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Hey guys... I thought I'd run this past you all before I took it live.
Shannon McRandle (formerly Shannon Baksa), the woman who modeled for the Star Wars character, Mara Jade, for Decipher's RPG game has hired me to redevelop her website. I'm almost ready to go and currently have a holder page up.
Before I go, though, I want to see what you all think of the navigation, usability, and design...
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Well, a lot of the text is very hard to make out (like the "Content � 2002 Shannon McRandle and FourWest Media. Developed and maintained by Fourwest Media." on the front page, say, or some of the text on the Contact page) unless you hover over it or highlight it.
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Yes... she's pointed out that the dark purple text isn't showing up real well on darker monitors. I need to go back and change it to something else. I've used that color for text throughout the site Oh well... it won't be too hard to change...
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Good text layout, but a bit more contrast is needed in the colors. Pretty classy layout.
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There is certainly an unfortunate aspect to it, yes And, I see what you guys mean about the color contrast... on darker monitors, it probably gets pretty dark all over, huh?
Fortunatly, I have most of the images saved as layered files, so it shouldn't be too hard to brighten them all up and resave. I definitely do that before it goes live...
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Really nice.....although my mind wanders at the "Hire Shannon" part....
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Thats actually a really nice site, so don't kill me when I make a few suggestions
1. In the quiz area, it would be nice to automate the marking with some scripting...ala quizzes in the Spark, otherwise most people will just pass by. Yes, our generation's short attention spans are really annoying.
2. There's some really dense reading on the "Players" page. Might be nice to break that up with most distinct paragraph breaks, or even a few images to show, instead of tell facts. I don't envy that task however, it really is compressing a heck of a lot of information in two people.
3. Although the title page does say "The Official..." in the browser title bar, certain others have "The Offical..." At least many pages in the Mara Jade area do.
Load time does not seem to be a problem...although she is uh, a bit distracting, so I might not be judging properly here...
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1. The quizes. We're working on automated code for the quizzes. This was somthing I could get done right away, though, and we wanted to get it up as soon as we could. Hopefully we'll be able to update it in a few months.
2. I'll see about breaking up those paragraphs. You're right... it does look like alot to read. There are a couple reasons I didn't do alot of images of the characters or link to other sites. A) I wanted to keep the Mara Jade side of things less important than the Shannon McRandle side of things since it's supposed to be promoting her. B) I don't want to get in trouble for copyright stuff and I figure the more pictures I use, the more likely it is that either LucasFilm or Dark Horse will tell me to take them off the the site. Stupid copyright laws..
3. I'll fix those spelling mistakes you mentioned. Thanks for your sharp eyes!
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Oh well... it won't be too hard to change...![[Smile]](smile.gif)
And, I see what you guys mean about the color contrast... on darker monitors, it probably gets pretty dark all over, huh?![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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