Re: Penrith - Keswick railway project.
- From: Marra <cresswellavenue@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:05:40 -0700
On 1 Jun, 23:08, Stephen Furley <fur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1 Jun, 13:16, Charlie Hulme <i...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
CedricCKP wrote:
Good afternoon everybody.
This is Cedric Martindale, Director of CKP Railways plc.
Well, you say you are - it might have been more convincing if you had
posted from something resermbling the email address advertised on your site.
The website is managed voluntarily by one of our supporters.
I personally think you need to have a few words with him. It's
giving a very bad impression of your company.
A simple site which did not stick a picture
of a DMU on my screen that I had to shut down my browser
to get rid of would be a little better for a start.
Charliehttp://www.davenportstation.org.uk
Well, I have three different e-mail addresses, and I sometimes have to
post from one which is not the most appropriate. What he writes
sounds like it could be genuine. Assuming that he really is Cedric,
then I have this to say:
Cedric, thank you for taking the time to post to this group; your
input is welcome, and deserves to be read, but I do think that you
should address some of the issues which have been raised here in the
past.
Regarding the website, you really do need to make some changes to it.
Please at least consider the following suggestions, or ask your web
designer to consider them:
Text demands to be read; putting greyed-out text (on the Portis
tickets) in the background is a bad idea; it distracts from the actual
text of the site.
Tiled images seldom work well as a background, unless they're designed
in such a way that the final result appears continuous, without an
obvious repeat. The repeated tickets, and the 'CKP-Railways plc' look
really bad, and add nothing to the site. I'm seeing three and a half
repeats across my screen; it just looks a mess. a plain background
would me much less distracting.
A few of the many items on the site are listed on that white on blue
menu. When you scroll the screen (I'll come back to that in a moment)
the menu scrolls up with it, but then when you release the mouse
button it drops back to its original position on the screen - usually
covering up something else underneath it. Please get rid of this
thing; it's really annoying. If you only make one change to the site,
please let it be this one.
I'm not a great fan of the flash, or something similar, animated
graphics on the front page. Again it is distracting.
There's a lot of material on the site, and just about everything seems
to be on the front page; you seem to have to scroll down forever to
reach the end of it. It would be much better if the front page didn't
have to scroll; put a small number of links to the various sections on
it, not tables full of dozens of links, and then when you get past
these the style of the page changes competely. Why are there lots of
pictures there, why aren't they in the pictures section.
The new floating menu has just been put on as a trial.
You simply cant put all the pictures on one page.
The same goes for the articles.
The site aims to give as much info as possible.
The tables simply index the pages, it cant get much simpler.
Its only recently that 13 websites were reduced to 2 !
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