Birth Psychology: Carolina Quintilla, Marisa Jacobs, Noah Freitas and Jason Sanders
Habitat for Humanity: Sarah Fogarty, Shannon McMath, Cynthia Maram, Susan Brennan and Mary Neal Norton aka Kiki
Roller Derby: Jim Anderson, Dian Ross and Chris Caplan
Did not respond:Peter Sammet, Miranda Limonczenko
Those interested in volunteering for 4paws, those who would like to donate and those who would like to recieve services
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If I understand correctly, 4Paws is a non-profit primarily for people with therapy pets, and also as a resource for all pet owners (cats and dogs)
Dog assisted therapy
The organization 4Paws' mission is to ensure and enrich the relationship between people and their pets through education and service.
The site is about animal wellness.
It is about pets and their relationship with their owner, and the health of the pets. To make life meaningful for both pets and people.
Helping Pets and their owners
It is a non-profit dedicated to providing programs on pet care and training, as well as organizing and providing pet therapy and literacy programs.
The site is about 4Paws Learning Center, a great program which helps pets and pet owners to better understand one another.
An organization that provides dogs for therapy reasons
The site is about a volunteer organization that uses dogs to help people, through reading programs and social therapy as well as providing dog owners with information about their pet's health.
Therapy and Learning through dogs
4Paws is an organization whose mission it is to educate the community about the relationship between dogs and humans. There is education for animal owners, training, and outreach with one's pets, as well as how to become a new pet owner.
Dog assisted therapy
Tone and feeling - bold and simple with great images of people and animals together.
Friendly, colorful, informative.
Friendly, kind and inviting
The overall feel and tone was muted, quiet and soft. Nice choice of colors.
Nice mix of colors. Simple and succinct layout.
It's very colorful and friendly but a bit boxy, at least on the home page.
Warm and friendly, inviting.
The bright colors and the textures help to make this site appealing and fun, while the clear, concise lines of the boxes and outlines help to keep things organized. Overall, I'd say that this site is warm and inviting, and makes me want to keep moving through the pages to learn more.
Bright, clean
The tone was positive, upbeat, friendly. How can you miss with lots of photos of great-looking dogs interacting in loving ways with children and seniors?!
Warm and welcoming
Warmth, caring and professionalism.
warm, friendly, bright and clean
I liked the slide show, especially the little red-haired girl reading to the dog.
There were a lot of different boxes and it wasn't clear at first which ones were links.
I liked the flash slideshow and the colored boxes of categories. It seems easy to understand.
I liked the flash photos and the grid organization of the site.
Nice logo. Animals everywhere J In the slideshow, in the boxes down below. Pets Pets Pets.
That this was a site about animals and people together.
The header and slideshow were very balanced and appealing. I absolutely love the footer! I'm not a big fan of too much color, so at first I wasn't too sure about the different colored categories. However, after scrolling down to them I had to admit that they worked well together. Great way to do the main navs. * this is the line for below
My first impression was that the first page gives you a lot of information up front. The headlines jump off the page at you in such a way to really call attention to the different areas of information available and make it very simple to find things.
Nice bright colors. Organized
The opening screen was fun and inviting; the slide show was eyecatching (I watched it for a minute or two before moving on to see what else was on the site.
I thought it looked very professional
I love the feel of the page. Great colors and graphics. There is a lot of information so I had to decide what to look at first. The white on black text is where my eye went first.
slideshow is good, ANIMALS, nice layout
The "more" button under the learning box
I first went over to the About page.
I first clicked on the About tab to find out more about the organization.
The top nav bar to check out the drop down menues, then I clicked on Programs, then Learning.
Learning
On the about button
Social Therapy. I was interested in what type of programs they offered.
I clicked on the Nutrition box on the home page.
On the slider
I first clicked on Learning, because that was what interested me since the Readers of the Pack photos caught my attention in the slide show.
About
On the "about" section, then I went through the entire navbar checking out the navigation.
about or one of the programs
Mostly, but I was initially confused by having the 4 main categories (learning, social therapy, nutrition, wellness), then having similar (but named differently in some cases) categories in the left side menu in the core part of the site----because I didn't enter through the "programs" button, I didn't know I was seeing all the programs linked in that area. I would suggest using the same names. I guess it's the "Readers of the Pack" that confused me. The rest are the same.
