SITE REVIEW: Bathroom

ahahaaa umm

I just realised that yesterday that I gave the wrong info - I made the site in Photoshop 7.0 then I saved it as a .psd and opened it in Ulead Photoimpact 7 - I find the slicing tool much more user friendly than Photoshop.

You can simply click on sliced section and make them links etc. Then you just select Save for Web > Save as HTML - it gives you a whole heap of options to save it as JPG or GIF as well as being able to add a heap of things like Page Title/Author/Decriptions/Add Favourite Icon, backgrounds and much more.

It then produces your image into a ready made HTML file all you have to do is go in and tweak a few things like div align etc.

I use Photoshop mostly - although I find Photoimpact handy for other things that Photoshop doesnt do so easy.

Ahhh that xplains a lot! One thing on connection speed: Your domain is just as slow, so it isn't you, but the server.

hmm it shouldnt be that slow (the server)

I like the colar and layout.
the 'about us' page can't be found.

Speed seems a little slow, but not unbearable - at least you can see the images loading in IE so at least it's visible what's happening. It varies between 6 secs to 12 secs depending on the size of the page on broadband.

Just out of curiousity I'm wondering if the following meta tag might be dragging down your page load time:



I have no idea what that does, but I'm taking a guess that it's reading that directory and the .ufo file as it's loading the graphics. *shrug -- I'm sure that was generated by PhotoImpact but I'm not sure why it's necessary.

As far as the overall site -- very nice. I might suggest a different color to the Lifestyle and Icon series graphics to make them stand apart from the links a little better.

bugger, i never noticed that!

actually come to think of it, I dont think it actually loads the document, its just a reference.

An excellent site there musik!

Clean, slick, to the point and easy to navigate.

Already mentionned, but yes, it does load slow. But, once loaded the navigation is fast so I'm guessing it is all those tap images that makes it slow. Maybe compress them a bit more.

The images should be somewhere, maybe look for them, open them up all seperately and open them in PS, then go to save for web and you can compress them more I believe.

Just a thought, could work.

kind regards
Tisse

ahh yes another great idea, I am writing all these down so I can use them when I get a chance to get back to work on it!

Thanks so much for everyones comments, you guys give great advice!

I gotta say I luv the layout alot! Perfect colors, Very clean layout, and easy navigation, thats a very nice layout.

Thanks Nego!

It will look even better once I implement the changes which have been suggested. I think it will cut down the load time a lot!

I've got about 5 other sites to make for other similar companies, they are coming along well. Some days it feels like so much to do and no time to do it in!

Hiya rose,

Took a look at the site, It did take a little while to load (broadband connection).

It looks like the quoted code above came directly from you making the file. eg the computer name and local address. ?

I use a similar type of address to access music on my other computer. (//alan/music/mp3filename.mp3) so it's most likely that it's a local file name generation.

Plus Rose, why not use "Dreamweaver". I know someone who swears by it plus I use it myself it is quite handy and does not make such a mess of the code as Frontpage does.

Hey Alan honey its so good to see you *hugs*

Its just a meta tag that PhotoImpact generates when it creates the website from the slices, nothing to do with Frontpage etc, but got to say I stand by Frontpage, lets put it this way, I have tried Dreamweaver and I just stick with what I know.

I've actually been playing around with some other ways of speeding up the loading time, as seen in this one http://www.ricochet.com.au/reece/ where i have basically sliced out any single colours and replaced them with a small background image which tiles. I think its sped up the loading proccess a lot faster.

Thanks for having another look, and yeah FP is *plum* for overloading with HTML ---- ahh maybe one day I will give in and change