Joe Burns

************************************************************ HTMLGOODIES EXPRESS ™ October 30, 2000–Newsletter #104 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warrior, You are reading newsletter number 104. That means I have officially been writing this newsletter for two years. I know that statement will prompt someone to do mathematics to tell me I had been doing it for two […]

Praise: Up front – the author, Chris Pohle, got the entire concept right. Lime Ricky’s are fun drinks. The Web site should be fun. It should look like a party page. He certainly gets that across. Look at the title text. There are lemons and limes. There’s a small image of the store all lit […]

Web Design Goodies Critique #7 Published October 24, 2000 By Joe Burns, Ph.D. Greetings, Fellow Designers There’s no doubt about it, I love all of the neat tricks you can slap onto a Web site. I like the scrolls, the animation, the Flash, and all the other stuff. The problem with loving all of that […]

************************************************************ Goodies to Go ™ October 23, 2000–Newsletter #103 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear… If you like to surf fast, go to an airport lounge soon. Three major airlines are working to set up wireless, high- speed access for their customers. I grabbed Netscape 6.0 when it first […]

Web Design Goodies Critique #6 Published October 18, 2000 By Joe Burns, Ph.D. Greetings, Fellow Designers I have said many times that I believe content is king. A Web site must provide a killer app to survive. But if content is kingwhat’s next? What is the second most important thing in a Web site? Easy […]

Concern #1: I would think I’m much like anyone else. When I go into a Web site, I expect to see images. Mason has mainly support images here. He does have swinging wedding bell animations, but past that–nothing more than the credit cards he accepts. Nothing screams wedding. Suggestion: The home page needs to scream […]

************************************************************ HTMLGOODIES EXPRESS ™ October 16, 2000–Newsletter #102 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear There is a bill before the U.S. congress dubbed the Million Email March put forth by Rick Boucher, Democrat from Virginia. If it passes, it would be legal to make a digital copy of a […]

Web Design Goodies Critique #5 Published October 11, 2000 By Joe Burns, Ph.D. Greetings, Fellow Designers How do your eyes move across a page in a book? Left to right and top to bottom, correct? When you were putting together your Web page, did you take that into account? One design flaw I see often […]

Concern #1: The background on the home page is stunning, but the background changes on each page after the home page. There is still a consistency because the backgrounds are all sidelines running down the left side of the browser screen, but I still would have liked to see the same, or at least a […]

************************************************************ HTMLGOODIES EXPRESS ™ October 9, 2000–Newsletter #101 ************************************************************ Please visit https://www.htmlgoodies.com ************************************************************ Greetings, Weekend Silicon Warriors, Did you hear You would think that the government that created the rules for Web security would make sure that their own sites met those standards, wouldn’t you? Nope. Out of 65 U.S. government sites tested against the […]

Web Design Goodies Critique #4 Published October 03, 2000 By Joe Burns, Ph.D. Greetings, Fellow Designers… Do I have any dentists out there? Let’s see a show of hands. Good. Open wider. Okay, now spit. This is the third time I have asked people to submit Web sites for critique. The vast majority of those […]

Concern #2: The tooth and the gold-winged image in the banner ad are grainy. My guess is that they were both much larger images that were sized down to fit in the spaces. Suggestion: Not all images resize very well. The tooth did better than the gold element. I can really see the halo around […]