I've recently changed the look of my website. What do you think?

http://members.aol.com/nickjc67/fwpd.htm

Thanks.

Nick

The images are too big byte-wise. The earth section is 22kb - at that physical size it should be less than 5-6kb. Same with the keyboard (the prism thing is 8kb, which isn't too bad).

Your logo is 32kb - but because you have used different coloured versions of it throughout, multiply that up accordingly. There's no point doing that - why would your users benefit?

I won't labour the point, but the desk image on DeskBro is nearly 12kb. With those colours it could be around 2-3kb easily, and it is a JPG when it should be a GIF. You get the idea (ooo. The spider web is 15kb and could be less than 2kb. I can't help myself :)).

I also noticed on DeskBro that navigation disappears. You need to allow people to navigate backwards and forwards with ease. Don't force them to rely on the 'back' button because it creates a bad impression.

Most of the above comments apply to all your pages.

One final thing - I think it would automatically look better if you used a sans serif font.

:)

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Sualdam

Hi Sualdam. Thanks for the reply. I have been chastised for having poor quality graphics in the past and as always it is a balance between looking good and file size. I'll take a look and see if there is anything I can do with them. I'll also take a look at the navigation. Thanks again.

Nick

Spot the difference:

21kb <--> 2kb

18kb <--> 3kb

11kb <--> 2kb

Part of the problem is that you had resized bigger images using HTML - so you load a big picture with more kb and then display it squeezed smaller. Why not make it small by throwing away redundant data?

You'd also squashed them - changed the dimension in the x axis by more than you did in the y-axis. Always prepare images outside your page the way you want them to appear.

The desk was a JPG which, with solid blocks of colour, won't compress very well. I converted it to GIF 32 colour (16 colour was smaller still and you could have gotten away with it).

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Sualdam

Mmmm I see what you mean. I'll investigate. Thanks.

Nick