needed.

I used the color picture on my home page, because I wanted to let customers know that I don't just deal with old or black & white pictures. I do a lot of color pictures too. In fact the DVD slideshows that I have done were mostly color pictures from vacations and such. I suppose it isn't crutial to have it on my home page, but I thought that since that's the first thing customers will see, I should include a color picture of some kind. Perhaps I could use one of the other pictures that I have in my gallery there.

What HTML code did you use to get you signature to post here. Mine is just text.

It's actually my logo image which I created using Word Art. I just inserted the image and added a hyperlink to my home page

 <a href="http:// your website.com"><img src="your image here" width="???" height="??"/></a>