Solar site

Alison Carroll Wellford (acw9g@faraday.clas.virginia.edu)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 21:15:49 -0500 (EST)

The Solar page's graphics are engaging, appealing, and work well with the
cohesive whole of the page. However, I am in agreement with the other
critiques in that I think the first page needs some sort of quick
explanation of the page's function, but it should be presented in a manner
that doesn't detract from the clean cut graphics. Perhaps display this
quote in the form of some shape in between the hypertexts: math, english,
science, etc.

I think that the sun graphic works well with the sky background, and I'm
not sure if it is intentional, but I like the fact that the sun sort of
radiates a bit when you click on to a corresponding hypertext. I'm not
sure I'm convinced with the graphic that depicts a teacher with two
children, it seemed like something you got off of a clip art program.
(which you may have) And not that this is necessarily negative, it's just
that the rest of your page is so clean that it seems out of place there.
Also, if it's possible, the animated 2+2=5/4 would look smart if it were
contained within a smaller white box. The light bulb, in comparison, is
way too small and needs to centered and brushed up a bit to look more
sharp. The Links hypertext on that page also needs a graphic element,
perhaps the cartoon graphic of a child's drawing of a school house would
work well here.

I empathize with your having to deal with only a small amount of data,
it's clear that there is still much to post. Surely then the data will
reveal itself in a more terse fashion once you have received the whole of
it. But for now, I find that the Math section to be well mapped out,
incorporating both well thought out design and markup elements.

A few minor thoughts:
On the Mathematical Standards of Learning page, the "of Learning" part is
ascew to the rest of the title, but I'm sure you're probably aware of
this. Also I was impressed with your lesson plan, etc. page, quite
good.

I'd give you an A.
byebye, alison.--