Hello to all...I am posting to ask for a review of my website and any comments, likes/dislikes, ideas, etc. Thanks to all who reply.

Would help if you add the link to where the site is.

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Kimberly,

I found your site to be a little too busy. There was just too much going on to hold my attention.

It also seemed to load slowly. You may want to see about reducing the size of some of your images.

Good luck,
Drew

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webhost1: it's in the title of her post, but I'll make it easy for everyone:

http://www.kimberlysdesigns.com

I'd agree totally with arefsha. There is an awful lot happening on the opening page, and between the number of images and number of different fonts used, it's hard to tell what I'm supposed to be looking at or doing.

First suggestion: pick a font (or at most 2), and use bold/underline/heading tags to indicate the important stuff.

Second, and this is a BIG one: try not to use the Yahoo! SiteBuilder. Like most WYSIWYG editors, it generates strange, bulky, proprietary, and patently unnecessary code. This will have a significant impact on the load time that arefsha was referring to.

Third: use "100%" instead of "1034" for the width of your main table for your site. 1034 pixels creates a horizontal scrollbar for anyone at 1024x768 resolution (such as me) or less (such as a whole bunch of other people).

Fourth: come up with a layout that's consistent across all of the pages. Users get confused very quickly if they find a different navbar and colour scheme from page to page. It's stupid, but they do.

Fifth (and finally, since I really am trying not to be hypercritical): the picture in the top right on the opening page should probably be replaced. NOT because you're a bad-looking woman (because you're not!) but because the combination of the red hair and the barely visible red tanktop made me wonder who the topless woman was initially. It took me about 10 seconds to realize that the tanktop even existed! As a red-blooded male, that grabbed my attention right off the top, and chances are that's not what you want.

Anyway, I really have tried to be constructive and gentle. I apologize if the comments I came up with were harsh.

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I personally think you need to look at cross brower support, i use netscape and the website looks like a tangle of words and images.

Best of luck with your design.

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I did see it was in the subject area. Most users want to point-click and be taken there. I thought it would make it that much easier for anybody else to reply if it was in the body of the message area like you have it.

m4k would you be so kind and check out my site. I don't get feed back from netscape users and I think it would be refreshing to here back from you.

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Thanks to all of you who took the time in reviewing my site www.kimberlysdesigns.com. I apologize for the long delay in this "thank-you". I have done some redesign based on comments given, and am hoping I am getting it right, at some point! :) Thanks again and if anyone would care to review this site again and give more comments, they are ALWAYS appreciated. Thanks again...Kimberly

I've just had a quick look in firefox. You need to look at why the horzontal scroll bar goes so far to the right when there is no visible scroller.

You should loose the javascript mouse pointer as well, it wears you down after a while.

The content is OK, but is needs to be presented in a more consistent way.

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Wow...there is most certainly a lot going on there! Lots of content tho, which is good to see.

I'd just really recommend simplifying your site...you've gone and over-complicated things with little bells and whistles (ie. the mouse trail) that really do nothing to help the user out. It's a bit of an overload.

Hope that helps!

Well...it's better than what I remember of it before.

ran_dizolph's right, though. It's still too busy. Simplify it where and when you can (especially the mouse trail).

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Thank you again for your comments regarding my site KimberlysDesigns.com. All comments are welcomed and certainly appreciated. I will get rid of the mouse trail! lol...but bells and whistles?? Was that only referring to the mouse trail I hope? Because other than that I don't think I have any bells and whistles...lol. I'm trying to incorporate in my site useful tools and information available to users, other than just my products alone. I hope this is pleasing and not causing too many slow-downs for some users. I'm providing it to help, not hinder. If anyone feels it does hinder or that I can rearrange things to be simpler, please let me know. Thanks again and continued success to all...Kimberly