A Few Sites

[Qest]

Well... I've been making websites for a while and I'd like to think that they don't suck too too much. But I want an honest opinion, so I consult the best, lol.

A Invision Power Board skin I made (some problems with none-IE browsers, haven't gotten around to fixing them)

A site I'm working on that will hopefully eventually sell templates (still empty and a little graphics heavy -> working on flash header)

A page for an autoshop that I just started today. Only the header is really done, but I'd appreciate any feedback nonetheless (Dhtml menu still not working right under mozilla)

Thanks

Qest

 

[pinkfluffybunny]

Hi Qest,


http://www.fizix.org/aqua/ -

Load time - 55 seconds at 56k (not counting the frame you haven't finished)
60% of web surfers in the US use a 56k modem, average connection 49K. Some countries in Europe and the third world are lucking to get 33.6. A 19 second page load-time will lose you 60 - 70 percent of your visitors before the page loads. The losses go up for each second. It may look great but if no one sees it .......

Frames - Don't

Flash - you're gonna add to the load time? There's a saying " want to make a site invisible, let a flash guy build it".

It ain't the looks that count kid. Build with goals and objectives as your first priority. Looks don't mean a thing if noone sees it, doesn't stick around for it to load, or your client isn't meeting his roi.

http://www.fizix.org/autoshop/

Header load time - 33 seconds

Menu - right now google is the only SE that can spyder links in java, but you were able to stop them by including dhtm data for links.

 

[Qest]

Yeah... the load times are pretty awful on aqua, and not good on the autoshop. I didn't know those statistics though. Kinda a mind-opener. I'm working on a way to reduce the size (currently 150kb)... The flash should actually make it smaller (jpegs).

By the way: No frames in any of those sites (nor will there be), I can't stand frames and never use them. Don't know where you woulda gotten that idea from, I don't think I said that.

Thanks for that... I'll see what I can do to reduce the load time .

Qest

---EDIT---
Reduced to 80kb
---END EDIT---

 

[pinkfluffybunny]

You have a Iframe in the center. In the code it looks like this

<td width='550' rowspan="2"><iframe name='content' width='100%' height='500' frameborder='0' src="" scrolling="no"></iframe></td>

 

[Slewey]

looks are good, but loading times are pretty long indeed.

and I got 2 white spaces with that autoshop site.
http://members1.chello.nl/~r.vanheije/space.jpg
and other side a gap like that
it reduces(dissapears) when I make my browser smaller.

 

[John Kennedy]

The overall layout of the message board skin is great, one of the best looking skins I've ever seen. However, I think the "blueprint" banner is too big, the right hand side looks bare.

Everyone else has covered the loading time problem with the websites.

 

[mello88]

Re: A Few Sites

Originally posted by Qest
Well... I've been making websites for a while and I'd like to think that they don't suck too too much. But I want an honest opinion, so I consult the best, lol.

A Invision Power Board skin I made (some problems with none-IE browsers, haven't gotten around to fixing them)

A site I'm working on that will hopefully eventually sell templates (still empty and a little graphics heavy -> working on flash header)

A page for an autoshop that I just started today. Only the header is really done, but I'd appreciate any feedback nonetheless (Dhtml menu still not working right under mozilla)

Thanks

Qest

Site #1 (invision) is very nice, i love the colors and layout

Site #2 looks very much like a template, and redoing the header in flash will make it run smoother. Someone will put this to good use, although I think I've seen something very simila on one of the free-site-template sites.

Site #3 As a browser, I would have a hard time finding stuff in the drop downs unless the drop-down-title text was very descriptive.

 

[killaklown]

those sites load pretty slow, but they are very nice!

 

[wicked_gal00]

Loading time is the only issue, as everyone has mentioned. I really like the stuff though, you've got lots of talent!

 

[Qest]

@ pinkfluffybunny -> My bad, when I think frames I don't think Iframes. You say that Iframes are bad too? Howcome, I've used them a lot and never any serious problems.

@ mello88 -> Thanks in regards to sites 1 and 2. And I agree with you about the autoshop site... I will make a note to myself to have good titles and logical organization to ease the strain some .

@ John Kennedy -> I understand what you are saying about it looking kinda bare. Are you viewing at a high resolution, because then it would undoubtably look even worse. I will look into livening the right side up. Thanks for the imput.

@ Slewey -> In regards to fizix: like I said, I'm working now on ways to reduce the size without killing the quality. As for the autoshop header, I just threw that together. I'm not really surprised to find out its got problems, lol. When we meet with the guy who we are making that site for and get a clear idea of where its headed I will get that header finer tuned, and finish the template.

 

[John Kennedy]

1024x768

 

[pinkfluffybunny]

Because your Iframe has no links to get people into your site "when", it is registered with the search engine. It may be the one 90% of your search engine traffic comes to.

Search engines like text. Feed them.