New team 73 site

[Greg Needel]

our web team has worked very hard on this site and even though the due date is today they would like some feedback on their site

http://www.bausch.com/usfirst/

[theory6]

It's a really good website and I love the intro picture with the arrows pointing in a circle towards sponsors and FIRST. Thats just really great.

I love the simplicity, which is extremely effective especially in the buttons. Simple mouseovers work great on your website.

As for suggestions:

Have some kind of chat/forum area. I saw the Tigerbolt chat thing but you should really have something done by yourself, perhaps a forum or guestbook?
I didn't see any picture galleries, that will be good, trying to portray a kind of story through pictures.

That's all I found wrong with the site however it looks great and I wish you the best of luck for the Web Award!

[evulish]

My only comment is with your some of your pictures. You should scale down the thumbnails in a photo editor rather than specifying the size in the <img> tag. Thumbnails shouldn't be any bigger than 20k, usually. Your 'thumbnails' seem to be around 2 megabytes. Even full-size images on the web should RARELY be that big (especially not for pictures of one person!). I maximized http://www.bausch.com/usfirst/Images/photoMentor2.JPG in my browser in my 1280x854 resolution and I could see over to the right side of her eyes and the bottom of the eyes. That was only like 1/6th of the image. It's painful on even broadband users. Try to keep them around 1024x768.

[894|mike]

It's a really nice design. It's got some good info, but it lacks revisit value(nothing to come back to). Forums or a guestbook would help alot.

I agree with evulish. The images should be reduced to the size that they'll actually be.