Yes
I thought it was easy to navigate until clicking on one of the Learning, Social Therapy, Nutrition, and Wellness boxes and having to return to home page to find and click on another box category
Yes the site was easy to navigate.
I thought the site was nice and easy to navigate. Good job. Lots of bread crumbs.
It think it would be easy to navigate but there was something wrong with all secondary pages (im working with him, his team mate said it was just only his computer)
Yes. The programs nav on the left side of every page was very convenient and I really liked all the quotes below. The donate button on the right with different short articles held your interest there.
The site navigation is fairly straightforward and easy to move through. The breadcrumbs were a little misleading, since they're not actually links though.
Yes, the menus were well organized. And the bread crumbs helped.
The site was easy to navigate.
Yes, very easy
I found the html pages very easy to navigate. The PDFs are difficult in that there is no way back. This could be a problem for people who don't realize that they need to click on the former tab in the browser bar. Back button doesn't register.
they liked it, make the bread crumbs links, add ROP to the home page, make PDFs not open in new tabs
The pet pictures, the quotes, and the detail information flowed well so that I was kept interested. I am an animal person and am curious to know more about the organization. Good job piquing my interest!
Yes, being a dog fan, I always enjoy pictures of cute dogs, which there were tons of!
Yes, the pages are interesting and filled with useful information
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Not my kind of topic honestly. Haha! I have pets, and I'm just not enough of a lover to be into this. However, I liked the learning and the social therapy part of it. Your design made me at least interested in that. It was the pictures and short amount of words/ what you chose to say that made me click on the boxes to go there.
Again they seem interesting but they were jumbled
Yes, all very interesting. Not too long, well-writing with interesting info.
The pages were very interesting. The balance between images of cute animals and the easy to read bodies of text helps to make the information come to life and stay in the reader's mind.
Yes. All of the pictures helped to hold interest
I didn't find the Learning HP to be very interesting, particularly with the FAQs. But the next level pages were more engaging. The whole Volunteer section was really well done.
Yes. The use of images throughout the site was wonderful
Yes. good graphics, wonderful colors, easy to find information and lots to learn on each page.
they liked it overall, one person did not like the FAQs
I liked the idea of having different colors, but the different browns clash a bit instead of drawing the site together. I think you might consider either colors more closely linked, or more different. The green, blue, and "learning" brown go well together, and the top/bottom bars work together. The maroon and the goldish brown don't seem to fit.
They were great, very colorful and fun.
I like the warm colors and photos of the animals
I liked the images and color scheme, very muted and understated, but draws your attention to the conent.
I like the color combo. They are a nice contrast.
I like the color scheme on the secondary pages. But too much color on home page. Photos look good
(See above about too many colors) So mainly yes. I liked the color columns on the secondary pages.
The color scheme is natural and open, and together with the images, help to convey the message that the site is here for the wellness of the animals and people combined.
Nice bright colors; they attract your attention
I like the color schemes and images.
I like the fact that many colors were used - not just a few according to the logo
The color scheme is soft and inviting and I'm a dog lover so I enjoyed all of the images. Nice photos and logo.
overall they liked it, one person didnt lie the browns, another thought there wwas too much color on the home page
The pet pictures, and the pet/people interactions.
Definitely all the images.
I like the personal touch of people with animals in the images.
The puppy images in the footer.
The logo is nice. The navigation is crisp.
Basic color scheme was nice and a lot of information
It held my interest and I felt I was getting some great information.
I liked the colorful imagery, and the
The organization of the content
The photos were the best part about the site. Again, you have great material to work with and you made the most of it.Very engaging. Having the Programs listed on the side made it easy to go check them out any time.
The use of images
After the message, I like the images of dogs and children, colors and easy navigation.
images
Fairly easy, but an overview under the "about" menu tab would be helpful.
Very easy to find. Every page has links to the programs both on the left side AND the top. It's obvious that they really want people to see those pages.
Information on 4Paws was easy to find through the top navigation and the boxed category links that told the visitor about the organization in detail.
Program info was easy to find.
Everything was easy to find, right there on the front page. Donate, bam ! Health? Bam! Etc,
Again it seems like it would be easy to access but the pages, in the state they were, made it difficult to move around
Very easy.
