Critique on my website

[dougsturgess]

I would be glad to have any comments/critiques on my new website, www.dougsturgess.com , specifically regarding overall look, functionality, navigation...

Thanks.

[Sp00ks]

Very nice, it's different and I like that but load times are horrendous and I have a 5mb pipe. You have basically cut your audience down to those that are very patient or have massive bandwidth to spare. I would never wait for the site to load on dialup or probably even a 1.5mb connection.

Functionality and navigation are good. The only other thing that bothered me was when the images zoomed in, they looked a tad shwimmy. (thats a technical term)

I'm not dogging your site because I think it is very creative and I do like it. I just think you need to cut some overhead so it loads faster.

[hommedars]

Nice design but very very slow to load. Even with DSL, I did not have the patience to wait for the images to load on each page.

[dougsturgess]

Thanks for the comments so far. So far I've viewed the site at home (Comcast cable), work & through Wifi and it has loaded fast. I just deleted my temporary files & it loaded just as fast. I'm not sure why it is loading slow for you but that's something to consider.

[sugbo]

Hi Doug,

I would have to second most of the comments here. Nice design but loading times are very long. I am on broadband and it really seems to take a long time. Internet users are an impatient bunch.

[Billo78]

I echo what everyone else says. Also when I went to look in Human Earth it wouldn't let me as I didn't have a password. Other photos were taking 30 seconds to download so I saw maybe 1 of your shots in 2 minutes of looking around, not ideal.

[eigga]

Great site! I did not experience any load time issues. Great pictures as well!

[Grumbledook]

its very slow and the nav is annoying

looks nice but i found it awkward to use