[robot180]

As a fellow web designer, I know that negative feedback is very important and people are afraid to give it because they think you will hate them for saying things about your site, even though that is why you asked. Here is my opinion about your website.

Left/right scrolling is not a good thing. People have to scroll up and down, which usually is easy because most people use scroll wheels, but when they have to stop where they are and move the mouse arrow down to the bottom and concentrate on moving the scroll bar, they can get annoyed. I would suggest putting everything into a table or div tags or something and setting the width to like 700 pixels or whatever so that it is slightly narrower than most browsers. Remember that some browsers, like MSN, has a large toolbar on the left.

It might be a good idea to change the font color of the table of contents on the home page to white and make it more bold. Also, there is a CSS command that is something like "text-decoration" or something that will automatically capitalize the first letter of every word.

You could try making the table of contents unique for the home page and making sort of a very narrow, horizontal naviagtion bar, with the same links as the table of contents, to go accross the top of every page besides the home page.

I don't have very much of a problem with the colors. I like darker colors because it is better on your eyes. Maybe putting some more, brighter, graphics would do better than changing the colors. Try making a bright logo to put in the top left corner of each page. You could even use div tags to move the website's title so that it overlaps the logo. Remember to use GIF's though, since this logo will show up on every page, it won't slow down the loading of each page as much as a jpeg would.

Another idea is to add some kind of hovering effect in the table of contents to make it a bit more interactive. Use the onMouseOver and onMouseOut to change the color of the buttons when the mouse moves over them.

I may have said this already but...I like a little animation in a website, just as long as it doesn't take to long. That is one thing that I liked about the FIRST website. It would be better, though, if it was only on the home page, or if you could set it up so that it only did that on the first page that the person goes to on your website. After that, the table of contents just pops up like usual.

I am legally blind. I am also the web master for a website for the blind and visually handicapped. If my vision was even worse, I might complain that the font is too small, but that isn't something to really worry about. However, if you are trying to sell stuff, like amazon.com or something, customers who are partially blind and go to your website that can't read it, they may leave and you will loose the buisness. (I can read the font by the way.)

I am sure that if I had more time, I could list a few more ideas. Feel free to give negative comments about my website in the thread: something about w3c validation. I could use the comments.