This is a fan site about Michelle Branch. There aren't that many fan sites out there about her yet. My site has the games which no other site has. It also has the edited pictures. Only the official site has fan art and I think these are a form of fan art.

I think that the official site has a better layout than mine. It uses all tables which is why I didn't use tables in mine. I didn't want them to look the same.

Some sites are run by people who have a Yahoo Fan Club attached or a chat room but I didn't want one of those as well as the site. The site would be interactive if it did have that, but the official site has a chatroom and message board that I think should be used more. There's no need for me to have that kind of thing in my site.

I'm really happy with the way that the site turned out and with its layout. I worked on the picture for a while to get it right and I think it looks really good now and fits in with the site well.

I think that this site looks slightly better in Netscape than in Internet Explorer but it works fine in both browsers, so it doesn't really matter that much.

I've put up a mirror version of this site up on the Internet so that other people can see it. It replaces my old Michelle Branch site, which had nothing on it and was very basic. The site is identical to this one, except it doesn't have the critical reflection part on it. It's at Michelle Branch Unplugged.

There was a problem with the layout looking a little strange on the uni computer. On my computer the navigation bar was in the right place but when I got to uni I had to insert two line break tags in order for it to be at the right places. I think this will still look okay on other computer because it will still be in the blurred area, just down lower in it.

That could have also been because I use Internet Explorer at home but checked it using Netscape at uni. Netscape and Internet Explorer have been known to slightly differ in page layout which isn't normally a problem unless you want something place very precisely on the webpage.

Another problem that I think the site might have out on the web is that the right-hand frame's background image takes a while to load. It's fine if you have a fast connection and with a T3 connection wouldn't be a problem at all but for people with very slow connections it would take a while to load. A solution to this would be to make the picture of a lower file size but in doing this it would make it so that the text was blurred, not clear.

I made the picture physically smaller because I'd made it longer in case someone with a different screen resolution was viewing the site. However, it was very large so I took some off the bottom and it still looks okay while being a smaller file size. It's still a large file size but while it's still in the ftp server I think it'll be okay. I'll have to try and find a way to make it smaller for the web though.

I'm not sure how it will look in a large resolution but since the picture has clear dots at the top of the picture it won't matter if it begins to tile a little.

Another problem that I came across was that when I was doing the javascript to make the links show words instead of a url when the mouse was put over them, I couldn't put an apostrophe in the words. I think this was because it confused up the coding. Instead I used an asterisk.

I also didn't get to use an image map on the site but it wouldn't have fitted into the layout and design. The gifs that I made didn't really fit into the site layout either, so I put them in a special section where people can get them from if they want to use them on their own site. That way, I get to display them as someone can use them if they fit into their site.