While you're at it...
Originally Posted by
M_Beorn
Has anyone had issues loading the Hose page from the Skye Highland Outfitters web site? It appears that something in the page causes my computer to load tons of memory and slugs it down. I've talked to Josh and he's aware of some issues and plans on getting things updated. I was just wondering if the problem I have is duplicated with anyone else.
Originally Posted by
fluter
Josh, I must agree with Rex. that is a very graphics-intensive presentation. If I'm not mistaken, even the text blocks are graphics, and there are something like 100 images involved. Your Web designer was just having a little too much fun, in my considered opinion.
Take Einstein's advice: Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
The Firefox browser on a modest modern notebook handles it OK (but it takes a minute or so to load). Internet Exploder on the same box seems to do fairly well, too.
As a graphic artist can I recommend also getting rid of all the yellow copy with red outline, or at least minimising it to your headers? (ACK! MY EYES! MY EYES!) And PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE make your body copy proper upper and lower case! All caps is hard on the reader, not to mention Copperplate being a poor font for paragraph text- it really should only be used as a title font. Having your body copy as an image versus live text is also very bad for both download time as well as searchability- it hampers search engines from finding you!
Last but not least, and this is somewhat subjective, as a purveyor of typically high end merchandise, you might consider shifting away from a design that screams "used car salesman" (see "red and yellow text" above)... but that's just my twa hae'pennys.
The good news is, I've seen worse, and I'm not even gonna charge for a consultation fee! 
(yeah, yeah I know... fewer bad jokes = more business).
Here's tae us, Whas like us... Deil the Yin!
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