Site Review and HELP with slice loading
Hello WebFam,
I am new to this forum. I just finished my site for my virtual marketing and PR firm. I am frustrated because of how it loads. Its hard to explain, but it's like the slices don't load at the same time. I am hoping some of you can review my site and give me some suggestions on how to get a smoother load of my webpage.
I designed the site in Photoshop CS and finished it up in Dreamweaver MX.
Any and all suggestions are GREATLY appreciated.
My url is http://www.p2lconsulting.com
kb posted this at 04:47 — 12th July 2007.
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Well, this isn't necessarily the proper forum, but...
My first thought is "...wow?" because of the color scheme, badly rendered graphics, and mismatching of text vs. position. In FF, the text doesn't render properly in the middle right text box, and runs the entire length of the page.
The colors are either too harsh on the eyes, or they don't go well together... something isn't right.
And the graphics just scream "amateur"...
So, all in all, I would suggest an intense revision. Not to be harsh, but start at the bottom and work your way to the top.
urbangyrl posted this at 18:16 — 12th July 2007.
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Kyle,
Didn't realize I was in the wrong forum. Nevertheless, no need to apologize. I needed honest opinions and solid direction on how to get this done right.
Megan,
Thank you for the tips. They really helped. I will post in the correct forum (sorry about that).
Megan posted this at 13:16 — 12th July 2007.
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Hi urbangyrl, welcome to the forums! If you want a full website review please post in our website critique area and follow the guidelines there.
I have a fast connection here so I didn't notice any slowness with loading but they did wipe in kind of strangely in IE and Firefox (Opera is instantaneous - don't notice any loading problems).
The way the layout is done here is really weird because you've got positioned layers on top of a table background. If you're going to use tables just put the text inside the table rather than trying to draw a layer on top. Dreamweaver's layers are probably best to stay away from unless you know what you're doing.
There is also a problem here with how the slicing is done. If you're doing slicing you need to be careful to keep any solid colour areas in their own slice. Solid colour backgrounds like the ones in your content area should be in HTML not as images. You've got a lot more images here than you should and that's probably causing problems with the loading time.
So what you should do is re-slice the graphic, keeping the solid colours in their own slices. Then when you get into Drewamweaver take out those slices and put background colours on the table instead.
(all of this is defintiely not the best way of laying out a web page but it will suffice for you for now).
Megan
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ticktac posted this at 04:22 — 19th July 2007.
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Hey there. looks like you used css layers to setup the design... which might be from photoshop.. dont remember. in any case, i think thats your issue.. also, are you trying to preload all the images? I'd def say to work on styling it up a bit.. colors arent the best, but could work. i'm not digging the p2l font color.. did you try white?
I'd say try to reslice it, there are a ton of images here... many of them you dont need. Slice it up and just use background colors and tables (if you're not familiar with css).
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AntonellaS posted this at 03:47 — 22nd July 2007.
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Joined: Jul 2007
Well There is a couple of things I would definitely do on diferent way but for the beginning I would try with different font and font color.
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