first site, please test and abusive comments welcome

[nymagic]

www.allegroexpressions.org

i would like to know how to speed up the time for the download for surfers that are using a dial up connection. is there any tutorial or another forum that i should ask or go to.

Thanks,


Ren

[ScreaminJesus]

The image on the front page is too jagged, rough edged, pixelly.

The Text wave is obviously swish, which is not good, you want original content.

The enter button is too basic and the green button obviuosly comes from the Flash library.

The buttons dont match in a cohesive style.

The brown rollover is too dark and bland.

U need the links in a section of their own, separate from the page.

Download time is pretty much entirely dependent on filesize, the bigger the file, the longer it takes, so work on lowering the size of jpegs, soundz, etc in ur site. But be carefull not to compromise too much on quality.

For your first site, this is pretty good, I like the nature concept, although it needs alot of work,

Cheerz,
Dwayne

[wurx]

OK you wanted abuse, here it is. (sorry)

First of all everything "ScreaminJesus" said is 100% on the money.

1-kill the full screen scale.
2-enter button is soooooooo generic
3-font usage is horrible (and swish wave)
4-background graphics are pixelated
5-AHHHHH that leaf!
6-No way to turn off that cr**py music! Too Loud!

But other than that, it works well, easy to navigate, loads quick. There is something to be said about that. Some sites are so Flashed-Up you can't do anything without a manual.

[DMB Lover 41]

i agree with everything that has been said before. also, i'd lose the "mailto" email link. to me it just doesn't scream professional. try using a form (check movies if you don't know how), or at least have a page listing the contact info. also check the font size on the purchase page...it's all over the place.

[Coca-Cola-Dist.]

On 56k it takes 4 minutes before I see anything but a baby blue background and I also see only garbled stuff as I link to each page and it never completely loads.
Use a preloader for low bandwidth users.....
And yes I agree with the above posts most people have seen those effects many many times, but if you can bring the background jpg image down in size with fireworks or something it would help.

[ZeroInspiration]

Umm try looking at the site on firefox its a big long ugly thing ewww. Cant rember the code to fix that but you really should look into it.

[skill_guy101]

i second all of that, espechally the firefox comment