Website critique?

[mandyatm]

Looks much better!

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by statichash

My point exactly. The free sites add images and elements that can be a distraction. To a novice, building a website isn't easy.

You've missed my point though.
You said that the OP should get a website professionally done because of ads.
My point is that you don't need to get a professionally done site to get rid of ads. Just getting rid of ads (even if you use a preset layout) is enough.

[statichash]

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

Yes and no. You don't need to have the site professionally made, but you should have the site properly hosted (ie not on a free hosted like Wix) because most put their name and logo all over the place.

Well if you want to get technical - Your two comments do not imply the same thing. Your first comment doesn't mention anything about getting it professionally done to get rid of the ads and nor did mine.

I simply gave a suggestion that the OP consider having it built professionally not that she should get it done by a professional as you implied. However seeing how the OP has stated what her plans are anyway - I guess both our points are moot. How 'bout we shake on it and go have a beer. :]

Cheers!

[idcrewdawg]

I have a fairly good connection, and I thought the site took too long to load. As a user, if I were to come across the site, I wouldn't wait for the page to load. Other than that, the arrangement looks good, except for the details page. Font size is maybe one or two points too small.

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by statichash

Well if you want to get technical - Your two comments do not imply the same thing. Your first comment doesn't mention anything about getting it professionally done to get rid of the ads and nor did mine

oh?

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

Yes and no. You don't need to have the site professionally made, but you should have the site properly hosted (ie not on a free hosted like Wix) because most put their name and logo all over the place.

I'm pretty sure that's me mentioning something about getting things professionally done.

[statichash]

@Osmosis ... *sigh*

Audrey, One thing you can do to possibly speed up page load is to re-size the images, you can do this either use Photoshop, Lightroom, or even some free tools, one that I like to use is Easy Thumbnails by Fookes Software. In the settings pane you can set the size that you want to re-size the image to, for instance if you have an image that is 5000x5000, you can re-size it to say a 640x480 image (which is faster to download).

Cheers!