my new site...need some feedback

ecchi · 2004-05-07, 01:54 PM

Nice looking design but three problems:

1. Too wide. The most common screen width for surfers is 800, you will get more sales if you keep your page to a maximum of 760 (Explorer with scroll bars).

2. Too slow loading. If I was considering buying a membership I would not pay for something that I have to wait ages to download.

3. Flash on advertising page ???? If you use flash on advertising always have a separate link to it (eg "click here for a free Flash tour"). Even if your host were sending the page at a fast enough speed for flash (it wasn't) many surfers have too slow a connection. Also many people do not have flash installed so will get a "Do you want to download flash...." box up, and a surprisingly large number will never have heard of Flash and will assume you are trying to force feed them a dialer, spyware, or virus and leave your site quickly.

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2004-05-07, 01:54 PM	#2
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	Nice looking design but three problems: 1. Too wide. The most common screen width for surfers is 800, you will get more sales if you keep your page to a maximum of 760 (Explorer with scroll bars). 2. Too slow loading. If I was considering buying a membership I would not pay for something that I have to wait ages to download. 3. Flash on advertising page ???? If you use flash on advertising always have a separate link to it (eg "click here for a free Flash tour"). Even if your host were sending the page at a fast enough speed for flash (it wasn't) many surfers have too slow a connection. Also many people do not have flash installed so will get a "Do you want to download flash...." box up, and a surprisingly large number will never have heard of Flash and will assume you are trying to force feed them a dialer, spyware, or virus and leave your site quickly.