Hello,

I'm very new to this and just found this forum. This may be a totally different site than you are used to reviewing but I am very interested in your comments.

What I would like is an overview of my site...how does it flow...the over all look and appeal...does it invite interest and questions. Are there any glaring negatives about the site. Last but not least...comments for improving my site.

Thank you for your help!

Wendy S.
Wild Fire Bengals

Dont use the @ sign in your email link and the spam robots won't be able to add you to their list! Go with something like this; info(at)wildfirebengals.com
Human beings will know what you mean and the link will have the actual address to open your viewers email program.

Not to flame you Paul, but robots read code so they will read the actual email address from your <a> tag. Its easier to script to find the information between the mailto: and the end quote than it is to find an email address simply by identifying the @.

If you're really worried about this use javascript to write that tag in pieces.

Wildfire, I just see some fine tuning that needs to be done.

Contact Us page doesn't center like the rest of the pages.

Image Optimization

I would export all of your navigation and titles to gif format. Do it from the original format you created them in. This will cut down the size of the files dramatically and likely increase the clarity.

Tip: images that are mostly text, lines, solid colors generally are going to be smaller when saved as .gif. Images that are pictures are generally going to be smaller when saved as jpg.

Example:
Original JPG

~10kb
Export as GIF

~3.6kb

Not sure what graphics software your using but you can probably export those jpg's as something more like 80 quality vs. 99 they are now.

Something is causing your nav to reposition on everypage.

Hi,

I am also very new to this forum, but offer my 2 cents. I come from a Graphic Design background, so I can only comment on overall design details. Your photographs are high quality. Some seemed to take awhile to load, but I am on a dial-up, so I am used to that. The design is consistent throughout the site which is great. You provide alot of information on the site which shows you are very serious and well-versed about your business.

Hello,

Nice site. Beautiful kitties!

It appears to me that you may have built your site for 640 X 480. Most browsers these days are viewing sites with a screen resolution of 800 X 600 or higher. I'm not sure the exact statistic but my website stats show that more than 80% of my visitors are viewing at 800 X 600. I think there is room to widen your page which would increase the effective viewing area and overall visitors experience.

I found your site nice and simple to peruse with consistency throughout. My only suggestion concerns the length of the cats, kittens and shop pages. I read somewhere that a web page should not generally be more than 3-4 page downs and some of these are over 10. That said, although the pictures are very nice, do you need the large images on each page, or could you create thumbnails of each picture and make them clickable for full view. This will speed up your page download and I am sure that the people who want to see the full image will be patient enough to wait for the download.

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Wonderful site. Very entertaining.. makes me want to buy a kitten. too bad I'm alerigic to cats.

Remember webTV is still at 640x480. If the site fluid then this would work better for those with a larger resolution. Having the site fluid will also shorten the pages so less scrolling that Mark was talking about.

Graphic size also as mentioned earlier is a major problem. My example:

bengalingenuity3.jpg(on main page)
Your size: 39.35kb
Optimized @ 80% quality with Macromedia Fireworks: 16.85kb

And you can't tell difference in quality well I guess you could if you magnified them and had them side by side.

Great pictures of the cats, however, they are way too large in file size, especially for the Home page. Select a nice one and bring it down to a reasonable file size. Use thumbnails that are highly compressed and allow them to open to the full size, higher resolution images.

Your navigation menu is good in that it is mostly consistent, but I would modify it a bit:

As you are using images, I would include the alt attribute in the image tags as you have with the cat pictures.

Make the links change when they are hovered over by the cursor so that we can quickly determine that these are links. Have the link change to make it clear it is not active on the page we are currently viewing. Currently, your "Welcome" button is not present on the Home page, however, you did not follow this pattern on the subsequent pages. They all have active links to themselves.

Yes, I agree, the "Kittens" page is too long. Thumbnails would be a help here.

Good Luck, I'd like to have one of your cats, but we have coyotes here and I don't want to keep them indoors all the time.

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* Design is simple.
* Images can be further optimized. May be you can create smaller size images and make it clickable to higher quality images
* The link colors are very light. It might be difficult for some people to read it.

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