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[Eric T]

http://www.thelegacy-group.com/

Take a look and let me know what you think...

[Jason Gross]

Not a fan of the IFRAME in the center. Scrollbars on both horiz and vert seem -- old school. The logo in the top left suffers from artifacting. The gray "background" doesn't have any separation to the pages white background.

Those are just criticisms, though - which is what I suspect people are looking for when they post here.

[Eric T]

Yep, exactly what I was looking for... You can't learn to do things better without constructive criticism.

[SoopahMan]

Hey there Eric.

The site is fixed-width, and seemingly fixed-height, and the background color in the margins is not set. Consider choosing one - especially for example a darker grey-blue to contrast with the rest of the site. Alternately, try applying a border to the site's area to break it from the margins rather than it feeling like it bleeds into it.

Consider centering the site horizontally.

The GIF compression is indeed too high on the logo and other images at the top.

Because the marquee is the only thing moving, it draws the eye to it. This is a place for a call to action. What does it say? It says something about where the company does and used to operate (what happened?), and then, "Please browse our site," which is a much less effective way of convincing people to do so than to, say, place compelling content on the homepage with links to learn more.

I would move the content of the marquee to a paragraph of text on the homepage and explain a little more about why the changes in states occurred, or why it's meaningful (even if it says "We've expanded to Texas!" or something like that). If it isn't meaningful, I would remove it from the homepage altogether or at least move it to say a "Contact Us" or "About Us" page where company history is better served.

I'd also include some Case Studies or Customer Responses (positive) with a linked title and teaser blurb to get customers to click into the site.

[Eric T]

Thanks for the input... I centered the page and put a blue-gray background color, but they preferred it the other way... go figure. I liked it with the change, so I will just remember that bit of info and use it on my next project.

Not to sound like I'm making an excuse, I'm still learning how to use my graphics tools and the logo is one that they gave me and I was unable to produce anything better.

I talked to them about the marquee when I was building the site and they definitely wanted one, so I set it up so they could enter whatever text they wanted.

This is the first site that I have built where I went out and found the work. So I'm excited that it's finished and that they liked it.

And thanks again for the input...

[Michelle]

Congratulations on doing a nice job on your first site for non-family members or friends. :-)

I'd move the navigation a little to the left. The t at the end of Assignment looks like it's touching the right edge.

Also, the font in the address line isn't consistent.

You are getting a horizontal scrollbar in the i-frame even though it's just text. Make sure you've got the width set to the correct size. I've had the problem before even when the i-frame content page width was set well below the width of the i-frame, and someone told me a trick to get rid of it that is incorrect markup but did work. There must be a correct way to fix the problem somewhere, and hopefully someone will post the right way to do it, but, if you remove the doctype statement from the code on the page within the i-frame the horizontal scroll should disappear.

Michelle

[dbmasters]

I would say if you are going to make a site of totally fixed size, make it fit in 1024x768 without the scrollbar, it only exists to move the site about a 1/4"...seems silly to have it at all.
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