Help needed for University!

[Hunted]

1) Are you colour blind? -no

2) Do you have any kind of disablility that makes it harder to use the computer? -no
3) What colours do you think works well in a website - Blues,purple,green, red,white,black.
4) what is your prefered method of navigation? ( buttons, fancy menus, a frame on the left with links on the right etc.)- either long list of buttons on the left hand side with dropdown sub-menus or on top of the page
5) What would you prefer fast and simple or pretty and complex.- fast and simple
6) What Screen size do you use? - 1600xXXXX I forget
7) what number of colours do you use? as many as possible
8) What browser do you use? - Internet explorer Period.

Edit: 9) 26
10) Male

Good luck.

 

[Liz]

Just realised I didn't put age & sex! Could be relevant, as everyone else replying seems to be male & 20s or younger.

Sex - female (doh!)
Age - 41

 

[Munkeh]

1) Are you colour blind?
No
2) Do you have any kind of disablility that makes it harder to use the computer?
No
3) What colours do you think works well in a website
Dark text on pastel shades
4) what is your prefered method of navigation? ( buttons, fancy menus, a frame on the left with links on the right etc.)
I personally like flash sites... but if not then nav bar on the left
5) What would you prefer fast and simple or pretty and complex.
Somewhere inbetween, Just remember but not too fancy as its easy to overdo it!
6) What Screen size do you use?
1024x768
7) what number of colours do you use?
32
8) What browser do you use?
IE
9) Age
17
10) Gender
Male

 

[Jules]

1) No
2) Doubtful
3) I like blues, my work site have pretty cool schemes ( www.hoarelea.com)
4) simple expandable menu on the left works well
5) It can be simple and pretty (www.lookandfeel.com)
6)1400x1050
7) 16 bit (runs a little quicker than 32)
8) IE
9) 20
10) male

Look and feel ( www.lookandfeel.com ) has to be the best website in my view, pretty, quite simple, but entertaining, but they are a design company afterall.

 

[manike]

1) Are you colour blind?

yes.

2) Do you have any kind of disablility that makes it harder to use the computer?

Lazyness and the fact I am using one 16 hours a day pretty much

3) What colours do you think works well in a website

Black and white, blue, not pink or yellow or red text EVER!

4) what is your prefered method of navigation? ( buttons, fancy menus, a frame on the left with links on the right etc.)

As much as possible with the mouse. I have fast keys for going back etc on the mouse. Having to drag the mouse back to the top of the screen for navigating is a pain. I like bulletin boards where you can navigate from the top or the bottom of the page for speed. speed is the key, if more complex = speed then it's worth it.

5) What would you prefer fast and simple or pretty and complex.

fast, and pretty please, along with easy/rapid navigation.

6) What Screen size do you use?

effing huge. I run a CAD/CAM company and have the screen resolution up at 1400 X 1050.

7) what number of colours do you use?

True colour (32 bit)

8) What browser do you use?

microsoft internet explorer.

 

[QuackingPlums]

1) Are you colour blind?
No
2) Do you have any kind of disablility that makes it harder to use the computer?
No
3) What colours do you think works well in a website
no more than 4 well-matched colours, plus a contrasting darker colour for text
4) what is your prefered method of navigation? ( buttons, fancy menus, a frame on the left with links on the right etc.)
Simple menu down the side or across the top.
NOT stupid target cursors, NOT "mystery meat" rollovers... Not a great fan of Flash interfaces either... , but www.lookandfeel.com and www.2advanced.com are two examples of nice looking Flash interfaces...
5) What would you prefer fast and simple or pretty and complex.
depends on the site content. functional/informational sites should be fast and simple. Flashy brochure sites can do what they like...
6) What Screen size do you use?
1400x1050 (on my laptop ) but 1152x864 mostly on my other computers, but I think web sites should work well down to 800x600
7) what number of colours do you use?
32bit
8) What browser do you use?
IE

Edit: 9) Age
28
10) Gender
Bloke

By the way, my company have recently been asked by a large UK institution to look into ways of improving their company intranet, and one thing I've noticed partially sighted people often do is whenever they come across a page that has mainly black text on white background, they hit CTRL-A to select the whole page, thus making it white on blue, which must be easier for them to read.

Also as already mentioned, the RNIB site has a wealth of information about how to make things accessible to the partially sighted.

 

[Tortoise-Licker]

1) Are you colour blind?
NO
2) Do you have any kind of disablility that makes it harder to use the computer?
None apart from sausage fingers that have a mind of thier own and the voices in my head which tell me to type things
3) What colours do you think works well in a website
dark background light text
4) what is your prefered method of navigation? ( buttons, fancy menus, a frame on the left with links on the right etc.)
buttons that upload fast
5) What would you prefer fast and simple or pretty and complex.
Fast and simple which doesn't envolve me downloading the latest all singing all dancing program to run it
6) What Screen size do you use?
14 inch lcd screen running 1024 by 768
7) what number of colours do you use?
32bit
8) What browser do you use?
Internet explorer.
9) Age
29, 30 next month
10) Gender
Male

 

[Graham (Donkey's)]

1) Are you colour blind? Nope

2) Do you have any kind of disablility that makes it harder to use the computer? Nope

3) What colours do you think works well in a website Blues/Purples

4) what is your prefered method of navigation? ( buttons, fancy menus, a frame on the left with links on the right etc.) Buttons

5) What would you prefer fast and simple or pretty and complex. Fast & Complex :>

6) What Screen size do you use? 1024 *768 (Would be higher but TFI does not support.)

7) what number of colours do you use? 32Bit

8) What browser do you use? Internet explorer. V6.0

9) Age 18

10) Gender male

 

[Rich S]

1)NO
2) no
3) yellow and purple
4) buttons
5)or pretty and complex.
6) 19inch
7) millions
8) IE

9) 21
10) male

 

[Collier]

1) Are you colour blind?
No.
2) Do you have any kind of disablility that makes it harder to use the computer?
No
3) What colours do you think works well in a website
Light colours for background, dark for foreground.
4) what is your prefered method of navigation? ( buttons, fancy menus, a frame on the left with links on the right etc.)
Menu & Buttons
5) What would you prefer fast and simple or pretty and complex.
Fast and Simple.
6) What Screen size do you use?
17"
7) what number of colours do you use?
256
8) What browser do you use?
I.E.
9) Age
25
10) Gender
Male.

Paul