This month readers look at the Georgetown College Parent's Site; Estate agents in Berkshire (both commented by Gareth Sketty; and a visit to the Urban Arts of Indianapolis with R.J. Rakowski. See these Critique Briefs sent in by readers
This month readers look at Painting by Anne Stahl; the James Anderson Unofficial Site; Georgetown University, the Black Hills Pow Wow Association and one the reviewer says "sucks" the Internet personals/dating site. See these Critique Briefs sent in by readers
This month, Debbie does a pretty thorough critique of the Galvez Family Web site; we get a critique of the Mountain Monarch Adventures site that the Web Review disagrees with; Then we take a look at the NomadLink web site with jerry tamburro; and finally, Linda Rosario gives brief views of Google Yahoo Msn Positioning. See these Critique Briefs sent in by readers
Reviewer Mike Swope observes that this well organized site could use a little strength in branding and clarity... WDR agrees and adds a diagramed example page with subtle CSS tweaks that add polish and purpose to the CEUU Website.
Don't forget to take a look at this month's reader web sites... and then post YOUR web critiques or reviews at Web Design & Review ... Now, see the CEUU Critique.
Reviewer Bennie C. Taylor says:
"at first glance this site seems to be well-organized; but the categories turn out to be inconsistent and confusing" ... perhaps some organization is needed in the Northwest Indiana Catholic newspaper site ... Web Design Critiques for July
This month we also have a collection of quick, Critique Briefs sent in by readers... a design site that claims to be "Part of an award winning Creative Arts team; The Toronto District School Board; a Teen site called Teenopolis; the Alexander Sadoya Art Gallery web site and the Marietta Contact Lens web site. See these ... Critique Briefs sent in by readers
This month Joyce takes a look at the Tomato-Cages web site with a healthy reminder of the right recipe for success. Even Fred can't argue, all web designers need to look at Tomato Cages.com.
Another Web site critique this month comes from Suzanne Fyhrie Parrott from OneWay Advertising and Design. Suzanne says "This site is already good..." then shares some tips and hints to make the site even better. Actually it's a good warm-up for next month's "Design Vacation" ... Mount Rushmore's Black Hills Explorer Vacation Guide
The Web Design & Review team visited the web site of an up and coming young vocalist, but what they found was not what they expected. They had to ask: "What if Randy, Paula and Simon to this web site to evaluate an 'American Idol' contestant? What would they say?" This critique says "wonderful voice!" But to the designer they borrowed Donald Trump's famous phrase: "You're FIRED!" Follow along as WDR critiques the web site of... Thomasinamusic.com
How do you constructively critique someone's work without being taken the wrong way? How do you accept criticism without feeling hurt or angry? Here are just a few ideas, gathered from observations and comments from others. Special guest author Makiko Itoh shares her wisdom on the The Delicate Art of Web Design Critique
Joyce returns to the Web critique department with some good news and some bad for the Sweet Deco of Austria web site. As usual, Joyce does a superb job pin-pointing aspects on various pages of Sweet Deco.Sweet Deco.
Bennie Taylor is back this month with three all new web site critiques. She offers her usual style of excellent suggestions for these web sites. First, she tackles this huge online publication for postal workers called 9th Street Rag. She then turns to the Doctors' Support Net with solid advice. I ask: "If you were a Doctor in need of counselling, would you use this site?" Finally She visits a site that markets K-9 guard dogs and here, even supplies an alternate graphic for the Rolling Meadow Kennels and Canine Training. Find all of these in the Web Design and Review Critique department.Web Critique
Sorry folks. We just didn't get all of the critiques prepared for deployment on the first of March. They'll be arriving in the next week or so. We had a poor turn-out during February, only a few readers decided to share.
Folks, it's a simple mission: find a site you like in the Reviews department, then share your opinions and suggestions. It's simple and takes but a few minutes. Who knows. Maybe you'll like it! Critique A Site
Web designer and popular author/reviewer Mike Swope files these two site critiques: one claiming to be the "Best Stock Photography Site"
-- and another where the site design possibly damages this iCi et la Photography site's very mission!
