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Web: Professional Anesthesiologists (cont'd)
Original navigation
“You should be able to get everywhere you want to go from a home page,” DG’s Kathie Alexander says, so she developed tabs for easier navigation.
Balanced logo
The current logo is too big and fights with the circle image. “The logo was the first thing that caught my eye,” notes the designer. “I thought just balancing the information would make a big difference for the site.”
Fonts
Arial is a good choice: It’s a large font family, it reproduces well in various sizes, and it’s a standard on most machines. Sans serif faces are also ideal for web because they’re easy on the eyes.
Colors
More appealing is the new sophisticated palette of rich colors that appropriately set off the medical photos.
Top navigation
The tabs at the top of the screen allow the viewer to quickly move throughout the site. Alexander used four sections at the top and drops the general info (About Us, Contact Us, etc.) to the bottom.

Scrolling images
The medical images will scroll across the screen, lending it a bit more authenticity.
Drop-down nav
Once the user clicks on a tab,a gray bar with a brief intro drops down.

Associations
The designer included medical associations on each page because they are important for credibility.

Personality
Alexander also notes, "The questions page needs to be more intersting. By adding a picture of the physician answering the questions, I believe it gives this page a nicer, more friednly personality."
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