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First we would like to thank the four people who critiqued this site. Your comments were both generous and supportive.

The first change we made was first mentioned by Kristin Peasley, she asked if we could link the aforementioned images to the source in which we obtained those images. These images used to be linked to the credits page, but are now linked to their respected source.

The second change we made was first mentioned by Kristin Peasley, she asked that we enlarge the font size. The font size was 11 and the header text (orange in color) was 12, those were changed to 12 and 13 respectively.

The third change we made was first mentioned by Jennifer Manfred, she asked that we make a small pop-up window for the definitions used in the text instead of the direct link (via _blank tag) to dictionary.com. This was first done to give the site a little humor as well as supply some background information. After using the site we discovered that dictionary.com is slow to load, so instead of producing our own pop-up windows, we decided to use education.yahoo.com as our dictionary utility. We found that this site loads much faster than dictionary.com and is a little easier to read. (We also found that there are far more adds on dictionary.com than on Yahoo's site)

Tim Wisner asked that the Javascript near the top of the HTML be single spaced. We didn't make any changes regarding this request. The format of the Javascript isn't a requirement of this course, nor does it make any difference to the performance of this site.

Tim Wisner, also asked that we insert a small description under each of the images we used. After a lengthy discussion within our group we decided to leave the discription out, but to include an "alt" tag for each image. We found that the discription took something away from out "clean" look.

Yin Chen gave us some interesting comments about the content of the site. She suggested some additional research figures regarding the effectiveness of the aesthetic changes computer manufactures made. Market research on this topic was difficult to obtain, and more difficult to find on all 3 products (desktops, laptops, and PDA's). Because of the changing nature of these products we found it very difficult to comply with this request.

 

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