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Very easy
The only info I thought was a little hard to find was the address and phone number on the home page...pretty small font and it doesn't stand out all that well against the brown background.
Very easy
yes
peeps thought it was easy to navigate, one person thought that it was incomplete and tough, another thought about should be expanded, and another thought the addy/phone number should be larger
Slideshow was the first thing I saw. It loaded fine. The transitions were a little faster than I like, but I have a strong preference for slower/calmer.
If by slideshow, you mean the thing on the homepage right in the center, then yes! It loaded instantly, ran smoothly and I think each image is up for a good amount of time.
Yes, the slideshow was nice and loaded quickly.
I found the slide show and like the forward/back buttons. It loaded fine and the transitions were a little slow, but I liked it.
The slideshow was just right. Loaded quickly. It left enough time to read.
No I didn't see a slide show unless you mean the one on the home page. And that one worked well
yes, yes, Slightly too long in between
yes, It loaded right away, even with my terrible router. I think they were just the right amount of time to be able to read everything.
Yes. It loaded quickly. They seemed just about right to read all the content. I did flip through them at first, but then went back and read them
Everything worked well, including the slideshow (a little slow, but it did make you read the information since it wasn't racing to the next slide.
I don't think so; unless you are meaning the slides that automatically switch on the home page. Yes, Maybe slightly too slow.
I found a slideshow on the first page, pages loaded quickly, about 6-7 seconds between images perfect. Yes, because it is on the front page, a slow transition is best in my opinion, because very fast can be distracting to a person learning about the organization.
overall they liked it, some thought it was too slow, some thought it was too fast
Not that I found.
On the homepage, links to the programs are right there near the bottom, except there are only 4 of them, "Readers of the pack" isn't there...?
The font size for "only search 4Pawscenter.org " is the right size on the homepage, but every other page that text is super small and almost unreadable.
I did not find things that didn't work.
I didn't see any broken links for spelling issues.
Everything appears to be working.
All of the second level pages lost their styling. The logo and left column started at the top of the page and then the navigation bar jumped down after the left column. Like the was something wrong with the CSS code. It made it very difficult to do a good test of the site
It looked great. The only thing I noticed was on the "Just Add Water" Pdf link on the social therapy page, there is a note in parenthesis to add a Picture of Raol and a dog. The picture was not added or the note removed.
The links for Programs and Support Us didn't work in the primary navigation.
I didn't find any errors like that
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None that I saw
All of the links work well as far as I know; however, one in consistency was that Support Us and Programs doesn't have a page link from the main button, just the dropdown menu.
"Just Add Water" Pdf has a note in there to add an image, add ROP picture/link to the home page, search font is kinda small, "support us" and "programs" dont link to anything in the top nav
Change the "Student Slaves" header to something else, like "This website was made by:"
For one, it seems like the "students" are students of 4Paws. And for another thing, why would you use the term "slave"?
Just to have links to the boxed categories on those individual pages so you don't have to keep pressing the back button.
The only issue I saw was that on all the 2nd level pages there was a large space between the header nav and the content. Like the div got squezzed down below the side bar. Oh on the SRJC teams page, the numbered list at the bottom has the numbers cut off.
nada
Pretty much fix the second level pages*
Nothing I can think of, I really liked the site and it's layout.
(somewhere above the listing got mesed up as someone said nothing)
The transitions on the slideshow are timed right, but they're so subtle it took me a few seconds to realize that the text was changing in addition to the image. Also, the right sidebar is slightly thinner on the home page than it is on the secondary pages.
They only thing that came to mind was to make the breadcrumb links clickable
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None
Fewer PDF's or PDF's for print only and html pages for information.
ill change the student slave thing later (i forgot to do that already), second level pages have too much space at the top, the richt column is different width on homepage, make bread crumbs clickable, less PDFs
Android - looks pretty good. The side bars are not exactly the width of the phone, but there's probably no way (other than a specifically mobile css page) to ensure that it was. The slide show loaded just fine, didn't hang up the site at all. BTW - I found the "about" page under the about link. I think having one link at one level and a different one in the drop down is confusing. When on the mobile, I didn't get the drop down, which is how I found the page :)