Thread: new designed website

my url is www.northlondonriderz.co.uk i have redesigned my home page,let me know what you think please.
thank you

Your index page looks slightly too short to accommodate the graphics.

You should give your pages a title, it is one of the most important factors for search engines.

Your 'about us' page is not centred.

The list down the left hand side looks like a list of links but they are not click-able.

Your gallery takes too long to load up.

Your navigation menu has items missing from it depending upon which page the visitor is looking at - I suspect that is deliberate but it would make more sense to have the entire menu on all of the pages.

I think overall it looks pretty good. A couple notes:

Check your spelling, punctuation and grammar. In many places when you add punctuation there is not a space between that and the next word. Also there are several places where you should be using capital letters for names. Since North London Riderz is you organization name it should always be capitalized.

I would correct the wording for your NARA add. If it 's really important to you, then it's important that your message is clear and understandable. It may help to read it out loud or have someone else read it to make sure that the message you are trying to convey comes across the way you want it to.

Images need to be resized so that they display correctly and are not too large. There are a few that appear squished because you are having the browser resize them to fit. There are a few gallery pictures that are very large and take a while to load even with my high speed connection.

If you are going to center pages you need to center all of them so it is consistent.

I think your forum looks great, I like the color scheme but be aware that having a dark background like that makes your font color choices very important because it can be hard for some people to read.

i have changed the look again on the homepage,but need to look at the gallery as it takes to long in loading.maybe i'll try a gif photo album which i think will be better for browsers.The N.A.R.A. add will have a page of it's own explaining the charity in more depth.

Hi There,

Your nav buttons are kind of hard to read for old and tired eyes...lol

i'll make sure my nav buttons can be read by old and tired eyes...lol
other than that is the homepage ok?

Wow, that's quite a change. I almost didn't recognize it. I like the new buttons, they are much easier to read. The graphic is pretty neat too.

With the ads at the top of your page a good deal of your content is not viewable without scrolling down. I'm not sure if that's a requirement of you advertisers or not but you shouldn't be sacrificing your information for a few ads. After all you want people to look at your content too.

The scrolling text is a little hard to read and I personally find it distracting. I think though if you move the "To Advertise..." text to the bottom of the page more of your image will be visible. You may even consider replacing that with a link somewhere on your page.

Your ad for Car Audio Plus is not a link so you may want to double check it.

thanks for the info,some good tips there i'll do them as soon as i can.i'm glad you like the new style

Hi, ditto with the comments on the images & gallery. Takes a good 30seconds to load the gallery page. Changing to gif won’t make any difference & may make the images look bad. Best bet is to resize correctly & use another image program if you need a quick loading page. The light box is for the occasional few images on a page & not a gallery.
The other alternative is using a freebie like http://www.picturetrail.com/

Good luck.

Hi what might be useful for you is that when someone clicks on your adverts, it displays in a new window. This way your site is always in the background and your visitor can return to your site easily.

Nice looking site

Darren