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Old April 18th, 2005, 10:13 PM
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Hi,
Our team has just launched a new site:
http://www.eclickchat.com

Because right now it is only in Chinese version, would you please give some advice on the design and the style?

Thank you.

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Alex

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Old April 18th, 2005, 11:03 PM
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Load time is incredibly long, even on my 3.5Mbps cable connection.

Colors and layout are fine.

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Old April 19th, 2005, 09:17 AM
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Took long to load here too. I'm not sure why, could just be where you're hosting it.
You should make your links different colors than the rest of the text though. You have two link on the right side that nobody would know are links unless they rolled over them.

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You really have to work on that load time. You'll loose quite a few visitors to a white screen loading with this setup. It looks like some of your pictures are over the 5mb mark, which is the danger zone and should be avoided at all costs. Individually they're alright, though when your page is chuck full of them as yours is it's going to be a symphony of impending impatience.


What I did see was pretty cleanly designed. I like the colored silhoutte you've used. Graphics look nice.

I'd also suggest bringing more attention to the links as mentioned above. It's probahly not a problem if you can read the text knowing what they are, but since it's in another language that's a bit hard.

G'luck.

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Try this speed report. It's going to load slow, because it downloads your site and analyzes it first. But wait it out. It gives some good suggestions.

The most important part is that they recommend no more 30k worth of pictures. You have about 69k.

They'll give you download times for different connection speeds as well.
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Thanks to all.
I really appreciate your reviews.
I am sure I will follow your advice because it is really valuable for me.
And I think I take your advice and make the site better, this is the right way to express my appreciation.

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