http://www.sestrims.com <--my site

hey guys. a lot of my customers tell me they love the design of the site but a few have told me its a little slow. im thinking it could be the menu on top, something in the coding, or maybe even my host server. i appreciate all the advice i can get. i put a small script which disables right clicking but you can see the code through this link http://www.submitexpress.com/snooper/ in case you didnt already know. thanks a lot guys

This site has a fatal flaw on the home page that apparently made it unusable on the first two browsers I looked at it in (i.e. Firefox and Netscape 7). In Firefox I'm only seeing half of the main picture of a car. (Sometimes when I move my mouse the lower half of the car flickers into place, then goes away.) In Netscape I'm not seeing that main picture at all, and I'm also not seeing the navigation buttons that should be at the top of the page. I don't think you're safe to assume that everyone has an adequately modern Flash viewer... sites shouldn't look broken when Flash movies fail to play!

I did a quick validation check and found 21 HTML errors... I'd strongly suggest you start troubleshooting by fixing all of them. You can get a report here: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos....sestrims.com/

The pulldown menus are way, way too slow... The way they open and close is an obnoxious gimmick, and I don't believe it adds any value to users at all. It certainly doesn't make crawling your site any easier for search engine spiders. IMHO, there are much better ways to do pull down menus. (Google "CSS hover" and you should find some clues.)

I understand why you've disabled right-clicking, but I think it's a mistake. Anyone halfway sophisticated who really wants your pictures will only be slowed down for a few seconds. What you've mostly accomplished is discouraging people from pasting free advertisements for your products in online bulletin boards. (You could be more clever... for example, consider putting a credit/copyright line across the bottom of every image, and where you don't want to display the credit/copyright line just layer another image over it. If someone swipes your image, the copyright line will travel with it.)

I clicked on your site-map link, and I have to say that page is particularly well done. You obviously have a strong sense of style and competance in that area... The best advice I can give you is to give up on Flash or at least implement something that will work when Flash doesn't.

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I am using IE7 to view. So far it does not show slowness in loading (I am using broadband). I like the design and overall look. It is neat and presentable. Your sitemap is pretty detailed. All I can say is it's impressive.

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Yes. looks good. bit slow, but from this desk everything is slow.

My initial thought is that any serious potential buyer will have a particular car that they own or about to buy in mind. . I think the first thing I would do is try to get them to 'that car' section as soon as possible.

If I had a late model Chevrolet I wanted to personalize . . what link do I click on your main page?
Gallery, that does not do it for me. I think 'Find your car' should be the minimum.

A lot of web users are not going to be intuitive. . especially those that spend more time with their cars than looking at web programs.

Site look good . .

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To make your site faster. Do these things.
1. Your image background is 87kb. That's way too big. Background image should be less than 1kb or less.
2. Move all styles to external stylesheet page.
3. Move all Javascripts to external Javascript page.
4. Your footer area is flash. No need for that.
5. Your main flash delays everything.
6. Try to code your site with div tags.

Hope that helps you out.

Sam

Firstly, you don't need snooper to see the code. Just use Opera. Right click disabled rarely works on this browser. In any case, it is a reasonably simple matter just to save the page and view in any web editor.

To the matter in hand. Striking looking site.
However,Flash element doesn't appear at all in FF2 and in Opera only half appears (as our earlier contributor)

Your coding is a mixture of doctypes but don't think that will necessarily hinder its operation. The remainder of the errors relate to the flash embed.

The guys at alistapart.com have a neat answer to that. Any (small) flash element that I have validates.

On the look and feel, on my system, the content is below he fold and all I really see is a humungous car with no notion as to what the site is actually promoting/selling - now that I think about it the Flash movie doesn't do anything but sit there with one image.

Not sure what all the fuss is over the sitemap. Seems fairly bog standard to me. How about some small thumbnails next to the relevant vehicles.

i agree that the background image is too large (not sure how that will look in a large res monitor)
Also agree that all the javascript/css should be off page (this kinda basic) and I would prefer to see a simple site like this built without tables.

To end with a positive. I think the elements are in place to make a really punchy site and if you address the issues that the others have raised it should be quick and easy to use too.

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The site looks great from here. No problem loading. I am on 384Kbps DSL so maybe that did the trick.

Your choice of metallic grey is very appealing to the eye and I think matches your concept.

The only thing I think that is not good is the text extending on the edge of the table. If you can fix this, this will look very professional to me.

Hope this helps.

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I am on 6 Mbps and it is still doesn't load.
Nothing to do with speed of connection - there is an error in the code.

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