>Looks sharp, John! I like it. Here are a few comments based on poking around for about 10 minutes ---
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>It took a long time for the Google map to build after clicking the "Last 50 Reports" link. Maybe it caught my DSL connection at a bad moment or maybe it is just a lot of data to push down the wire. Maybe display the grid list initially, with an option to display the map? (UPDATE: I think Google Maps is time consuming, it wasn't just bad luck. It also took 10 seconds or so to redraw the map when I clicked Firefox's back button).
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Thanks Mike. I think I can optimize the map display by preloading the icons.
>The Courts link is initially confusing. (Someone else's site, I think). It's not apparent what to do.
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Yeah, I need to make that more easily understood. I'm thinking I need to put a "FAQ Page" which has information on the links with a few screen shots for each page.
>The "Report a Crime" link has some display issues under Firefox. Nothing horrible, just overlapping fields.
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Thanks, I'll take a look in FireFox. I've been developing using Dreamweaver and I think it may be optimized for IE.
>The "RTCC Live Cams" link goes to the Memphis PD home page.
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Yeah, that link isn't ready yet, so I just stuck something in there.
>The "Check Items for Stolen" (word choice?) link goes to the MPD's CyberWatch page.
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This is another "Not ready for prime time yet". I have convinced the director to let me put a page out that our registered CyberWatch users can use to check to see if a serialized item has been entered as stolen. Nobody else is doing anything like this, and I think people will use it to see if that gun someone is selling "because my daddy left it to me and I don't want/need it" is really a stolen gun, etc.
>Great job. I can see it was a lot of work.
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>PS -- Check your email ;-)
John Harvey
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