New website - Opinions please

New website - Opinions please

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golfman

Original Poster:

5,538 posts

253 months

Saturday 28th August 2004
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Only 50% complete, but would appreciate your honest opinions.

Thanks

www.bms-europe.co.uk

ATG

21,363 posts

279 months

Saturday 28th August 2004
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Looks pretty good! Easy to find your way around, seems to render quite quickly. Good professional feel. Not quite sure about the grey and blue backgrounds. [pedant]Couple of small errors in the "Welcome to ..." text: "worlds" is missing an apostrophe, and "BMS is the choice of" should be "BMS is the choice for" ... otherwise you're suggesting professional tools choose your products, which is not a nice way to describe your customers![/pedant]

arcturus

1,492 posts

270 months

Saturday 28th August 2004
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Nice looking site, but i am guessing ATG is on broadband, not dial-up. It took a good 40 seconds (I timed it) to load here on ISDN, so would take even longer on analogue. Too long for a home page I would suggest - and don't believe all the bull about most people being on broadband, they aren't. Most people wont wait 30secs for a page to load, they will move on elsewhere.

The total page size for the home page is 317kb - I normally try to keep them below 100k for quick loading. This is just my opinion of course....

Whilst it looks pretty much identical in IE and Opera, in Firefox some white vertical lines appear between the pictures on the home page. Also the grey box around the text at the bottom of the home page does not appear in Firefox.

The downloads page, which looks fine in IE and Firefox, looks a mess in Opera. Also on the downloads page, the option to download Adobe Reader appears in IE but not in Firefox.

I note that the download location for Adobe reader is on your own servers. This means that you have to keep it up to date. Far better to link to the dedicated downlaod server at Adobe (as they encourage you to do) then your users will always have access to the latest version. Here is the link: www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html


>> Edited by arcturus on Saturday 28th August 22:32

>> Edited by arcturus on Sunday 29th August 10:55

Nightmare

5,230 posts

291 months

Tuesday 31st August 2004
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what the hell is Firefox?

totally agree on comments about page size. Would suggest you simply split the larger product pages into several...cos otherwise it may end up being a bit slow....and Im on a T1!

lovely professional design though!

plotloss

67,280 posts

277 months

Tuesday 31st August 2004
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Firefox is a browser that far outclasses IExplorer and Navigator...

golfman

Original Poster:

5,538 posts

253 months

Tuesday 31st August 2004
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Thanks very much. All useful info that will be taken on board.

tuffer

8,878 posts

274 months

Tuesday 31st August 2004
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OK with BB but may be slow with dial-up, do you do tyres for lawnmowers, golf carts, buggies etc....Do you want to? If so contact me via profile.