Site: Cyprus Guide

hello there, this is my first post. By the way very nice forum.

I have the web site (travel/holiday site about Cyprus) http://www.thecyprusguide.net and i want to hear your opinions about the design/content.

Not bad to be honest (design wise), you should think about upgrading to a tableless structure (XHTML, CSS). The navigation took a good 5 seconds to load up properly, which is pretty bad.

Apart from that good luck with the site.

Originally Posted by iamAdam Not bad to be honest (design wise), you should think about upgrading to a tableless structure (XHTML, CSS). The navigation took a good 5 seconds to load up properly, which is pretty bad. Apart from that good luck with the site.

thanks, it is difficult for me to make a tableless design because it will take me a lot of time,but i want to target on the quality of the site.

One of the main qualities of a website is the time it takes load. Using tables, slows it down, larger images also slows it down aswell. Images on a site should be optimized to load fast for people with 56k modems, and yes, people do still have these.

I'm on a 4mb connection, and it took over 5 seconds to loads the navigation after everything else. For slower modems especially 56k, what would happen if the visitor never even saw the navigation, due to load time-out?

There are many people here who can code xhtml/css, I would definately think about looking for someone to do it. If you coded this yourself, i'm not here to put you down or anything, just here to put you in the right track and I hope you can understand that.

Now I know that you wanted opinions on the design and its content etc, so I will give that, but the above should be a new priority for you.

Oh and by the way, just noticed.. in the code there is a rediculous amount of spacing.

Moving on, the sidebars etc are great, nothing more to comment on about them.

For the main content, I would center the googleads below the search. Then add more padding recent 2 articles.

But like I said in my first post, its not a bad site, just needs a few adjustments. But i will say it again, upgrading to a tableless structure would be beneficial.

thanks "iamAdam", your comments really helps me.