Re: FN-FORUM: Site Test Please

date posted 6th January 2006 17:35

Works OK on Safari 2 on OS X, bit it's ridiculously slow over a 2 meg
broadband connection.

I've had a look at one of the background images and it was around
75k. That's probably too big for a background image but there's no
way it should take 10 seconds to download on my connection - I can
usually download a 1 meg image in less time than your page takes to
load.

As you don't have any server side processing going on there I think
it might be worth looking at your hosting provider, as a slow server/
connection would be the next obvious thing that could have caused
that problem.

I found the change from lower case to caps on the menu a bit
confusing - and also - if you move your mouse pointer just on the
edge of a link it 'flip-flops' between the hover and non-hover state
because the area the text covers is slightly less with the caps.

I'd consider blurring the background images (ie the faded-out ones)
slightly to get rig of hard lines and aid legibility and also making
the text a little darker to increase the contrast.

HTH
Rich
http://www.richardquickdesign.com

On 6 Jan 2006, at 15:34, Mike A wrote:

>
> I'd be grateful for a site check and commentary on
> www.guthriecontracts.co.uk to see if it works across browsers,
> looks okay
> and so on.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Mike A.
>
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