Re: New website

--- "Richard M. Koolish" <koolish@bbn.com> wrote:
> > Leslie,
> >
> > My apologies. I assumed when the cursor didn't change to a pointing hand
> > that a larger image was not available.
> >
> > Your images are even better when enlarged.
> >
> > Bob Russman
>
>
>
> I can't seem to get the enlargements to work with Netscape.
> Works fine with Internet Explorer.

I didn't realize that clicking on the picture brought up a larger version of
the image. I would recommend that that is a major usability problem.
Why are you using Javascript to do this? Don't get me wrong, I love Javascript
(actually, I am teaching a class in it tonight), but in this particular case it
is working as a real negative and is not really giving you any benefits. I
would very highly recommend using standard HTML for links to the larger images.
 I would also suggest not using popup windows, or if you must, to at least use
a window name for all images so that each picture doesn't have to be
individually closed. Also, as Richard noted, the links will not work with old
versions of Netscape, so by not using standard HTML you lock those people out.

Finally, the problem with frames is that you can't point anyone to a particular
area of your website. For instance, instead of sending a link like
http://www.lesliedavispinhole.com/railways.htm to send someone to your Railways
pictures, you have to send them to the main site, then tell them to search for
the proper picture to select, hoping that the rollover image has loaded (two of
them took a long time to load, so at first I had no clue as to what those areas
represented).

Cheers -

george

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Received on Tue Feb 19 12:30:17 2002