website review

Oooh goody, I get to be honest.

First of all, it seems to be a little bit slow coming up on my T1 here - you might want to do something about that.

Overall the design looks quite nice. The pink has got to go though - that is just bad. THe pale blue you've used for your links doesn't exactly go with red either so I would change that too.

I'm also not quite sure what the deal is with the old guy in the left margin there. Is that one of your presidents? Why is he there?

I'm also noticing that you don't really ahve a logo. You should probably design something that will identify your site and help people remember your name. If they see "Actual Affiliate" on there they will be more likely to remember your URL and come back!

Clicked on one of the links at the top - now the page is sort of a fucia colour and again it's taking a long time to load. You should really just keep the same template for all of your pages because it'll really help your load time. Mr. President there looks really bizarre with a purple face! Eew! Or green! Except for his face there I kind of like the green colour scheme.

Top navbar - as I navigate those links the arrangmenet of them is changing on the top bar. I really don't like it when people do that - I know that some people actually recommend it but I just find it confusing.

You should also fix up the bottom of the pages. THe black bar isn't lining up with the white, and I think it would look better if there was a more defined closure there at the bottom. Like put a black bar across and put your text links on there with the copyright statement on the red below it. The ads you've got at the bottom of the page need organizing too - they look too scattered like that.

One final thing - center that table so that it'll look better at higher resolutions.

yeah that download time is kinda slow - took about ten seconds for somethin' to come up and then another ten to finish - I figure it's gotta be this ¼MB image which I'm guessing is some sort of tracking device - if this is correct, then IMHO it should go right out the door as it will simply cost you viewership - no sense carefully documenting smaller numbers - you've left out a couple of commas in the text under "Affiliate Cash!" - in "Give your tips and advise" do you mean "advice" - advise works but I'm not sure that's what you mean - I think I'd leave off the exclamation point in that section (and I'm an inveterate "exclaimer!" ) - I know it's an image and you may not want to change it, but since you capitalize the second "Step" in "Step by Step" what about "info" in the header? - I guess that's Uncle Ben up in the corner - "the only President of the United States who was never President of the United States" - I think Megan Jack has a point asking "why is he there?" - I'm not sure about "all related to get more money with your site" - can ya rewrite that? - typo in "trough " - again, I'd drop those exclamation points - solves the problem of spacing you seem concerned about - "money making" is typically hyphenated - another space missing after a comma - I'd try to get rid of the references to "this section" - just describe 'em - we know they're "sections" - like maybe "where you are now" - I'd say drop those hyphen bullets - "get advise" should be advice unless you're British or something - congratulations on not using the redundant "© Copyright" that I see so often - on "Networks" typo in "hughe" - missing space after first sentence - again, I'd try to boil down those descriptions a little - the horizontal alignment on this page varies cross-browser but not critically - in "Directory" "the majority of webmasters CHOOSE" - the book wants a comma after the opening clause in this sentence but if you don't like the appearance because of highlighted text, I guess you could leave it out - I'd take the hyphen out of "search-engine" - FWIW, I'd hyphenate "well paying" but gotta admit that's not a word - again "advice"? - yeah, those changes in the navbar confuse the hell outa me - I can't tell one page from another - sorry if I label these things incorrectly - in "Directory" (see what I mean) another missing space after a comma - no period after first sentence - in "payment methods" missing spaces after commas - I guess you can do this if you want but be consistent throughout the site - the problem with "do's and don'ts" is you put an apostrophe in one but not the other - "advice" - extra hyphen between "Privacy" and "Link to us" - in "Tips and info" missing space in "affiliateprograms" - well I'm gonna stop there - I can't seem to figure out a way to get paid for doing this and I can't just give it all away for nothin' - lemme say I like the site in general although it does need some work, basically just polish - one more as a bonus for bein' a good sport about this - in "free Content" no period after first sentence - GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR SITE!! - send me a photo of Gen. Jackson and I'll do some more

That old guy is Benjamin Franklin I beleive.
He's on one of our paper bills.

Thank you all for your input, we'll make some changes !

Bruno Delepierre
head of actualaffiliate
http://www.actualaffiliate.com