New home page

[tgo]

Hi,

I just redesigned my homepage to load much quicker but IMO it looses some of my sites style. Can I get opinions on what one you like better as a homepage.

New index.
http://famousqt.com

old index - click browse celebrities on new index
http://famousqt.com/index1.asp

 

[deet]

I like the old index. I didnt see a link that said "browse celebrities"

 

[tgo]

Thanks,

Browse celebrities is on the current main page.

Could you tell me the load time and your connection? The old page is about 100k of stuff. Dont want people to leave before they see the site.

 

[deet]

Thanks,

Browse celebrities is on the current main page.

Could you tell me the load time and your connection? The old page is about 100k of stuff. Dont want people to leave before they see the site.

It opens fat for me,

I am on Cable 154.24 Kbps (not real fast.)

 

[sufi]

I like the old one better but it took long time to load.

 

[NuPagady]

The old one looks much better.
It's worth of waiting!

- Paul

 

[deet]

Loaded fast for me

 

[DJ-Sound]

The new one isn't user friendly at all. black background unreadable text, big image various links at the bottom

The old one is better, just get rid of the 100 pictures, merge them together, lower sizes and use image maps instead.

 

[tgo]

With image maps I would loose the rollover effect. I have optimised the images in the old one as much as I can without loosing quality. Its just a large concept.... prety but large.

My problem with using it as a home page is that the first hit I get from someone it preloads the images for the rolovers, which is 12 (12-15kb) images before even displaying anything. Thats like 20+ seconds for 56k, before it even displays anything. Perhaps I should move the preload script to below the body.

Thanks for the opinions, I think I will make a new front, that incorperates some of the new and old versions. Perhaps copy the larger side images from the old one to the new one to fill out the sides.

Is the text really that hard to read? Should It be bigger? Different font/color? The background wont change as its the way I like it, so if anything its the text that I have to change.

Thanks again, any more comments welcome.

 

[lilgee]

fast loading, ok layout. ill give u 5/10 on it

 

[tgo]

fast loading, ok layout. ill give u 5/10 on it

Uh huh, on what one?

 

[StudioWorks]

Hey,

Well I think the last one looks better. you did a preety good job.

All the best,

SW