Re-Doing Our School's Page- Want Input

[robot180]

Like always, I have a bunch of opinions.

First of all, not about the website, I have never had a problem with tables. In fact, it helps to keep things very organized, at least the way I do it. The method you use to code the site is unique to the web designer. Asking for input from users generally refers to how the page runs in a web browser. If they want to use tables and get it to work, that is their choice. If the page doesn't load right, that's a different story.

I think the navigation is pretty good. I easily made my way around the site and found the information I was looking for. (I wasn't looking for anything, but, you know.) A great job was done on the navigation bar, it is interactive yet simple. However, there are a few things that could be done about the home page. First of all, I like to see somewhat of a border around the page. The navigation bar and above doesn't in that case, but the rest of the page contents should have a couple of pixels at least of space seperating it from the side of the page. I like how the page uses basic colors, but has an image that is bright and attractive. I don't like how that image is slightly cut off at the bottom. I would leave the image, but make it smaller to almost fill the same amount of space, but leave some room under it so that you can see the whole thing without scrolling down. The site could use a little more interactive features. Try changing the hyperlink hover color. Leave the navigation bar. If the rest of the page was a bit more interactive, it would seem even more useful and helpful. It looks like something that someone put some work into, not a little kid's webpage or a "computer generated" FLASH website. I don't know if you did use flash, but it doesn't matter.

If you redesign the website, use some ASP or PHP. This will allow you to do more.

Good luck!