NEW website

[james]

Looks great when it (eventually) loads, I'm on the company network (fast!) so I dread to think how long it would take to load on a dial-up connection.

Don't be discouraged too much, you have some brilliant work on there mate - just needs a suitable vehicle to be showcased online with!

[philjohns]

Agreed with al comments really. I love the design, its extremely simple yet somehow engaging with a real good choice of colours.

By having a website designer code it for you it means (as sai before) your site has a better chance of being ranked in google and other major search engines, but also, your site will load soo much faster!

[tommylogic]

...ohhhh my..

[graphite]

Originally Posted by james

Looks great when it (eventually) loads, I'm on the company network (fast!) so I dread to think how long it would take to load on a dial-up connection.

Don't be discouraged too much, you have some brilliant work on there mate - just needs a suitable vehicle to be showcased online with!

Thanks James for your comments.

[Ron McBride]

I agree also, you know what? I don't have any problem with flash, why don't you have just the components with flash not the whole page, it will also load faster, I have very fast connection and this site took a while to load; it used to be 8 sec. for load time now with high speed that has dropped to 6 sec. Cheers

[flashwiz]

Drop the tables... in this day and age, its the first thing that you should be thinking of, CSS tableless design

[misterm]

Ok, some critique it is! :)

- The page has tables for layout, that's bad! If you would choose to code it into CSS, it would load faster. Way faster!

- Using HTML text instead of images would also increase the loading time.

- Add some metatags. Since you aren't using text and you have no metatags, searchengines won't be able to index you site very well. A serious point of thought. Add at least some metatags.

- There is no real vertical-centering. You added some space on the top. CSS could also fix this (automatically center your site), so your page would display even fine in a 800x600 view

- The navigation at the bottom. You can do that, but make sure your page shows up fine, even in an 800x600 (as mentioned before), otherwise people won't have a clue at first.

- Your previous and next buttons, i would have given them more hit-space (as described in Fitt's Law), so users would be able to navigate easier.

Other things that could be nicer:
- Add a doctype
- try not to use inline javascript.


Other than that, i like the design. Clean, straight to the point. And you have some good work to show for it. Nice!