VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Deirdre · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:43 pm Post subject: Need your help, boardies!

Can you please help test drive and try to break the newly-redesigned

PatFraley.com?

asnively · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:52 pm Post subject:

I love the look of everything, but it loads a little slow for me, and I'm on a industrial-strength DSL connection.
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Tom Greenlee · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:58 pm Post subject:

It loaded up just fine for me. I love it. Great looking and easy to navigate.
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Frank F · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:20 pm Post subject:

Dogone it, I was all set to rave about it, but then...

I decided to just say "DB, you have done it again! Another HIT in your credentials. This site for Mr. Fraley is right on target".

And you thought I was going to say somthing ba-a-a-d, didn't you?

Pat, Aren't you glad I didn't "rave", you would have been so embarassed...

Oh, No bugs from my end... no little critters on your end either. (Edit: after a better/longer look) I might suggest you put a description or title on each page... with a few word description of what it is about... "DB.com/voices Simply the best"

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Hart · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:24 pm Post subject:

Loaded just fine for me. I didn't find any missing links. Everything looks good.

Search engines aren't going to like the home, demos, or producing pages though since there is no text on them. Maybe it's not important for Pat but I thought I'd mention it.

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bobsouer · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:41 pm Post subject:

Deirdre,

Things I like:

Just about everything. It looks wonderful. Keeps what was good about the old site and dresses it up very nicely.

Only other thought:

On my 4 Mbps cable modem I was surprised by the relative slowness of the home page loading the first time.

By the way, I clicked every link, including the bottom right "special" on the home page. Nothing broken. Everything worked just I expected it would.
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Deirdre · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

I have not added the alt text yet.
It will be in the source, so it will be picked up.

I also wish I had the ability to have rollover images for the "add to cart" and "view cart" buttons, but I haven't been able to find a way to rectify them within the <form> code.

Also regarding slowness--

I don't know what to tell you about this!
The image for the index page is 344kb. Not a whale.
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glittlefield · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:03 pm Post subject:

Deirdre · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:19 pm Post subject:

Carved up?

I don;t follow.
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Man that looks great! Easy to navigate and loaded right up for me. No problems at all with any of the pages.

SoundsGreat-Elaine Singer · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject:

Deirdre, it looks absolutely great.

On the 'teaching' page, did you mean for the books in 'visit the books page' to be a link? If so, it does not seem to be working.

I am assuming that you did not want his email address on that same page to be clickable.

In the 9 Critical Skills and Greatest Cartoon Voice Tricks popups there is no button for 'view cart' although that button does appear in all the other book popups.

Great job!
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Deirdre · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:13 pm Post subject:

ConnieTerwilliger · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:20 pm Post subject:

I never browse full screen, so all the pages had scroll bars top and bottom - hate that.

Right now, for example, I have the screen set to show the usual width of the message board and the images seem framed more to the right side than centered. I use IE for PC - Windows XP.

And I also had some slow loading pages the first time I accessed - DSL.

It loaded half the page top to middle and then the bottom popped in.
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Deirdre · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject:

I was thinking of you--really!

The only page with a display bigger than 800x600 pixels is the books for sale page, which is longer.

VO-BB has a dynamic set to it-- so it can really stretch or squash.
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glittlefield · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject: