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samyot
Please Review MyNature.ca
  • 2004/7/27 16:22

  • samyot

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Hi,

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated!

http://www.mynature.ca

Thank you in advanced

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tjnemez
Re: Please Review MyNature.ca
  • 2004/7/27 17:17

  • tjnemez

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  • Posts: 1594

  • Since: 2003/9/21


your site is clean, easy to navigate. well done!

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samyot
Re: Please Review MyNature.ca
  • 2004/7/29 19:34

  • samyot

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Thanks tjnemez for your comments!

As you can see I am not an artist but for now I think this theme works for me. I will post back if or when I change it!

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brash
Re: Please Review MyNature.ca
  • 2004/7/30 0:05

  • brash

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 2206

  • Since: 2003/4/10


Hi Sam,

Nothing wrong with the theme presentation and layout, it's clean, clear and the colour scheme is suited to the topic of the site.

Performance on the other hand is not so good. You site is around 440KB in size which is way too big, and will loose visitors. It took me just over 30 seconds to fully load your site over a E1 (2 Mbit ATM) here at work in Australia. General rule of thumb is visitors will move on from your site if the page takes more than 8 seconds to load. With a combination of throughput, latency and size, it could easily take a visitor on the other sde of the world a few minutes to doenload your site over a 56k connection.

Not all is lost though. You have huge gains to make through image optimisation. You have two images at or over over 100K, and of the 5 largest items on your site, 4 of them are images which account for almost half of your total site size (in just 4 images). You should also look at reducing your http request if you can as you have 37. This isn't bad, but it isn't good either as they'll introduce a significant (5 seconds or more) of lag time when loading your site.

Overall a very good effort, especially if you are new to the game.

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menochi
Re: Please Review MyNature.ca
  • 2004/7/30 0:43

  • menochi

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  • Since: 2003/12/28


Nice theme - Nice work !!!

I like it. Brash is right, the pics are very "big".

I need about 20 secs to open your page in Chile.


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jmass
Re: Please Review MyNature.ca
  • 2004/7/30 2:44

  • jmass

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 524

  • Since: 2003/12/18


I think that the theme looks OK, but the log on the headers for the left and right blocks take away from the site.

IMHO of course.

I have converted my site to XOOPS and will open it up to the public in the next week. The theme is done and I am uploading the content as I type. So you will have plenty of oppertunity to rip my style

JMass

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samyot
Re: Please Review MyNature.ca
  • 2004/7/30 14:58

  • samyot

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Thank you all for your great suggestions!

I have removed the images from the Recent Photos block which should speed things up.

Can someone confirm that the load time is better?
It would be appreciated.

brash, how did you find out the numbers of HTTP requests my site generated?

Thank you once again!

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samyot
Re: Please Review MyNature.ca
  • 2004/9/3 23:28

  • samyot

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Hi,

I have been working on my site, tweaking things. I think it looks a lot better and loads faster now.

If anybody has any comments or suggestions, they would be appreciated!

Thank you!

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shivaji
Re: Please Review MyNature.ca
  • 2004/9/4 2:57

  • shivaji

  • Friend of XOOPS

  • Posts: 179

  • Since: 2003/9/18


Hi:

Excellent ! when i enter your site my first impression was that its something related to nature and it is. Why dont remove the top potion brown box along with adsense completely, and just keep the background green leaves where the Search box is.

Try to make a logo similar to "welcome to your site" font and style, make it transparent and bring it to top where the "manature.com" logo is.

Block topic background image somewhat look too dark, why dont try removing entire image and just put a "green leaf" small icon type image to the the left of block topic text and keep the background white.


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samyot
Re: Please Review MyNature.ca
  • 2004/9/5 13:07

  • samyot

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Thank you shivaji for your suggestions.

I will take them in consideration as I keep tweaking the site's looks.

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