In the article written by Jackie, a call for a review was made. I make the below comments in the interests of helping out, and I am purposely critical. Not in the hopes that it will anger or frustrate you, but in the hopes that the criticism will help you to better your companies website.

Sorry, but your navigation drove me nuts.

The overall site design loaded quickly, and the aesthetics of the site weren’t too bad. The only comments I have are:

Kevin needs to have his links consistent on each and every page. On some of the pages his categories are not there. I had to back page a long while to get back to it.

My first impression of toolup.com is it is an attempt to be like officedepot.com, buy.com, and other dot.coms. The only people that are concerned with whether a business has a physical location are those that have an interest in being touchy-feely. The general population realize that what they want are great prices.

This article reprinted with permission by java.sun.com

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing is difficult enough without having to learn a new API. The first version of JXTA introduced us to P2P, but the API was tough to learn, and not easily mapped to our current process. But now, with the release of JXTA 2.0, you get your warm fuzzies back — in the form of a ready-made API to wrap your P2P communications, with a socket-like interface and Java I/O streams.

I read WebProNews every time I see it in my inbox, or if I don’t have time, I put it in my TODO folder.

I have a folder named “WebProNews” where I save all the past issues that pertain to my work.

First Impression:

Nice but it has an unfinished feel to it, it is as if the designers hit a deadline and just published the site as is.