Stitching web sites -- good

I want to be able to zoom a photo and have it come up quickly and clearly and with good color.

Lucille

Agreed - I sometimes want to contact the person or company by phone or mail, and like being able to find that information easily. (Why, oh why do companies have website with only an e-mail addy to contact them?)

A common list of major pages on every page so that you don't have to back out of every page when you want to go elsewhere on the site.

Pictures of the products (or if not, then a link to the manufacturer's website with pictures). I like to see a colour of a fiber or fabric before I buy.

Enlargements of pattern photos so that I can actually see the piece.

MargW

Good lay out, no music, not cutesy birds winging across the page.

Cheryl

I really like it when the site is dated when new items (new graphs, products, supplies) are added. My favorite website for cross stitch does that. They also have cross references and links that make it so easy to find what you need/want.

jill in nj

The flip side is a site that hasn't been updated in eons and has dead links -- pages and images aren't found or an off-site link points to a web that's been closed down. If one is an owner but not the web guru, one should request said web guru to periodically run a 'bot' to check the links.

The LNS I am referring to has its own webmaster and is done professionally. I have never come across a problem with any links. Updates are posted several times a week-sometimes almost daily. It's the first thing I check when I get home from work. It is my favorite website!

jill

I think some web masters have gotten lazy; stuff works for them so it must work for everyone.

When the WWW (world wide web), the browser interface for Internet information, was in its infancy, it was very common for web page designers to have a corps of off-site testers to give feedback. That probably isn't the case today.