Navigation... Well if you are referring to a conventional menu system for navigating your site, couldn't find it. The one thing that did look like it was under BROWSE on the bottom left, but that contained links to other sites? If you are just refering to the browse by products, too far down and small compared to the rest of the site.
You didn't ask for it, but the feel i got from your site with the layout and large fonts reminded me of the many junk mails I get daily that I immediatly hit delete on. You have some nice images on the site, but then they are right there with some that look like "clip-art" quality images.
-Greg
The Webmistress posted this at 09:48 — 6th December 2003.
The Load time was fine to me but I'm using a broadband connection. As far as navigation, it depends. The site appear cluttered so I would have needed to spend a few minutes looking for what I wanted.
mommiegeek posted this at 23:09 — 8th December 2003.
However, I find the floating navigation menu that scrolls up and down the side of the page to be very annoying. I much prefer static menus that stay where they should so that I might review the whole page.
The site does take on the feel and appearance of being very cluttered and very distracting. As a buyer/shopper I would not be inclined to stay around to find out what the site is all about.
A last comment is that your site uses tables but the tables don't dynamically resize; I had to open up my browser full screen to see the full page - anyone browsing with a monitor set to 800x600 would have to scroll left and right, something that is very frustrating to the average internet surfer.
I would suggest setting your table to a dynamic size by making the width=100% or change the table size to fit a standard 800x600 browser screen (yes, some people do still surf and use their computers in 800x600). Also, try putting a static menu either across the top or in the left hand column of your table.
One thing I noticed, is that the mobile nav bar floats up and down when you scroll the page, but when it stops moving, I can only see from the link Mousepad and up. I cannot see any links below that. My browser is Netscape, btw.
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Greg K posted this at 23:07 — 5th December 2003.
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The load time was ok for me (DSL connection).
Navigation... Well if you are referring to a conventional menu system for navigating your site, couldn't find it. The one thing that did look like it was under BROWSE on the bottom left, but that contained links to other sites? If you are just refering to the browse by products, too far down and small compared to the rest of the site.
You didn't ask for it, but the feel i got from your site with the layout and large fonts reminded me of the many junk mails I get daily that I immediatly hit delete on. You have some nice images on the site, but then they are right there with some that look like "clip-art" quality images.
-Greg
The Webmistress posted this at 09:48 — 6th December 2003.
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Can you please review some of the others sites in this section please as per the posting policy
Austers posted this at 14:37 — 6th December 2003.
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It loaded fast for me
princejones posted this at 02:57 — 8th December 2003.
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The Load time was fine to me but I'm using a broadband connection. As far as navigation, it depends. The site appear cluttered so I would have needed to spend a few minutes looking for what I wanted.
mommiegeek posted this at 23:09 — 8th December 2003.
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The site loads quite quickly (on broadband).
However, I find the floating navigation menu that scrolls up and down the side of the page to be very annoying. I much prefer static menus that stay where they should so that I might review the whole page.
The site does take on the feel and appearance of being very cluttered and very distracting. As a buyer/shopper I would not be inclined to stay around to find out what the site is all about.
A last comment is that your site uses tables but the tables don't dynamically resize; I had to open up my browser full screen to see the full page - anyone browsing with a monitor set to 800x600 would have to scroll left and right, something that is very frustrating to the average internet surfer.
I would suggest setting your table to a dynamic size by making the width=100% or change the table size to fit a standard 800x600 browser screen (yes, some people do still surf and use their computers in 800x600). Also, try putting a static menu either across the top or in the left hand column of your table.
mjs416 posted this at 15:06 — 9th December 2003.
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Decent load time for me.
One thing I noticed, is that the mobile nav bar floats up and down when you scroll the page, but when it stops moving, I can only see from the link Mousepad and up. I cannot see any links below that. My browser is Netscape, btw.
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