Review Request: http://www.RealAdventures.com

Before others say "this" or "that," you may want to sit some users down (likely potential customers) and observe where they have difficulty. Your site may be at that point where this will yield more information than stylistic or code ideas. I'll leave the javascript issues for others to tackle.

It is always possible that people aren't getting what they thought the site was about -- advenures. Only one choice on your menu "Active Adventures" seems to match the theme at first glance. This may be a niche or "lens" from which people wish to view travel. The site doesn't seems to be more a general travel site in its approach.

This is conjecture, but it may be worth experimenting with and testing.

Welcome to TWF and thanks for reviewing some other sites.
First up your site is very slow to load, at one stage it nearly locked up mozilla (firebird).
NEVER use the width and height tags to resize your images, you have over 100kb of images on the index page and that can take a while on 56k or less modem.

Don't mismatch fonts and links, try keep to one style of font throughout the whole site (logos etc can be different), and same with links, either use the same color and same text decoration (underline or no underline) as swapping confuses people and they wont know what is and what isn't a link.
IMO you rely way to much on javascript, a lot of people these days surf with it turned off to avoid the pop ups etc I turned it off and was still able to surf your site (good thing the sitemap link was there).
Why are you using meta tags to set cookies?

There is a lot of information/topics on there but after trying to find out how to submit a site to your listing feel your aiming towards money rather than factual (been there done that kinda thing). I was put off by this so would of stopped viewing there.

Do yo have two web sites the same? realadventures and atlastravelmarketing ? search engines can see this as spamming. your faq page refers to "AtlasTravel" while your link wording and disclaimer refer to "realadventures" - comes back to a matter of trust. people get scammed and spammed so much on the web you have to earn their trust.
Advertise page - don't lie, again trust. you state # Over 200,000 visitors per month
# Approximately 1.2 million pages/month
# Resulting in over $3m of business for our clients per month but above you state traffic is slow.

So your travel advice, your reccomend links etc are worthless without trust, sure make some money with the site but do it in a way people know you are, even a "paid listing" next to the paid ones would help.
Tourists and travellers need a lot of help and if your site is helpful the word will get around but try trick them or lure into a money making scheme and it will bite you in the butt - this coming from a traveller.

Other than the points that Busy raised, I would centre the links in their boxes as they all look rather squashed to the side at the moment and you have a huge horizontal scrollbar at 800*600.

Maybe the main reason you aren't getting visitors sticking around much is the site is so slow and I'm on a cable connection!

I agree with the above. it is really slow. If you can speed things up abit, then to me you have a good site.

Just making those images into thumbnails would drop the load time heaps.
I have a bad connection at the moment so will check later, but just remember a lot of us modem users, even thou we have 56k modems only connect at 14-36 speeds. mine at the moment is acting like 14.4.
Also when checking your loading time remember you're probably viewing the cached version (you and your isp cache sites) so get a friend to check it. Opera browser is good to check load time as it tells you under the address bar, images loaded, load time ...

tsnyderawt what sort of coding did you use to track what speed you site was loading?

i think the site is immaculate from programming point of view, but you really need to work on load times. on T3, it would take a few seconds for some pages to load. you might want to spice up the menu on the top a little bit. the font looks dull and too standard. you might even want to use small gifs (400 bytes each, wouldn't add to much to the page). some tables don't match (different cellpadding). the discaimer on the bottom is taking too much spend, u might want to consider a link there.

Hi Vic, I just took a look at your site.

I guess all the hard work to make the site load faster really paid off. It loaded very quickly, great job!

You might want to say "Advertise" in stead of "Travel Providers". I was expecting to see a page of links, not advertising information.

I think you have a great site, and idea for a site. How long did it take you? I camp all the time so I will definitely keep your site for our next trip.

Great job!