GUNS/BARMS

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Wow ONEBGG!! You been Busy!

I like the way it looks. Like the two columns of buttons. Very flexible too - you can always expand by making more buttons a little bit smaller and still keep the feel. Plus you can change around images in the middle section as well for variety.

I really like that it has large fonts and it was designed to fit in an 800 X 600 screen resolution. My eyes are failing and that's the smallest I can comfortably see.

Some people might have different opinions but I say scr*w them - it works - it's eye catching - and it's yours. As for design - I'll always defer to the creator's wishes.

If you want to make money on the site, maybe a professional web designer would give good advice - but I ain't one of them.

The size of the site (in Kb) is reasonable - about 350Kb. It should download okay for folks without broadband.

If download speed is ever an issue, you can always downgrade the quality of gifs and jpgs (Edit them and decrease the resolution) a little. They'll get smaller in Kb and faster to download. It takes a little playing but you can almost always gain download speed that way with no perceptible decrease in quality.

I'd consider making your links open in new windows instead of depending on the "Back" button to return after viewing a link. That way the user closes the new window and your site is right there behind it.

Couple reasons - sometimes you click a link to another site - and that site gets redirected to yet another. It's very difficult - sometimes impossible - to get to the original site using the "Back" button. The user gets frustrated and needs to start all over.

Also - for modem users - and considering that Angelfire can get slow at times - going back means that the user will need to reload the entire site again. At that point it can get frustrating as well.

Go For It!!!

btw - I've been poking a couple more links on http://2ndamndmnt.mine.nu:911/onebgg lately as well. Can't keep up with the articles but every time I find an interesting discussion board or reference site I toss a link to it. Hopefully I can put a flurry of effort together this spring / summer and get some more recnt info.

I get quite a few hits on the site from all around the world - and the only place it has ever been posted is here and on RB BARMS - so you have some following going on.