Site review, please be as brutal as possible!

[paulsra +]

my design skills are poor, to say the least, and iv had no help with the layout or appearance of this site so all feedback will be very much appreciated.

hopefully i will be activly selling my adspace starting by cold calling bike stores in melbourne, Vic . any advice here would be great too!!

thanks everyone
Paul

www.useddirtbikes.com.au

[paulsra +]

40 views, no responses! come on guys, just a quick browse?

[racingjon +]

Looks good to me. I would recommend the Friendly URL mod before you start adding listings. You might want to check out what your site looks like in different browsers to see if there are any final design tweaks needed: http://browsershots.org/

[Lhotch +]

I took a peek and it looks good to me but didnt stick around long. The initial page load took almost 30 seconds to load(on hgh speed connection), waaay to long. Granted im in the US and you half way around the world, but most people arent going to wait for sites that take a long time to load.

[Maffo +]

It looks good to me but I echo what Larry says, it loads really slow for me as well.

[Chaslie +]

I took a peek and it looks good to me but didnt stick around long. The initial page load took almost 30 seconds to load(on hgh speed connection), waaay to long. Granted im in the US and you half way around the world, but most people arent going to wait for sites that take a long time to load.

Same here and I am 'in' Australia (South West Victoria). Did a tracert and after 20 hops, kept timing out. Suggest ditch the 'wiredplanet' server and get onto a commercial hosting service.

[pauljr +]

I echo the really slow from Alabama but design looks good.

[cheesegrits]

I find the contrast isn't high enough on the left side nav menus. Darkish grey on black. Not so good for tired old eyes like mine.

Although I guess if you can't read the website you probably shouldn't be tearing around on dirtbikes anyway.

-- hugh

[lomac05 +]

I thought it was very good; The question is how will you draw visitors to your site? Once you can answer this selling ad space should be fairly easy based on the number of visitors. One suggestion may be add a counter.

[cwp +]

One thing nobody mentioned is that it has some problems on the main page with the fierfox browser. I'm not sure if anyone uses Firefox here but I have been for the past several years. You may want to download it and view your web page with it. And yes, the page loads slow for me too.. I'm in America - DSL connection.