New Website

[Paul Reid]

The page looks like it's getting better. The one thing that immediately jumped out at me is that images aren't sized properly. You're using HTML tags to force large image files to smaller sizes, which results in the browser having to download the large file, then resize it and throw away a bunch of detail. It makes the page load slowly. Don't worry - it's a common mistake, even for professional page builders.

A good example is your logo at the top. You're using HTML to force the size to 55 x 125, but the actual image file is 2128 x 1099. That's around 38 times larger than it needs to be. If you manually resize the logo to 55 x 125 in a paint program, not only will the file be smaller, thus loading significantly faster, but it'll look better. Browsers don't all do a good job of resizing images, where as a paint program will probably do a better job.

 

[Mike McCall]

The page looks like it's getting better. The one thing that immediately jumped out at me is that images aren't sized properly. You're using HTML tags to force large image files to smaller sizes, which results in the browser having to download the large file, then resize it and throw away a bunch of detail. It makes the page load slowly. Don't worry - it's a common mistake, even for professional page builders.

A good example is your logo at the top. You're using HTML to force the size to 55 x 125, but the actual image file is 2128 x 1099. That's around 38 times larger than it needs to be. If you manually resize the logo to 55 x 125 in a paint program, not only will the file be smaller, thus loading significantly faster, but it'll look better. Browsers don't all do a good job of resizing images, where as a paint program will probably do a better job.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll put that on my list.

 

[Bryce W]

The one thing that immediately jumped out at me is that images aren't sized properly. You're using HTML tags to force large image files to smaller sizes, which results in the browser having to download the large file, then resize it and throw away a bunch of detail.

This. The laptop hands image on the Residential page is 4705 x 3137 in size yet only displays at 699x466. It adds 5 seconds to the page load time which is way too much.

 

[Mike McCall]

Ok, I think I've got the images properly resized. It should load better now.

 

[lcoughey]

- When I put my cursor over the menu items, they disappear. Likely white text on white background with mouse-over.
- not sure we need to be presented with a link to view the slider image on the sub-pages and you definitely don't need the link icon which basically refreshes the page
- I suggest you put actual text over the image on the front page, rather than have the text embedded into the image so that the words can be indexed by google, and they don't shrink when the page is resized to a smaller window or mobile device

 

[Mike McCall]

- When I put my cursor over the menu items, they disappear. Likely white text on white background with mouse-over.
- not sure we need to be presented with a link to view the slider image on the sub-pages and you definitely don't need the link icon which basically refreshes the page
- I suggest you put actual text over the image on the front page, rather than have the text embedded into the image so that the words can be indexed by google, and they don't shrink when the page is resized to a smaller window or mobile device

• Menu Text - That's been mentioned before and I am aware of the problem. Unfortunately I don't know how to fix it.
• Image Links - Yeah, that makes no sense to me either. That too falls into the "I don't know how to fix it" stack.
• Image Text - The closest I know how to get to placing text over the image is to place it where it currently is below the image.

Those who can, do. Those who can't, hire someone who can.​

 

[Mike McCall]

I was able to figure out how to lose the image links so that should be better. However, changing the color on the hover over the page links in the top menu remains out of my grasp for the moment. That seems to be set in a portion of the theme I haven't figured out how to work with. The same is true for the image on the front page. I can remove the text from the image (replace it with the original), but laying text over an image on the front page escapes me for now. Those issues may have to wait until I grow into them, although I can remove the existing text from the image if you think I should.