I'm starting a new television show, which features a supporting website. The website has streaming video via Macromedia flash. I wanted to post and have people look at the site and make sure it works okay. If you have any comments or feedback I would appreicate that as well. Thanks!

http://www.respotlight.com

Guy Thomas
High Desert Real Estate Spotlight

Guy -

I looked at your site, and here's my two cents.

Design
The biggest thing about the design is that it is unique. That is huge. It captured my attention and actually made me read the page, because it didn't look like something that was chopped up and put together in an hour.

Accessibility: Images
When I turned images off, I couldn't use your search, or find the advertise page. You need to make sure that ALL of your informative images either have alt text, or are replaced by real text.

Accessibility: Javascript
Works fine with JavaScript off EDIT:Your "back to search results" button doesn't work. The only noticable difference is that the links don't react when you mouse-over them. You can fix this by turning your javascript event listeners into CSS styling. Not necessary, but nice.


Accessibility: Browsers
For all the broswers I checked it in, it worked great!


Accessibility: Other
When I resized to 800x600, your site created a horizontal scroll bar. According to W3Schools , 20% of people still use 800x600 resolution. That's a lot of people you could potentially turn away because your page doesn't display properly. Trust me, horizontal scroll bars will lose you potential customers.


Usability
The navigation is logical, colors contrast enough, pages are cross referenced. The code could be written in a semantic manner, but that's outisde the scope of this review.

Overall
For the manner in which this site was created, it is well made. The biggest thing that I think is essential to fix, is to make sure it doesn't give a horizontal scroll bar @ 800x600 resolution. Everything else works just great for general use!

-TJ

TJ,
Thanks for your review, it really is quite helpful. Sometimes I get into trouble designing for lower resolution and trying to keep it unique. I will have to look into possible alternatives.

Guy Thomas
High Desert Real Estate Spotlight