Then, reviewers Bennie C. Taylor and Fred Showker double-team a web site and tweak existing graphics and concept to improve the: "Air compressors in India" web site.
All these and more in the Web Critique department
This month we have a "nice" critique gone bad when Beth Rogers of Rogers Web Design, goes head to head with your humble editor's brutal counter-critique. You don't want to miss this one! While the editor is on the war path, he also works with reviewer Jon Winchester to tweak the Texas Center for Multicultural Studies web site. And if that weren't enough, Abbeymore BandB is back with a smashing make-over, and a half dozen others get their day in court! WebDesign Critiques
Two reviewers tackle the "American Design Awards" site and Colin Couplans shares a valuable lesson about "content over design" -- plus 5 other critiques in Web Critiques.WebDesign Critiques
D. Burns is back with us again this month with a 2nd critique of the "Faulty Tower Computing" website! (This time without the "American Idol" slant.) The author made changes and requested we return for a second look! While a step in the right direction, Faulty Tower still has a long way to go.
That's what WebDesign & Review is all about, folks! WebDesign Critiques
1. Nethermind site ... hurt by javascripting and aliased graphics
2. Creativity Coach ... found not very "creative"
3. Stickman Murder Mystery Games ... gets a thumbs up review
4. Cambridge Custom ... shows much promise
5. Bauer Photography ... arrival page betrays site's depth of beauty
6. Targhee Sheep Assoc ... good site, needs "calming"
7. Tempest Harding ... redesign of site gets the once-over
Lots of fun and information for all... don't forget: we're looking for your reviews and critiques of our reader's web sites.WebDesign Critiques
From time to time we get an email from a reader who isn't quite as pleased with what they find in the Design Center as most others are. Obviously with the number of visitors the center gets, it would be unreasonable to expect them all to be glad they came. An early lesson learned on the web is that you don't even attempt to please everyone. Nevertheless, we read them all, and when a negative one appears we look closely.
One such critique came last Saturday from a reader identified as 'Mark' who commented:
"At first I thought your whole site was a little basic for being about web design. Then I took a look at your critique page and clicked on the first site, Faulty Tower and thought, what an awful site. I'm talking about your site (The Faulty Tower site is even worse though)."
I've published the entire critique, along with some of my own comments. I also invited Mark to return to the page and give his views on specific design rules broken there.WebDesign Critiques
Bennie C. Taylor is back this month with a look at the "Gallery 209" site commenting: This site needs work -- I would like to see at least one work by each artist to encourage me to visit the gallery and find out what else is there. "Gallery 209" is also reviewed this month by a new reviewer, Karen Cardinal of Cardinal Art, who takes a slightly different slant by investigating the meta tags and coding of the site. Two interesting takes of this site.
Bennie also gives us an extensive discussion of the "2000 Travel Pictures" web site, noting that many of the images there are spectacular, with an amazing variety of subjects -- but cautions a visitor will need much free time or a very fast connection to get the most of out this site because of the very slow-loading images.
Other reviews this month include: Alaska Gold Rush, A Bed & breakfast at Palmer, Alaska -- in need of a bit of content reorganization, and the "10 Commandments within Jesus" site, where reviewer Christina Szalay couldn't seem to get past the background art.
You are encouraged to benefit from these reviews if you're a web designer -- and please, lend your views and critique to those sites posted by your fellow readers.WebDesign Critiques
Two of our frequent web site reviewers are back this month, both looking at two sites posted last month for review.
The Alaska Bed and Breakfast... is heavy on code light on polish, as reviewed by Suzanne Fyhrie of OneWay Advertising and Design. (This is a rare review which looks into the coding of the page as well as Meta tags. GOOD REVIEW!) Then we visit the Chestnuts USA site with an insightful review from Bennie C. Taylor. (Mt. Cheaha Web Design) The GeoProducts site gets two reviews -- Leona says: "Good site, minor problems," and Bennie chimes in with "...good content, confusing navigation."
Then there's a rather curious yet excellent review of the "Creating Good vibrations" site. This one's all about content and not to be missed. WebDesign Critiques
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